The "5 hours away from the gulf for the nearest CP" comment comes as no surprise,
considering the other "opinions" I have read here on this thread.
But then, giving the benefit of the doubt and assuming that I am reading the google map wrong,
can someone give a lookie to the information I found in less than a minute on the net, and tell me
if this place is perhaps a bit closer than 5 hours away. (I am assuming one is driving and not walking, although again, I am not sure about the distance involved.)
Tarkiln Bayou Preserve State Park
12301 Gulf Beach Highway
Pensacola, Florida 32507
http://www.floridastateparks.org/tarkilnbayou/default.cfm
Tarkiln Bayou Preserve is home to four species of endangered pitcher plants, as well as other rare and endangered plant species. The rare, carnivorous white-top pitcher plant is unique to the Gulf Coast and found only between the Apalachicola and Mississippi rivers. Almost 100 other rare plants and animals depend on the wet prairie habitat, including the alligator snapping turtle, sweet pitcher plant, and Chapman's butterwort.
Wait a minute... we aren't referring to the distance as if from the exact position in the gulf where the "hole" spewing oil is, compared to the shoreline or the position of the State Preserve I list below, are we?
If so then yea, it would take me more than 5 hours to swim that distance! If that is what you are saying, then oops, I am sorry I misunderstood! I guess my brain doesn't work that way! I bet BP is looking for that sort of wisdom and could use more of that type of ingenious supervisors and managers on their payroll.
These viewpoints are of the sort that I am questioning and wondering about in the first place. Anyone here have relatives we don't know about that actually work for BP?
I really don't understand how someone who loves CP's, nature, animals, the environment, etc. can possibly defend and support the behavior of ANYONE involved in this
fiasco.
There is a difference also between the people who are at least trying to do SOME good and make regulations that may get companies to be at least somewhat responsible and reasonable in their actions, and the people and companies who blatantly take short cuts, payoffs, and especially unreasonable risks.
IF, as was brought up, that deep well drilling is a bad risk, then it should NOT have been done! Period! You can't blame the "save the world types" who stopped the shallow wells for your actions either. Get it changed! PROVE the needs and risks and costs. Don't just justify your reckless actions with "well they wouldn't let me drill where I wanted to, so I drilled where it was unsafe and where I had no means to prevent an accident (is that true?), and in a way that I could not correct/fix/stop an oil leak if one should occur! (Wait a minute.... that isn't the "save the world types" who cut corners or designed a drilling system that had no "off" valve right at its first basic part of the system! DUH! Who in their right mind drills a hole for oil, water or whatever without having a way to shut it off should an accident occur!
I can see who the business minded civilized people are here. To think that "the realities are that oil companies
must push into uncharted areas in attempts to locate new sources of oil" is a very narrow, tunnel vision of a viewpoint to take on things. The oil companies do what the oil companies want to do, unless held back by some political of financial means.
The only thing the oil companies MUST do, is make more money for themselves! (You really think they are doing this as a service to us all so we can drive our cars to work! Wow, they must be a bunch of self sacrificing saints!)
One thing that amazes me, is all the viewpoints that have come from this. I guess it verifies for me why I don't have a lot of friends or fit into a lot of "groups". But then, I kinda like that in view of what I see.
Good luck all! Gonna need it!
The oil is still spewing and the companies are drilling new holes for tomorrows "accidents"!