BP a buy??

[Zouji]

Interesting responses so far. I suppose I'm the only person on the Gulf Coast then. This disaster is a very big deal around here because it has pretty much kicked the local economy in the stomach while it was already lying down sick in the mud. Shrimp fishing is only one of the business affected in the area. A lot of those people in the shrimp boats aren't part some huge mega corporation, they run there own small businesses. If people don't buy shrimp then they don't make money. Deep sea fishing on the gulf is another big business. Every year there is a huge gulf fishing tournament which nets lots of tourists money. Guess what happened. An oil spill. So all the tourists didn't go to gulf shores and spend lots of money. This winter lots of old rich Yankee snow birds probably are gonna pick another spot to nest. That's also gonna hurt local business. What really pisses people off though is that boats and crews were brought in from other areas to help with the spill clean up. While a decent chunk of those local shrimp boat captains had to sit out of work. The BP media said that they employed lots of local fishermen to help with the clean up. But a lot of boats and fishermen were left out of the effort.

Plus to top all of this we have no clue what the ecological damage will be. It may be minimal or it may be very bad. Ecologist still don't know a lot about sea life in the deep gulf area. Or really any deep sea area.

Yes oil does leak naturally from the bottom of the ocean. But not this much in one spot. Also we have no idea what the long term affects of this much oil in this area will be.

It all may not be that bad. But people hate to not know what is going to happen. If a hurricane rolls through and blows away a ton of stuff, we can assess the damage and rebuild. No one knows what the real damage is here or what long term effects it may have.