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BP says the Gulf is back to normal.... (Original Post) Playinghardball Jun 2014 OP
BP has ZERO credibility with me! Just another BP PR campaign. The BS runs wild with BP. n/t RKP5637 Jun 2014 #1
Of course they do. Tetris_Iguana Jun 2014 #2
Well, who are you going to believe? gratuitous Jun 2014 #3
rec! SammyWinstonJack Jun 2014 #4
BP (Busted Pipe) is one of the most corrupt oil companies. Archae Jun 2014 #5
BP today is like Exxon a quarter-century ago. Utterly without credibility, and guilty of crimes nomorenomore08 Jun 2014 #7
I think we should get BP to declare the poor to be rich and the sick to be well. Thinkingabout Jun 2014 #6
BP was put in charge Unknown Beatle Jun 2014 #8
Unknown Beatle, some of us have Enthusiast Jun 2014 #10
I know what you're saying, Enthusiast. I don't like that little crawling creepy japple Jun 2014 #14
* L0oniX Jun 2014 #16
Yep, that one. japple Jun 2014 #17
>:-] L0oniX Jun 2014 #20
BP is just another predatory corporation. Enthusiast Jun 2014 #9
Earlier this week a large tar mat washed up Grammy23 Jun 2014 #11
BP says that? AngryDem001 Jun 2014 #12
BP was back to normal right away. Lying and dumping poison to improve the optics. In the short term. Overseas Jun 2014 #13
Maybe they should put some of their people in congress since they are good liars. L0oniX Jun 2014 #15
Nah, they already own a few congress-critters lastlib Jun 2014 #18
It looks normal if you're playing that video game "Fallout" Uncle Joe Jun 2014 #19
and the sun rises in the north. niyad Jun 2014 #21
Actually this time of year, it just doesn't set......... raven mad Jun 2014 #23
Remember 1989? Exxon Valdez? raven mad Jun 2014 #22
I don't care what their propaganda is HeiressofBickworth Jun 2014 #24

gratuitous

(82,849 posts)
3. Well, who are you going to believe?
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:42 PM
Jun 2014

The company that brought all this death and destruction or your lying eyes? Get with the program. It's all back to normal, and normal is whatever BP says is normal, or you're denying them their free speech rights.

Archae

(46,327 posts)
5. BP (Busted Pipe) is one of the most corrupt oil companies.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:45 PM
Jun 2014

Wasn't it their gasoline pipe that ruptured, spraying a whole neighborhood with gasoline that blew up, killing two boys?

nomorenomore08

(13,324 posts)
7. BP today is like Exxon a quarter-century ago. Utterly without credibility, and guilty of crimes
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:04 PM
Jun 2014

against humanity/nature which they refuse to own up to.

Thinkingabout

(30,058 posts)
6. I think we should get BP to declare the poor to be rich and the sick to be well.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 07:46 PM
Jun 2014

The problem is not solved, BP should be putting the money into helping clean up and restore the gulf coast rather than advertising how something which just isn't true.

Unknown Beatle

(2,672 posts)
8. BP was put in charge
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:14 PM
Jun 2014

of policing themselves during the Gulf Coast cleanup and it hired thugs to patrol and run people off who were photographing the scene. They even had a no-fly zone over the affected areas.

What really pissed me off though, was when Obama staged a photo-op swimming in the gulf of Florida and declaring that the Gulf Coast water was safe.

japple

(9,825 posts)
14. I know what you're saying, Enthusiast. I don't like that little crawling creepy
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:39 PM
Jun 2014

bug that someone else has on their profile. It creeps me out and I want to swat it every time I see it.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
9. BP is just another predatory corporation.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:19 PM
Jun 2014

Despite all their propaganda to the contrary, most people do not think of BP as a benevolent entity. More like a malevolent entity. And rightly so.

Grammy23

(5,810 posts)
11. Earlier this week a large tar mat washed up
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:44 PM
Jun 2014

at Ft. Pickens on Santa Rosa Island (near Pensacola, FL). This, after we have been told repeatedly that the oil is "all gone" and everything is fine, back to normal. Yet, they continue to find these tar mats and tar balls that wash up pretty regularly. Testing will be done on this tar mat to determine if it's from the April 2010 accident but I have no doubt what the tests will show. It is disgusting to keep telling us that it's all fine and dandy when we know for a fact that clean up crews are out there pretty regularly to hastily scoop up the tar so that the beaches appear to be clean.

And as if their lies are not insult enough, now they are running those despicable commercials boasting that when BP works in Alaska, they put people to work all over the US. Yeah, they do. Cleaning up oil spills and their aftermath, like tar mats and tar balls.

AngryDem001

(684 posts)
12. BP says that?
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 08:56 PM
Jun 2014

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!!!

It will take DECADES for the gulf to return to normal!

If not centuries...

Overseas

(12,121 posts)
13. BP was back to normal right away. Lying and dumping poison to improve the optics. In the short term.
Thu Jun 26, 2014, 09:19 PM
Jun 2014

While network TV cameras were rolling.

They continued to spend millions lobbying to protect their longer term interests, as they always have.

raven mad

(4,940 posts)
22. Remember 1989? Exxon Valdez?
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 03:01 AM
Jun 2014

C'mon up - they do whatever the FUCK they want. Period. And it won't change till we make it change! A great, wonderful friend lives in your area - and is begging for help. I hope you get it and not the way they did here! I despise Big Oil!! (Yeah, you can watch me cleaning ducks, otters, seals......... that is NOT what I want for a legacy - in 1989......)

HeiressofBickworth

(2,682 posts)
24. I don't care what their propaganda is
Fri Jun 27, 2014, 05:26 AM
Jun 2014

I will NEVER eat anything that came out of the Gulf. The oil tar is layered on the bottom of the Gulf and the water has been treated with millions of gallons of Corexit which is outlawed in Europe as a carcinogen. The liars don't care what happens to your insides -- by the time you get cancer, they will demand proof it was from the spill and good luck with that. Best to avoid anything coming from the Gulf area.

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