BP OIL, Enviro-spinsters.



If BP Oil deserves any kudos, it’s in their talent to reject reality and substitute their own, or put another way–lie. They would have the American people believe that their #1 priority is “accountibility in [their] business” and to provide the world with “Alternative Energy” (click here to vote). Their website currently states “It’s time for a low-carbon alternative. That’s why we’ve created a new business focused on delivering cleaner energy”. I would be only too happy to have to eat these words and have them prove me wrong.


Here are the facts:

• The nation’s worst polluting plant is the BP PLC oil refinery where 15 workers died in an explosion last year.
• BP’s Texas City refinery released three times as much pollution in 2004 as it did in 2003, according to the most recent data from the Environmental Protection Agency.
• The increase at BP was so large that it accounted for the bulk of a 15 percent increase in refinery emissions nationwide in 2004, the highest level since 2000.
• BP already faces a record $21.3 million fine from the U.S. Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA)
• According to the EPA, the Texas City plant had more than three times the toxic pollutants as the nation’s second most-polluted plant, an Exxon Mobil Corp. refinery in Baton Rouge, La.

Despite the facts, BP says “that when all pollution is taken into account, emissions from its Texas City plant have dropped 40 percent since 2000.” What a joke. That’s like saying “we may suck more than anyone else, but we sucked even more 6 years ago”.



source: Yahoo! News (AP)

I find it disturbing that we’re trying to ban people who were living in Texas before we even set foot on this Land. I wish we could learn from our mistakes with the indians. Let’s open our arms to these people as they are our people too. They have a say in this country as well.