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Originally Posted by CRUDEFINDER
And the problem with that is? Is that not what businesses do in a free market?
Should they "chase" it for the warm fuzzy feelings?
My solution
Then why bother at all with the pretense of environmental acceptance. Just let them strip the resource from the ground in any fashion they choose. After effects, pshaw. Isn't that the main push from the capitalist only side? We care, so we don't need regulation.
But now that these big time **** ups are occurring closer to America, suddenly there's a concern. Cities wiped out from hurricanes, oh well we fix, maybe. A gusher without a shut off valve,(saved $500K for the stockholders) oh well the hurricane will clean it up, maybe.
I think it perfect payback, American style business has made its money by striping resources and sweatshopping locals for decades. The dirty stuff has been offshore and if it was on TV, easy to turn the channel to House or American Idol.
Yet now its all local with a nightly spillcam. And the stockholders are gonna go broke as the remediation costs climb. Of course Exxon wrote the playbook for avoiding paying out claims, so the citizens will have to underwrite the costs and hope to get paid back later. But as you say, business is about profit, so they won't pay. Good business, just bad for the citizens.
The biggest benefactor China, they just told Sec Def to go home, their army is their concern and not their current debtors, so sit nice in the lobby and we'll be with you soon.
The view from the cheap seats should be good for the next decade of spirals.