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To: Mac Con Ulaidh who wrote (75634)	5/23/2010 1:34:06 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 149317

>>Rat has a ticket ready for you. you coming on down to help?>> I pay taxes and expect my government to take care of this. If a truck loaded with uranium turns over on the interstate, the truck driver or company doesn't clean it up. The government does and charges the company. If a plane crashes into a building, the government oversees the reason for the crash and helps with managing the crises. When the Exxon Valdez spilled 11 million gallons of oil, the government (Alaska) oversaw the spill and coordinated the clean up. I spent two solid years in Valdez doing nothing else but coordinating our portion, H @ SS,'s response and fighting with Exxon. If we are attacked by another country it is the government that addresses this. Just because BP caused the spill, it was our's (the peoples land and oil) and we should be coordinating the response. BP should be clearing everything with us e.g. Why didn't we demand a safer dispersant? We do not let other people put toxins in our our environment without clearign them with us. That gulf is all ours, and so anything that happens is our concern and certainly our right to decide how it should be addressed. It was just reported BP has defied the EPA to use safer dispersants. How is it they can even do that? It is our country, land, water and oil. None of it belongs to BP.