It isnt the fact that it is nothing, but it is less damaging. There are large amounts of unrefined oil seeping into the ocean every day.

So you are saying it isnt relevant at all? That the chemical difference between the two has no impact?

Again I am taking a measured centrist position and you Enviromentalist apologists need to maintain the illusion of a great disaster!

I just want you to admit that all the claims that this was going to destroy the gulf and get Florida and maybe go up the Atlantic coast were just Enviromental extremist ranting...Again!

I am taking the position that the evidence suggests.

Swamp, you are taking the evidence that BP is giving us.  We have given you evidence given to us from the U of Georgia that is funded by the NOAA whom said that most of the oil is gone... Seems to me that your evidence might be slightly skewed being as it is obviously to the benefit of BP to downplay all risks and damages that this incident has caused.  Do the environmentalists directly profit from saying that the gulf oil spill is a major disaster?  Yes somewhat, in that they will hopefully get a few more donations, now does BP and all other oil companies benefit from downplaying it?  Hell yes, BP has lost billions and billions of dollars in revenue, their stock value, and in clean up costs.  The sooner that they can convince us that there is no more problems down there the sooner their stock rebounds and the sooner they can get back to building more oil platforms.  Lets use a brain here and realise that all BP cares about here is to increase profits, and to do that right now is to downplay the effects of their major f-up down there.

Good points, greeny.  Too bad they will fall on deaf ears with swampy; he seems to be more concerned about BPs profits than the harm done to people's way of making a living or the overall damage to the environment.

I have no concern about BPs profits at all.

What I am worried about is that every time something like this happens Enviromentalists get to claim that the world is coming to an end, and when it doesnt happen no one ever calls them on it!

It isnt BP saying there is no disaster, It is the Obama administration, BP and most of the scientific community.

Again no one is saying that there was no damage and there will not need to be a clean up, paid for by BP.

We just want the enviromentalists to stop crying wolf!

I think America is tired of being told lies by the radical enviromental movement.

So except for the "we" did you want to actually discuss any issues realted to the spill in a calm and logical way to arrive at the truth...didnt think you did.

Posted by swamphawk22 on 9/27/2010 6:05:00 PM (view original):
I have no concern about BPs profits at all.

What I am worried about is that every time something like this happens Enviromentalists get to claim that the world is coming to an end, and when it doesnt happen no one ever calls them on it!

It isnt BP saying there is no disaster, It is the Obama administration, BP and most of the scientific community.

Again no one is saying that there was no damage and there will not need to be a clean up, paid for by BP.

We just want the enviromentalists to stop crying wolf!

Environmentalists have to be a little louder, they need to keep spills like this in the public's mind because it's obvious the people we elected don't care enough about the environment to keep oil companies and other polluters of our air, water and land in check.

There's a growing backlash against science and technology lately and it is being spearheaded by the conservatives and tea-baggers.

How could you have cherry picked the hand full of articles that support you? Do you have Al Gore screening your reading material?

So the 24 people who block me are now a global consensus?

This is clearly not the disaster the radical enviromentalist movement declared it to be.

And all the objective people of the world can see that. Obama and I can see that!

Come on Swamp, have you personally gone down to the louisiana swamps to look at how much (or little) damage there really is?  Have you gone onto all those hundreds of miles of beaches and turned over the sand to see how dirty (or clean) it is?  Have you personally talked to the thousands of fishermen down there to see what their perspective is on whats happened there?  what, no?  thats right you are getting all of your "facts" from BP.  You dont know what is happening down there.  What we do know is that there is no proof that they have collected all of the oil that they spilled into the gulf, and why should we as humanity be fine with anything less then BP leaving the Gulf in the same condition that they found it in?  They obviously didnt have a solid emergency plan in case of the pipe blowing out, so why are you constantly jumping to their defence?  why cant you be mad at them for for the damage that they DID do?

Really, I have to walk every mile of the Gulf and examine everything myself.

I have admitted damage was done and BP needs to pay for it. Why do I have to be mad at a Company?

And as long as were are admitting stuff, can you admit that the enviromentalists made it seem worse than it tuned out to be?