Most of the informed have already seen this list but just to stake it down one more time for those in the back of the class.
1. Oil rig owner has made $270 million off the oil leak
2. BP has a terrible safety record
3. Oil spills are just a cost of doing business for BP
4. The Interior Department was at best, neglectful, and at worst, complicit
5. Clean-up prospects are dismal
6. BP has no real cleanup plan
7. Both Transocean and BP are trying to take away survivors' right to sue
8. BP bets on risk to employees to save money -- and doesn't care if they get sick
9. Environmental damage could even include a climatological catastrophe
10. No one knows what to do and it will happen again
Here's the reality of the matter -- for as long as offshore drilling is legal, oil spills will happen. Coastlines will be decimated, oceans destroyed, economies ruined, lives lost. Oil companies have little to no incentive to prevent such disasters from happening, and they use their money to buy government regulators' integrity.
Deepwater Horizon is not an anomaly -- it's the norm.
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