Robert Ariail for July 13, 2011

It was buried under the river.

How dare any American voice ask that the most profitable company in the history of the world spend any of its profits on safety? What it the value of the Yellowstone River compared to the value of American oil? Harley, you might pick your fights more carefully. Stick with things that can be defended. (By the way, there’s a bill requiring oil companies to bring their disaster response plans and equipment up to the modern age to match what they’re required to do in Europe and the rest of the world except Africa. No need to mention that Republicans have permanently blocked the legislation at the behest of their corporate owners.)

^^ You guys are really ok with this? you worship these companies so much that they cannot be faulted for anything? What the F#@* is wrong with you!?

Exxon Mobil, couldn’t even keep their own PR story straight, again, on how their ignoring again, regulations on pipeline construction, led to another “oops!”. First it was “flooding” scraping away the riverbed, then they bounced out another group of excuses. Simple fact is that crude oil KILLS THINGS, just like “fracking fluids”, and the “escape” of natural gas into water aquifers, or the dozens of other “byproducts” of oil, gas, or coal production— allowed to go on unregulated because either regulations have been relaxed, or ignored.

Environmental destruction good! Death GOOD! Rational controls on stupidity and greed, BAD!

SPILL, BABY, SPILL!

The pipeline was buried beneath the river, but due to flooding probably caused by anthropogenic global warming the flood water caused debris to rupture the pipeline.