Where is the common sense with the Gulf Oil Spill?

I sometimes just sit back here in my chair in absolute amazement as I watch people from all walks of life in this country burn out what is most precious to the body to control all functions - the brain. Folks, I'm talking about a lobotomy of common sense. To find victims of this mass infliction, all you need to do is turn on your radio, television or simply walk out your front door.

With this said, I think some things first need to be clarified about what is happening in and around our country right now.

The oil spill that originated in the Gulf of Mexico. It is not George W. Bush's fault, nor is it Barrack Obama's aka Barry Soetoro's fault. If one is going to place blame on anybody, it needs to be completely directed at BP (British Petroleum).

Here is an overview from 1993 to present of BP's problems:

BP, since 1993, has been having problems. Back in September of 1999, one of BP's US subsidiaries, BP Exploration Alaska; otherwise known as BPXA. committed to rectify issues conjoined with the illegal dumping of hazardous wastes on the Alaska North Slope for a whopping figure of $22 million dollars. The agreement that was settled on, included a maximum criminal fine of $500,000 dollars, civil penalties amounting to $6.5 million dollars, and BP’s establishment of a $15 million environmental management system at all of BP facilities in the US and Gulf of Mexico that are engaged in oil exploration, drilling or production. The charges stemmed from the 1993 to 1995 dumping of hazardous wastes on Endicott Island, Alaska by BP’s contractor Doyon Drilling. The firm criminally expelled waste oil, paint thinner and other toxic and hazardous substances by injecting them down the outer rim, or annuli, of the oil wells. BPXA failed to report the illegal injections when it learned of the conduct, in violation of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act.

In March of 2005, BP's Texas City, Texas refinery, one of its largest refineries, exploded causing 15 deaths, injuring 180 people and forcing thousands of nearby residents to remain sheltered in their homes. A large column filled with hydrocarbon overflowed to form a vapor cloud, which ignited. The explosion caused all the casualties and substantial damage to the rest of the plant. The incident came as the culmination of a series of less serious accidents at the refinery, and the engineering problems were not addressed by the management. Maintenance and safety at the plant had been cut as a cost-saving measure, the responsibility ultimately resting with executives in London. OSHA found "organizational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation" and said management failures could be traced from Texas to London.

The company pleaded guilty to a felony violation of the Clean Air Act, was fined $50 million, and sentenced to three years probation.

On October 30, 2009, the US Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) fined BP an additional $87 million — the largest fine in OSHA history — for failing to correct safety hazards revealed in the 2005 explosion. Inspectors found 270 safety violations that had been previously cited but not fixed and 439 new violations. BP is appealing that fine.

In July 2006 a worker was crushed between a pipe stack and mechanical lift.

In August of 2006, BP shut down oil operations in Prudhoe Bay, Alaska, due to corrosion in pipelines leading up to the Alaska Pipeline. The wells were leaking insulating agent called Arctic pack, consisting of crude oil and diesel fuel, between the wells and ice. BP had spilled over one million liters of oil in Alaska's North Slope.

Four BP energy traders in Houston were charged with manipulating prices of propane in October 2007. As part of the settlement of the case, BP paid the US government a $303 million fine, the largest commodity market settlement ever in the US. The settlement included a $125 million civil fine to the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, $100 million to the Justice Department, $53.3 million to a restitution fund for purchasers of the propane BP sold, and $25 million to a US Postal Service consumer fraud education fund.

In May 2010, the Supreme Court of Arbitration of the Russian Federation agreed in support of the country’s anti-monopoly service’s decision to a 1.1 billion Ruble fine ($35.2 million) against TNK/BP, a 50/50 joint venture, for abusing antitrust legislation and setting artificially high oil products prices in 2008, TNK and BP declined comment.

On May of 2007, the company announced another partial field shutdown owing to leaks of water at a separation plant. Their action was interpreted as another example of fallout from a decision to cut maintenance of the pipeline and associated facilities.

In June of 2007, a worker was electrocuted.

On 16 October 2007 Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation officials reported a toxic spill of methanol (methyl alcohol) at the Prudhoe Bay oil field managed by BP PLC. Nearly 2,000 gallons of mostly methanol, mixed with some crude oil and water, spilled onto a frozen tundra pond as well as a gravel pad from a pipeline.

In January of 2008, a worker was killed by a 500-pound piece of metal that came loose under high pressure and hit him.

On April 1 2009, a Bond Offshore Helicopters (Euro-copter AS332 Super Puma) ferrying workers from BP's platform in the Miller oilfield in the North Sea off Scotland crashed in good weather killing all 16 on board.

On April 20, 2010, a semi-submersible exploratory offshore drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico exploded after a blowout and sank two days later, killing eleven people and causing a massive oil spill threatening the coast of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Texas, and Florida. The rig is owned and operated by Trans-ocean Ltd on behalf of BP, which is the majority owner of the oil field.

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To date, the problem has yet to be resolved.

Now common sense applies here folks. The problems all route back to the CEO's and other decision makers who are employed by BP. Past and present Presidents did not cause these violations against humanity to happen. Greedy and unconcerned mongrels seeking to fill their pockets are the cause. A good criminal is one who will say in court, "yes we will fix this problem and pay the fines and costs involved", only to walk out the door, laugh and never turn back.

As for the hundreds, if not thousands of folks who have been put out of work due to this latest catastrophe, they should begin a class action suit against BP for lost wages, along with any suffrage's for loss of home, place of work, loss or damage of equipment, etc.

I believe also that if any company such as BP does not want to correct the issues within a 30 day period of the time they are found non-compliant, then all personnel should be ordered off the rig and the rig should be shut down without compensation pay to the corporate heads only, and the workers that are forced out of work, paid handsomely while they seek work elsewhere.

But for Heaven sake.... let's use that God given common sense that the good Lord gave us and stop blaming every other person on earth for the failure to do their job by BP.