This post supported by a grant from the Patty Dumpling Endowed Chair for coverage of oil spills, oil industry nastiness, and coastal sliming. So here's the good news about Tuesday's oil spill in Santa Barbara County, California: It's nothing compared to the
Here's a great local article about the hoops the company went through to not be regulated. Plus the area is mess of overlapping county/city/federal land and agencies:http://www.independent.com/...
I still work on equipment that had a design life of twenty years or so, and with regular care and feeding is still going strong thirty and forty years on.
Much of the stuff made in the last decade or two goes toes up fairly quickly and isn't worth the labor cost to repair.
What a quandary Mitt would be placed in....or maybe not. He's not running again(probably) but then again he's probably poor-fucking buddies with the oil company execs.
What? No! No wildlife was harmed. That's just a rare Ebon Pelican!
Sprinkle some arsenic on it, while you're at it. It occurs naturally in almonds!
I bet the executives draw straws to see who gets to pay the annual fines out of his bonus each year.
Ok
There were no reported injuries, but how many plankton were sacrificed? I really like those little guys!
Here's a great local article about the hoops the company went through to not be regulated. Plus the area is mess of overlapping county/city/federal land and agencies:http://www.independent.com/...
Ah, the good ol' days.
I still work on equipment that had a design life of twenty years or so, and with regular care and feeding is still going strong thirty and forty years on.
Much of the stuff made in the last decade or two goes toes up fairly quickly and isn't worth the labor cost to repair.
Then they'll laugh and skim it off of the hourly workers' benefits package.
Pat Roberson? Is that you?
2014 election results for Santa Barbara
U.S. Representative, 24th DistrictLois Capps(D): 75,307 (51.6%)Chris Mitchum(R): 70,673 (48.4%)
Measure P (Oil Drilling Ban)Yes: 30,732 (37.35%)No: 51,547 (62.65%)
http://www.independent.com/...
I'd like to see 100,000 barrels of oil wash up in Mitt Romney's backyard.
...Plains Pipeline, has a safety record to make Captain Joseph Hazelwood proud...
I'm taking bets on who the Rethuglicans choose to operate Keystone XL. Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?
What a quandary Mitt would be placed in....or maybe not. He's not running again(probably) but then again he's probably poor-fucking buddies with the oil company execs.
"You're our boy"
You know what we really need is less regulation so these companies can grow the economy pollute like crazy.
This one hits home as I spent countless days and nights camping at Refugio when I still lived in California.
One of my favorite places fouled, again.... I'm just fucking pissed.