Before, "Drill, Baby, Drill!", Floridians should have come up with the PR campaign to support tourism in case of "Spill, Baby, Spill"! Now that we can see the damage to coastal Louisiana, it is time to kick it up a notch, like the $75 million tourism campaign Congressman Meek proposed to be funded by BP.
Here are a few slogan concepts. I love the reader's comment: "Come in, the water's refined." Fab. (add your own):
Come to Florida, free flip flops for all!
Florida, we're open for oil business.
All the dead crabs you can eat!
Bare your booty on our beaches: the world is watching!
Seven times out of ten, you won't step in oil!
Texas and Louisiana support Florida tourism!
Safe above the high tide line: Florida!
Come to interior Florida and hear our crickets sing!
Florida: put some sand on that oil in your shoes
Florida, where flip flopping on oil exploration comes naturally!
10 comments:
Oyle!
I really believe you guys revel in and enjoy contributing to the circus when disasters like this occur. How about some suggestions on how to stop the spill and/or clean it up? Oh, you'll leave that to the experts? Then why don't you leave energy and drilling policy to them too? It's easy to sit on the sidelines and criticize. Get into the game and DO SOMETHING. I know...that's too hard. It would require education, knowledge, and experience. And then (perish the thought) you'd actually have to get up off your ass and DO SOMETHING. And in DOING SOMETHING, you'd then have to subject yourself to the sniping and lame criticisms of those who don't DO ANYTHING. Those who can, do. Those who can't, talk about it.
Why don't you tell us what you are doing David besides wasting your time on our blog?
Living my life. Taking action in my life. EOM is a very small; albeit very enjoyable part of it. I try as best I can to take pleasure in my accomplishments, not the failures of others.
There are times when we are powerless to prevent injustice,
but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.
Elie Wiesel
David, why don't you join one of the organizations that the bloggers of this contribute time and energy to: the Urban Environment League and Friends of the Everglades in Miami. Google the websites to see what these non-profits do. You could also get involved in one of the local political campaigns, like the campaign to succeed Katy Sorenson as District 8 commissioner. There are plenty of other groups. Tropical Audubon. Surfrider. Sierra Club. Dade Human Services Coalition.
The whole point about toxics and the environment, is that you (we, us) had better use precaution because once the damage is done, it takes DECADES if ever to correct it. We've said that, before, calmly and rationally and we've also observed, calmly and rationally, how and why the political status quo will not budge from risk taking that puts the penalty on taxpayers and citizens.
It apparently takes a full-scale catastrophe like the Gulf Oil spill to wake people up. It's uncomfortable. I'll leave it to others to suggest remedies, like using hair clippings to fight the BP spill. This blog is filling a void in Miami that the mainstream media won't touch. No plan to change our approach. Thanks for reading..
Thank goodness David inadvertently brought the serious back.
Come in, the water's refined.
If there were any justice in this world, BP would be seized immediately by the federal government, shut down permanently, and its assets would be redistributed for remediation and compensation for damages. Its executives would be prosecuted as the criminals they are. BP should cease to exist. Forever. And for this disaster alone, probably war profiteering Halliburton and a few other negligent parties as well. But no, we'll all just wait many years for a less than adequate judgment against BP, and even that will be whittled away to virtually nothing before it's all said and done. It's all very depressing.
"Sometimes mistakes happen."
Certainly no one is suggesting BP wanted this to happen or did it on purpose (are they?).
No doubt, there are those that know why what happened happened. I heard a rumor that a the use of a 500K device for this rig that would have been able to pinch off the well head flow in an event of this type was considered and rejected by BP as too expensive. If this is true, my question would be why the regulatory apparatus even leaves the drilling company the choice?
Even though I sometimes have serious disagreement with some of the material on this blog (and sometimes it's more a "tone and tenor" issue than real disagreement); I am highly supportive of independent, fact based, well researched information, particularly when light is shed into areas it does not normally venture into. This blog is such a source, and I enjoy it immensely.
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