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Tuesday, August 15, 2006

1.4 million gallons X $3.10/gallon =

awww, tai you don't look a day older than six months...

Large Oil Spill Occurs in Indian Ocean
TOKYO -- A Japanese tanker spilled about 1.4 million gallons of crude oil in the eastern Indian Ocean following a collision with a cargo ship, the tanker's operator said Tuesday. Japan's Kyodo news service said the spill - which would be about 4,500 tons - may have been the largest ever involving a Japanese tanker.

1.4 million gallons X $3.10 (US)/gallon = $4,340,000 (which is just the loss in retail gas.) How much is this going to cost in environmental clean up? A freakin LOT more that's how much!

Which makes me wonder how oil companies make money with this kind of liability hanging over there heads? When there is a spill or mishap *COUGH! BP! COUGHCOUGH* they scratch their heads and go "oopsie daisys! Oh well, what's a few million dollars down the drain? Guess we'll just have to raise gas prices again, la la la ..." (not that I'm complaining about the price of gas in the US. Well yes I am, but I acknowledge that less wealthy nations traditionally pay even more for gas than we do and, well, that aint right either. At least not the way that it is now.)

Maybe I'm cheap, but if it were my oil tanker and my profits at stake, each gallon would be triply, no! quadrupley protected inside ziploc(tm) baggies. The heavy duty, double-lined freezer kind. humph.

Total Non-Sequitor: Real pandas of genius present ... Get drunk at the Zoo.
It's a micro-brew fundraiser for the elephants! psa: pandodyssey advises removal of all alcohol-induced-rose-tinted-eyewear (beer goggles) prior to leaving this function with anyone/thing. You could wind up bringing home the entirely wrong kind of party animal ...

1 Comments:

At 9:35 AM, Hugh Bris said...

I'm not even going to comment on the newest waste of time/money/effort and what have you.

Well, I will say this. ASSHOLES! How do you not see a cargo ship coming? They aren't as big as Oil Tankers but they're no tug boats either.

Now, as for the non-sequitor. The REAL reason I read Pandodyssey...

Sounds like fun... Any other Pandas going?

 

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