Weathered oil from a leaking pipeline that resulted from last week's explosion and collapse of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig is seen on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico near the coast of Louisiana Tuesday, April 27, 2010. (AP Photo/Patrick Semansky)This entire fiasco has brought me to tears.
"Exxon loves to turn its responsibility for the Exxon Valdez disaster into self-sacrificing PR. The company says it paid $3.5 billion in cleanup costs over the years. It did. But amortized over those years, it amounts to $175 million a year. Exxon made that much money in profits in 33 hours in 2008, when it recorded more profit ($45 billion) than what it cost us taxpayers to fight the war in Afghanistan that entire year. Get ready for similar PR from BP even as our beaches soak up the crude and our state treasuries get soaked by the resulting costs."
- Flagler Live editor, Pierre Tristam, in "We need drilling. Just not where you think."
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