Gulf oil spill

[bassin_bug]

Environmentally speaking...this is a very VERY sad time.

It's also a VERY sad time for the families of the 12 workers who were lost and now the Gulf is their eternal grave. Nobody in the news business even mentions them and I have never even read the list of names. Working offshore is how most of the people in my home community make their living. Several years ago a hurricane flipped a rig and killed my first cousin and it took two weeks to find and recover his body from under a load of pipe. Another time I lost a friend when a pipe got loose and knocked him off the platform. He had just graduated high school and that was his first job. I know lots of sad stories like that but the oil companies, like the coal mines, seem to have taken the attitude that it's just the price of doing business. jmo

[Big Gills]

Thats a very good point Bugs cuz I had no idea that anyone lost their life in this incident. I heard there was an explosion but the news never mentioned that anyone died. It has been only about the oil spill and the threat to those states that border the Gulf. Yes the oil companies will always hide that sort of news. Its all about the almighty dollar to them.