Enviropocalypse Now - Page 2
So, if we take Obama at his word on this one, Joe Biden may have to take the America's reigns in a month or so when the President begins to experience his first flashes of insomnia-induced hallucination. Given the massive scale of this disaster, President Obama may not rest for the better part of two or three decades.
Oh, and that bit about BP footing the bill and paying for all this? Here's some food for thought: ExxonMobil kept the Exxon-Valdez claimants in litigation for nearly 20 years, before the Supreme Court reduced its liability from $5 billion to just under $508 million, in 2008. In that time, over a quarter of the original plaintiffs died. There is no reason to believe that BP won't take exactly the same callously litigious course of action.
So, it appears that both the humans and non-humans of the Gulf Coast are in the same boat. And that boat has sprung a massive leak.
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