I like to think that anything that Tony Hayward says is wrong. It's wrong because he's clueless, or it's wrong because he's lying. Either way, if Hayward said it, it's wrong.
Back when the well exploded, on Earth Day nonetheless, I don't think that anyone could have foretold that the well would spew oil into the ocean for 4 months. I think we all thought that there were expensive and state of the art safeguards in place to keep oil from just spewing into the ocean.
No way anyone thought that oil would flow unfettered into the ocean for as long as it did.
Indeed, there were safeguards, it's just that BP ignored them, or had a government issued waiver to ignore them.
Ultimately, a company like BP, or any other company for that matter, is in the business of making money. BP makes money by cheaply extracting as much oil from the ground as possible, processing it and then selling that oil for as much profit as possible. The environment be damned.
My question is this: Now what?
What do we do now? Are we just supposed to go on about our day like nothing happened? Are we supposed to ignore the 22 mile long plume of oil 3000 feet beneath the surface?
Chances are, we will go on with our lives as if nothing happened in the gulf. Except that I have that stupid Blue Sky Mine song by Midnight Oil stuck in my head.
