Muddy Water

Water, water every where and not a drop to drink; or further more swim in. After 85 days, numerous dead people, thousands of animals dead, BP Oil finally was able to stop the oil leak off the gulf coast. With about 184 million gallons of oil in the water, this incident has become arguably the worst natural disaster that has occurred to date. There are so many levels of disasters that occurred with this one incident. The first one would be the lost of jobs and the death of sea creatures. Employment and fishing go hand in hand in the gulf coast. With hundreds of thousands if not millions of sea creatures that perished due too the oil spill. People are forced to cope with less supply of food to eat which subsequently made it easier for the struggling near by businesses to raise there prices. Stores, restaurants and people are left inapt to this disaster. Swimmers are left captive on beaches that have oil globs scattered on the shore and microscopic oil particles that threaten to poison swimming children. The sad part about this mess is that the oil companies don't care. President Obama's administration was able to pass a bill suspending any new permits for off shore drilling for at least six months. This was to help stop any other oil spills from happening while this disaster was eradicated. Also, it would give time to look deeper into the issue of drilling for oil in water; the pros and cons. As soon as the bill was passed, oil company representatives appealed the decision and was able to get the decision over turned. It goes to show that the gulf spill didn't matter to them, the only thing that mattered was more money.

Fast forward too Mid-July, the oil leak was finally stopped after 85 days. A week later, China experienced there own oil leak. This oil disaster, happened in an area of China that operates some of the busiest ports in the world and once again the biggest employment in that region is fishing. This leaves me to wonder, why drill for oil in an area that if there was a spill, the economy in that area would take a nose dive. This is just the start, with new oil discoveries on land getting impossible to find; oil companies have viewed off shore drilling as being the candy in the window to a little kid. Once they were able to get there candy, they refused to let go. So what happens now; now we wait for the next disaster. We wait for roadblocks that are supposed to detour these things from happening get bulldozered by judges that have there own personal investment in oil companies. So stopping this disaster in advance would have been a financial lost; which is very ironic. So once again, hard working people suffer while the rich keep getting richer.