Day 40


The fact that no one in BP or the government has a clue on how to stop this oil leak is starting to become real scary, real fast.

I have been looking into this. When you go to BP's "Gulf of Mexico Response" website, on the right it asks you to e-mail your ideas on how to stop the oil flow. They are soliciting ideas on the web! Are you kidding me?

I was shocked to find the following map, put out by the US Department of the Interior, updated Feb. 2010.

This is a visual of all the active leases and infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico - OMG it was an accident waiting to happen.

All the yellow blobs are active leases, what you can't see is the criss crossing of oil and gas pipelines all over this map! OMG again.

We all know what BP was thinking - money. But what was FERC, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission doing giving them a permit? I would love to see the EIS, Environmental Impact Statement of this one they okayed. Did they really allow them to build such a thing with no thought to what to do in the event it broke?

Americans, we have been asleep, stoned in the happiness of driving and flying around whenever we wanted, but we must awake soon. We need to look around. We need to get off cheap oil, like a bad drug that is literally killing us. Like kids that can't have all the candy they want. We need Gasaholics Anonymous.

In the mean time I have taken a course and gotten certified by BP, (I am not sure why the authority rests with them), to be on the beaches once the oil hits here. How can it not....