For more than 2,064 hours oil spewed from the gulf floor like a sorority girl on her 21st birthday. Imagine everything that happened in your life from April 20th until July 15th of this year. During every event you can think of, oil was blasting out of a pipe and into the ocean. In order for you to gain some perspective I've dug up a few events on that day:
the Lakers beat the Thunder in round one game two of the NBA Finals
Kick-Ass was the number one movie in the box office (Produced by Brad Pitt)
Lady Gaga and Beyonce's Telephone was number one on the top 40 chart
and it happened just after I wrote this incredible blog
The thing that bothers me the most about this spill is, like a sorority girl on her 21st, massive amounts of money were pissed away. Yesterday, Obama passed a sixth bailout to BP for $128,500,000 bones. This chump change plus the other 5 equals $389,900,000 IOU's from Obama to BP.
British Petroleum has already spent $8,000,000 just trying to clean up the mistake. Smart scientists are estimating the total costs of the spill, will be greater than $50,000,000,000. I'm here today to tell you that I not only agree with said Scientists, but I back up their calculations wholeheartedly.
Where could that oil have gone had it not been dumped directly into the ocean? Well, besides running my car non stop from now until long after I'm worm food, the 4,900,000 barrels of oil (or 205,800,000 gallons) could have gone into the ridiculously profitable NASCAR industry. Considering a 250 mile race with 40 NASCAR cars only takes a messily 5,000 gallons they could have held over 41,160 races. In other words NASCAR would have been able to run on the gulf waste for over a quarter of a century.
The Indianapolis Motor Speedway seats 257,325.
Daytona International Speedway seats 168,000
Charlotte Motor Speedway seats 167,000
Bristol Motor Speedway seats 160,000
Texas Motor Speedway seats 154,861
all of these speedways seat more than the largest stadium in the world, cramming only 150,000 Koreans into Rungrado May Day Stadium. Each seat at the speedways averaging around $88.16 bucks. Might want to tack that on to BP's losses.
Is this the red coats' way of getting us back for the fiasco we pulled on them in 1773 with their precious tea? It wouldn't surprise me. It seems like people only care about the effect the oil had on the coast. This is just ignorant, take a look at the bigger picture. Realize that this is more than just a dawn commercial but, like a sorority girl's birthday party, this is an immeasurable mammoth devastation that has rippling effects that we may never fully understand.
Go Bucks!
Remember back when Hurricane Katrina hit, and all the oil rigs on the gulf coast closed and gas prices went up?
ReplyDeleteI find it terribly ironic that as prices soared when oil rigs had to shut down when a storm blew through, but when a oil rigs EXPLODES, kills people, then spews millions of gallons into the gulf, and Obama places a moratorium hindering companies from deep sea drilling period, and our prices don't increase past the typical summer increase.
Its obvious that oil companies don't really price their product using the forces of the market, rather they price their oil depending on the sways and perception of the public. They charge in a way that will best suite their PR needs.
Doesn't matter, they make gas $10 bucks a gallon we'll pay whatever they say. we'll just grumble about it as we fill up.
ReplyDeleteI just hope once we switch to electric, I don't live to see the day there is an electric spill