Posts by Perpetiel

Maybe get your facts straight?

Not that I'm a sympathiser with any oil company but this rig was being operated by another company on BP's behalf. BP hired a US contractor (Transocean: Danciger Oil & Refining Company, founded in 1919 in Louisiana, USA) to do their drilling for them. Oil companies do not drill themselves, they hire locals to do it. Who follow local laws and HSE requirements.

Also, to drill you need to follow local laws. Due to the oil company lobbyists in the US these are not as stringent in the US as in the EU in order to maximise profits.

It is the whole industry that is at fault. Even more than that we all as consumers are liable and responsible. If there wasn’t this lifestyle to support there wouldn’t be the demand for oil which in the long run isn’t sustainable anyway.

Americans constitute 5% of the world’s population but consume 24% of the world’s energy.

We need the oil to carry on with the lifestyle we have, don’t we?

Our society is bankrupt and immoral, but won’t change, because it is owned by big business and needs us to be good little consumers.

Might be in this anthology...

Aries I

Illustrator Grant, John.

Imprint:Newton, MA David & Charles 1979

Note:Kilworth, G. The marble of God's cold lips.--Shaw, B. and Harris, M. The edge of time.--Holdstock, R. In the valley of the statues.--Rohan, M. S. The insect tapes.--Priest, C. and Redd, D. The agent.--Douglas, R. Flies in amber.--Langford, D. Sex pirates of the blood asteroid.--Spruill, S. Prime culture.--Tapp, T. And Englishmen.--Wilson, C. Timeslip.--Devereux, E. MT (and hence to be filled)

ISBN0715377779