I’ve come to the realization that if you want to do something bad, and not get in trouble, you just have to screw up on such an epic scale that nobody even knows where to begin when it comes to serving up punishment. While the ecological devestation with the BP oil spill is more than a little disheartening (to grossly understate it), what almost pisses me off more is the realization that nobody is really going to get in trouble for it (other than the “little guy” like the workers cleaning it up getting sick, the fishermen out of business, etc.). Remember the great Exxon spill and their cleanup effort. When they decided they were done, they just packed up and called it a day. It wasn’t cleaned up. They weren’t “done.” But that was the end of it for them.
I will be stunned if we see any meaningful accountability on this catastrophe.
