Obama - BP Oil Spill Same As 9/11 - Inb4 The U.S. Invades The Nederlands - Polidicks

[url]http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10307782.stm[/url] [QUOTE]US President Barack Obama has said the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11. The disaster will "shape how we think about the environment... for years to come", he told US website Politico. Mr Obama has arrived in Mississippi on his fourth visit to the affected area. He will also visit Alabama and Florida. Directors of oil firm BP are meeting to decide whether to suspend dividends as company shares have taken a tumble. BP saw its shares fall by some 9% in afternoon trading in London. Earlier, BP said the cost of cleaning up the oil spillage had risen to $1.6bn (£1bn). BP placed a containment cap on its damaged oil well earlier this month; by last week, it was collecting about 15,000 barrels of oil a day. Continue reading the main story BBC special coverage graphic This week, the BBC is assessing the impact of the Louisiana oil spill. Correspondents in the US, the Gulf of Mexico, Brazil, Nigeria and London will be reporting for the BBC World Service, World News TV and the BBC News website. Full coverage of the oil disaster It is estimated that some 40,000 barrels (1.7 million gallons) of oil a day might have been gushing out before the well was capped. On Tuesday, Mr Obama will address the US about the oil spill from the White House in a prime-time televised speech. A presidential aide said he would outline the next steps his administration would be taking over the spill. Mr Obama had previously visited Louisiana on three occasions. In his Monday visit, he is going to the other states affected by the crisis - Alabama, Mississippi and Florida. The right lessons Mr Obama said the disaster would have a lasting impact on US environmental policy. "In the same way that our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy was shaped profoundly by 9/11, I think this disaster is going to shape how we think about the environment and energy for many years to come," he said in the Politico interview. Mr Obama vowed to "move forward in a bold way in a direction that finally gives us the kind of future-oriented… visionary energy policy that we so vitally need and has been absent for so long". "One of the biggest leadership challenges for me going forward is going to be to make sure that we draw the right lessons from this disaster," he said. Mr Obama said he could not predict whether the nation would make a complete transition from an oil-based economy within his lifetime, but added that "now is the time for us to start making that transition and investing in a new way of doing business when it comes to energy". "I have no idea what new energy sources are going to be available, what technologies might drive down the price of renewable energies," he said. "What we can predict is that the availability of fossil fuel is going to be diminishing; that it's going to get more expensive to recover; that there are going to be environmental costs that our children… our grandchildren and our great-grandchildren are going to have to bear.[/QUOTE] For you who don't get The Netherlands Bit in the Title, It's referring to Camp Zeist

Fucking British. [highlight](User was banned for this post ("Xenophobia" - SteveUK))[/highlight]

The British are coming!

I don't really get how it is as bad as 9/11 exactly.

[QUOTE=Emperorconor;22620090]I don't really get how it is as bad as 9/11 if it didn't kill loads of people and destroyed a few buildings.[/QUOTE] It was a giant biological disaster.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620058]Fucking British.[/QUOTE] uh, they had nothing to do with it.

[QUOTE=JDK721;22620234]uh, they had nothing to do with it.[/QUOTE] Exactly, they are doing nothing.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620288]Exactly, they are doing nothing.[/QUOTE] lol yeah, they can just clean it up overnight. do you even realize the magnitude of the situation

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620288]Exactly, they are doing nothing.[/QUOTE] stop.

[QUOTE=JDK721;22620304]lol yeah, they can just clean it up overnight. do you even realize the magnitude of the situation[/QUOTE] Any help is better than none.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620352]Any help is better than none.[/QUOTE] And its not like they are doing nothing.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;22620448]And its not like they are doing nothing.[/QUOTE] That's true.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620486]That's true.[/QUOTE] you just said they were doing nothing

[QUOTE=JDK721;22620533]you just said they were doing nothing[/QUOTE] Effectivly.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620566]Effectivly.[/QUOTE] Not true.

[QUOTE=HumanAbyss;22620756]Not true.[/QUOTE] So throwing garbage, or even nuking the damn hole seems like an effective way of thinking?

Now the US will invade Britain on the pretext of revenge, but everyone will know we're just trying to find some cheap healthcare.

Shut the fuck up

[QUOTE=Snuffy;22620805]Now the US will invade Britain on the pretext of revenge, but everyone will know we're just trying to find some cheap healthcare.[/QUOTE] nah they'll invade france

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620788]So throwing garbage, or even nuking the damn hole seems like an effective way of thinking?[/QUOTE] "Throwing garbage" is an over simplified definition. They were going to compress it into an improvised plug to help stop the leaking. And nuking the hole has worked for Russia, while I do not agree with it.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22620788]So throwing garbage, or even nuking the damn hole seems like an effective way of thinking?[/QUOTE] They cut the flow down some 60%. How is that doing nothing? Sure, they havent fixed it yet. That doesnt mean theyve done nothing.

It's like putting a bandaid on cancer.

I'll bet Obama's right. If we get off lucky enough this will be enough to give oil a bad name and expand alternative heating methods and hydrogen cars.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;22621063]"Throwing garbage" is an over simplified definition. They were going to compress it into an improvised plug to help stop the leaking. And nuking the hole has worked for Russia, while I do not agree with it.[/QUOTE] Yes, it did work for Russia. But it wasn't for an oil leak this large, or underwater at such a large depth.

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22621126]It's like putting a bandaid on cancer.[/QUOTE] are you dense or what?

THIS JUST IN... Al-Qaeda was behind the oil spill.

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;22621185]are you dense or what?[/QUOTE] [img]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v230/1043/66/n511236535_3008.jpg[/img]

[QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22621177]Yes, it did work for Russia. But it wasn't for an oil leak this large, or underwater at such a large depth.[/QUOTE] You really have no idea what you are talking about. [editline]07:30PM[/editline] [QUOTE=The_Lizard_Xing;22621217][img]http://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/v230/1043/66/n511236535_3008.jpg[/img][/QUOTE] I guess that answers my question.

Hi, just gonna leave this here. Its the makeup of BP share ownership. [URL]http://www.bp.com/liveassets/bp_internet/globalbp/STAGING/global_assets/other_graphics/charts/IC_beneficial_owners_375xvar.jpg[/URL]

[QUOTE=T2L_Goose;22621220]You really have no idea what you are talking about.[/QUOTE] Instead of making false accusations, why don't you try and contribute to this discussion?