The Oil Spill & Our Environment-Should BP Employees Go to Jail?

As we sit in front of our computers or our TV sets and watch the BP Oil Spill continue to run amok, you and I have wondered what is going to happen with the environment in that part of the country? We watch the fish, the birds, the dolphins and other wildlife washing up on shore daily now. We see the huge clumps of oil floating in the water.

As the oil soaks into the wetlands and on the beaches, it is becoming painfully apparent that we are in for a long cleanup and for a huge blow to the Eco system in that part of the world. Oil can't be good for grass, water and wildlife. It is going to be a different kind of Katrina, with a much larger footprint. Our ocean is going to be devastated by this.

Have you ever poured oil in water just to see what it does? It floats but then when you try to pour it out or soak it out, it splits up and still coats the inside of the container. We are all hoping that oil and water don't mix, like the old saying goes. However, the fish, shrimp, dolphins, crabs, and other ocean life don't know any of what we know. They just get into it, no clue as to the danger.They get soaked in it, they consume it and I would think it affects the oxygen in the water that goes through their systems. We are talking about 'MILLIONS OF BARRELS A DAY" dumping in the ocean. It has been going full blast for almost a month. How many bottles of motor oil can you pour into a five gallon bucket before it consumes the bucket?

I think we have gotten to our limit, when wildlife starts floating up on the beach! Don't ya think? It is extremely sad and scary to think of what is to come for this part of our country. This company has been negligent beyond belief.

The cost alone is so staggering, this may be the new disaster of our lifetime. The impact on the entire Gulf Coast shoreline in just tourism, fishing, and other lifetime businesses are shutdown. Except for Cleanup, Lawyers and Spectators, they will not have a summer tourism season. Fishing is at a dead stand still. Unless they can get paid for picking them up on the beaches. Money spent on this, if they ever get it stopped, so they can begin calculating, will probably out spend the national debt. Is there a term for after "gazillion"?

BP as it is slowly proving out, has been purposely and willfully negligent. They have allowed safety to be their last priority. They have taken the money and had a good ole time. Our gas prices rise and fall, but mostly rise. Our tax dollars will be the cleanup money. We will ultimately be the ones to not only pay for the cleanup, but to actually go and participate in the cleanup. I see this as the responsibility of BP, but I see it falling to us in America to actually get the work done. As usual, we allow foreign companies and people to come into our country and destroy it, then we wonder what happened.

BP was, in my humble opinion, acting like criminals in this situation. They were allowed to drill and operate these oil rigs, they were given a set of rules and regulations that they were supposed to follow to avoid just this type of situation and they decided, not to follow those rules. They decided across the board not to do what they supposed to do. They broke the law by not doing safety inspections as required. They had those guys that got killed on unsafe equipment, knowingly. That should constitute manslaughter at the least.

Suing may get some monetary satisfaction for some. Putting those in jail that participated in this scam of an inspection system, should teach a few lessons. Living in Colorado, I am familiar with equal justice for ecological disaster.

The Hayman Fire that burned thousands of acres was historical here. A federal forestry officer, Terry Barton, who claimed she was attempting to burn a letter from her estranged husband, set the fire inside a campfire ring within an area designated for no fires due to a severe drought. The fire quickly spread out of the campfire ring and eventually torched over 138,000 acres and burned across four different counties. A federal grand jury indicted Barton on four felony counts of arson. She spent years in prison. It was tagged as the worst fire in the history of the state. It cost over $40 million. There are still repercussions from the damage.

BP can't even get close to owing $40 million. The monetary cost are just a fraction of the damage here. We know the negligence this company portrayed. We know they were partying till the cows came home and didn't even care that the safety measures were not followed. Will the American Government let them walk away after killing people and the catastrophic disaster they allowed to happen.

If a woman who had no previous history of negligence or carelessness can go to prison for years for burning a forest, what should happen to the people responsible for the Gulf Oil Spill? We will see if our Government really cares or not. We will see if there is going to be any sort of justice in this situation. These people have destroyed our Gulf Coast and the waters around it. People will never recover from this. Is prison and money enough? We will see.

You should call your Representatives and Senators and tell them you want these people prosecuted for this.