BP facing financial crisis over Deepwater Horizon compensation; begs David Cameron to make it stop - Polidicks

[QUOTE=kebab52;40665086]Yeah because fuck their thousands of employee's and the thousands of employee's of companies that rely on BP's business.[/QUOTE] It isn't like BP would suddenly disappear and every single employee would be jobless. They'd probably just get absorbed by some other company. There'd be some layoffs, for sure, but it isn't like every single BP employee/affiliate would suddenly be unemployed.

BP complaining that they're going to be poor because they're required to pay compensations?

Go cry about it BP.

[QUOTE=Led Zeppelin;40665718]It isn't like BP would suddenly disappear and every single employee would be jobless. They'd probably just get absorbed by some other company. There'd be some layoffs, for sure, but it isn't like every single BP employee/affiliate would suddenly be unemployed.[/QUOTE] Yeah but there's no guarantee is there. Losing one of the biggest oil and gas companies would have a catastrophic effect on the oil and gas industry as a whole. Subsea surveying companies, recruitment agencies, loss of a substantial amount of scholarship money, rig construction companies to name a few.

[QUOTE=JeanLuc761;40665327]You're well-intentioned, but the issue is far more complex than that. What about manufacturing? What about people commuting to work and school? What about tourism? What about airplane travel? What about road maintenance? What about home heating in areas that don't have a viable alternative? There's so much that oil is a part of. I agree wholeheartedly that we need to get off our near-total dependence on it, but if a huge chunk of the oil industry crashed tomorrow and prices skyrocketed...we'd be in a lot of trouble.[/QUOTE] That's the problem with becoming dependant on stuff like this; if the oil industry crashes then we end up with less plastic, but if we keep indulging the activities of negligent corporations we are essentially bending over and accepting their bullshit which is detrimental to humanity. Humanity has blindly fucked itself into a corner, and we need to invest in stuff that massively reduces our dependence on fuels that poison the earth. For one thing, we already have bioplastics, which can be created using renewable biomass, and biofuels are coming into their own as well. But one of the sad things is that the oil barons will probably get scared and try to justify their existences so that we still need them, pulling strings and swinging opinion in the places that matter. Still, a temporary future of squalor and poverty followed by a brighter age of health and wellbeing is better than a temporary future of decadence and imbalance followed by a permanent dark future of squalor, poverty, chaos and potential extinction. Humanity has already buggered itself over a treestump, and the only thing we can do now is apply soothing cream and try to stop things from going too far south; things are destined to go south in the next few decades, but we can at least prevent things from going super-south.

Unfortunetly if BP crash then expect other oil giants to reap in opportunity of short supply. There is no winning in reality here for anyone, but it is true that compensation is deserved.

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[QUOTE=ironman17;40666851]That's the problem with becoming dependant on stuff like this; if the oil industry crashes then we end up with less plastic, but if we keep indulging the activities of negligent corporations we are essentially bending over and accepting their bullshit which is detrimental to humanity. Humanity has blindly fucked itself into a corner, and we need to invest in stuff that massively reduces our dependence on fuels that poison the earth. For one thing, we already have bioplastics, which can be created using renewable biomass, and biofuels are coming into their own as well. But one of the sad things is that the oil barons will probably get scared and try to justify their existences so that we still need them, pulling strings and swinging opinion in the places that matter. Still, a temporary future of squalor and poverty followed by a brighter age of health and wellbeing is better than a temporary future of decadence and imbalance followed by a permanent dark future of squalor, poverty, chaos and potential extinction. Humanity has already buggered itself over a treestump, and the only thing we can do now is apply soothing cream and try to stop things from going too far south; things are destined to go south in the next few decades, but we can at least prevent things from going super-south.[/QUOTE] Oil won't suddenly vanish and cause civilization to collapse though.

[QUOTE=ironman17;40664908]Let those bastards crash and burn; one less barony of oil in the world.[/QUOTE] So a different existing oil company will just take over whatever BP controlled. That's for the worse, not the better.

They're also not helping themselves by being the most expensive petrol station around. I always see their stations empty.

[QUOTE=rhx123;40665198]And so they should, but they shouldn't have to take responsibility for things that [I]weren't[/I] their actions.[/QUOTE] I think the problem is the indirect effects of the oil spill. Where do you draw the line on claims? Like say small business owners that suffered due to a decrease in tourism from the spill. The effects of the spill are far reaching.

Fuck off BP. You fucked up the earth, now pay for it. A second fuck off to all Oil companies as gas just shot up $.50 over night to over $4/gal where I live.