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"In the seven weeks since the oil rig explosion that set off the catastrophe, BP has had to improvise at every turn. The most recent government estimates put the total amount of oil lost at 23.7 million to 51.5 million gallons. When asked why BP did not have containment systems on standby in case of a leak, BP spokesman Robert Wine said there was no reason to think an accident on this scale was likely. "It's unprecedented," he said. "That's why these caps weren't there before." Comment This what I'm talking about. "The reason we did not have a big containment system on standby, is because we did not have a big containment system on standby in the first place." Unbelievable. Or, "what we have is collection and containment systems for little holes and little spills. We have no containment system for big spills because a big spill is just a bunch of little spills put together and collection and containment is the policy." Next comes the testimony on how "the policy was in place before I was hired." This of course means it is my fault and I was not even in the area when the damn thing happened. WL. ________________________________________________ Send list submissions to: [email protected] Set your options at: http://lists.econ.utah.edu/mailman/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
