Slick [WARNING: graphic images of oil-covered fauna]

Comment by Floor Pie on June 3, 2010 at 10:31pm

Plaster that image over their mirrors and emboss it on their paychecks.

I know I drive a car and take airplanes and am therefore complicit and stuff, but I'm a little put out that I had to see it. Vomit. Cry. Vomit some more.

Comment by The Oracle on June 4, 2010 at 12:16am

Oh my GOD, that makes me so sad. I hadn't seen the images yet. Stunning.

Comment by The Diaper Pail on June 4, 2010 at 6:57am

I think there's a limit to complicity of the average person in this. Yes you drive a car and take airplanes. We all probably do that, to varying degrees. But two points about that: first, unless you're a heck of a lot older than what I'd guess the average age of posters here is, from the day you were born the current system of private transportation via car was already well-established (and systems of public transit, especially rail) strangled in its infancy. The average person doesn't have much of a choice, short of moving into a very few American cities where it's possible to live within walking or bike distance from work or convenient to public transportation that doesn't take two and a half hours and two transfers each way. If you are working to limit your frivolous use of petroleum, and to conserve where you can, you are doing all that can realistically be expected of people who are born into the current system. Could you maybe do more? Yes, but when is that ever not the case. I'm sure your house could be cleaner right now, your children's future better prepared for, their lives more fulfilling. And I can say all that without a hint of insult or questioning your abilities or dedication: you do what you can, in the real world. Second point: being a consumer of a product - any product - is very different from having the means of production of that product in your hands. This is, at bottom, a story about corporate corner-cutting and steadfast, consistent refusal to match advances in dangerous-territory drilling with advances in ability to clean up potential spills and preparedness for worst-case disasters.

Comment by ks on June 4, 2010 at 7:19am

Maybe they should have the same thing done to them and see how they like it? I don't know, but I can think of several horrible punishments that are probably too good for some of those bastards.

Comment by DLBK on June 4, 2010 at 7:46am

The pictures are just terrible. Ugh. It's hard to know what a suitable punishment would be for this. Pay for all the clean-up? That's not even a punishment, it's just fixing what you broke.

Comment by kommishoner on June 4, 2010 at 8:48am

DP, that's the most cogent argument against BP's egregious claim that somehow the American public is to blame for this that I've seen yet. For serious.

As for what I think should happen, that criminal prosecution Holder mentioned sounds nice.

Comment by Alan on June 4, 2010 at 8:59am

Apparently we are being hard enough on BP's exec.

Comment by mcglory13 on June 4, 2010 at 9:08am

National Wildlife Foundation is soliciting donations to help the animals. Text wildlife to 20222 to donate ten bucks. I don't know why this isn't as known and wide spread as the texting for Haiti donations was. This is our freaking ecosystem here.

Comment by kommishoner on June 4, 2010 at 9:11am

Poor baby.

I was trying to say something funny, but I can't. Fuck him.

Comment by The Diaper Pail on June 4, 2010 at 9:31am

Yeah, saw that a couple of days ago when it happened, Alan. If you missed it - and although your article is great - there's nothing quite like watching those words actually come out of his mouth (warning: may inspire either gag reflex, white-hot fury, or both):

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