Who ya gonna call
Maybe the government should give “Ghostbusters” Dan Aykroyd and Bill Murray a quick call, since it sure looks like we don’t have any “Oil Busters” handy to tackle the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico.
The finger-pointing game between British Petroleum, the EPA and the U.S. Coast Guard has become so mindboggling, it’s hard to keep track of “who’s on first.”
If the situation wasn’t so tragically devastating, it would be almost laughable watching the “dance of incompetence” among those involved.
If you’ve been following CNN’s Anderson Cooper’s nightly coverage of the oil spill catastrophe, as I have, it’s downright frightening to discover just how bad this is – and nobody seems to have an answer about taking some kind of action to solve the problem – not even our government.
It sure causes one to be more than a bit uneasy about who, if anyone, will show up in a “Batman” suit to save us if and when a major national crisis occurs. Not that this isn’t a national emergency. Just watching the heartbreaking news footage of dead wildlife beginning to wash up from the oil spill is a chilling omen of what’s still to come.
If the government doesn’t hold BP responsible for the millions of dollars it will take for oil cleanup, lost income for coastal businesses and workers, and the ecological damage to the wetlands and beaches – there should be an outcry from the citizens of this country.
Copyright © 2010, South Florida Sun-Sentinel
Shani McManus
Every home has a shut off valve when they have a serious water or gas leak, why can’t these brilliant engineers that build these rigs have an emergency shut off valve to prevent catastrophies like this
BP is so corrupt and their shortcuts to save money is what led to this catastrophe. Unfortunately, the wolf is in charge of the henhouse. The industry is policing itself.