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[Leafsnail]

Looking at the stuff before it was dragged up, it's still not British Petroleum.  Although I guess "British Petroleum wrecked our sea" helps shift the blame better than "The American branch of a transnational company, which consists of European, British and American brands, wrecked our sea".

[Zangi]

Huzzah! Tiny sea creatures have saved us! (Maybe?)

Also, Alaskans and probably other northerners like the Canucks and Ruskies have fire under them...

[Aqizzar]

Since the rest of the Internet is doing it too, I thought it'd be a good idea, on the almost-eve of Earth Day, to remind folks that one year ago today was the rig-fire that put a hole in the bottom of the sea.

The drilling company Transocean had its own way of marking the occasion.  364 days without an accident is a pretty exemplary record, right?  Poor old BP managed to lose about $3.7billion over the year (about 1.4% of the company's total worth).  Tony Hayward himself will have to live the rest of his life in exile with a measly £600,000 a year pension.  At least our good buddies Halliburton are trucking right along.

Meanwhile, everybody with money in the game is ticked off that federal regulators haven't been moving fast enough and have only approved 11 new offshore drilling permits to compliment the 50,000 or so well-holes already in the Gulf.  Mostly, the BOEMRE seems to be a little busy making sure oil drillers will be cool with the new rules, which shouldn't be hard, since their primary source of safety consultation is the very impressive sounding Center for Offshore Safety, a new conglomerated lobbying firm paid for by the American Petroleum Institute.  So you know they know what they're talking about.  Oh, and don't worry about those blowout preventers, lab tests of the core design show they should work at least half the time.  Uh, ditto for the first new drilling permits being awarded to Noble Energy, whose ocean spill response plans date to 2009.

Let me leave you on this anniversary with the inspiring words of BP Chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg-

It’s like with an airline. If you’ve had one accident you can’t have another one, you need to keep a rock-solid focus on safety. But this is an industry that always will involve risk. ... It is a burdensome road to regain the trust of the American people. The U.S. is one of the countries reacting the loudest when something happens, but maybe also the fastest country to note when someone performs well.

[Levi]

Depressing, but not surprising.  Big money rules the US.

[RF]

Ultimately, the issue with modern society is that it's driven by money. People with money have more rights than everyone else, companies with money are impossible to beat etc etc.

It's disgusting and vile.

[RedKing]

Remember my comment about rage fatigue? You just made me pretty exhausted, buddy.

[Urist is dead tome]

It seems to be a fairly depressing milestone.

[Zangi]

And the world goes on like nothing happened.

[Urist is dead tome]

And the world goes on like nothing happened.

What happened?

[Earthquake Damage]

And the world goes on like nothing happened.

We're too busy watching the next shiny ball to care about the last one.

[Urist is dead tome]

And the world goes on like nothing happened.

We're too busy watching the next shiny ball to care about the last one.

I would watch the shiny ball if I were you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Orp1DcA0w

[Sergius]

And the world goes on like nothing happened.

We're too busy watching the next shiny ball to care about the last one.

I would watch the shiny ball if I were you.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88Orp1DcA0w

That ball only works on people who have strawberry jam instead of blood.

Maybe it'll work on those petroleum-filled pelicans...

[SalmonGod]

Don't even need to follow the links to understand business-as-usual :[

[ToonyMan]

Big evil money people, wahahahaa!!!  Stealing our cash, currency, dough, bucks, and dosh!  Wahahaaa!

[DrPoo]

I got a plan, we eat alot of mac-donalds, then we plug our assholes. And we keep eating untill the entire american population is actually as fat as everybody thinks they are, then we go to the spill, remove our plugs, and shit for our lives, then the boats sail away, you may ask, what would we do to escape? We have a gas-siphon glued to our ass to get all the methane, then we use it as fuel for some kind of methane rocket, then we fly to the moon and play norwegian black metal with the moon dwarves.

Am i late here?