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Shandris

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6. Maybe it's about time we took the Chinese approach to corporate malfeasance.

Reply to kadaholo (Original post)

Fri May 13, 2016, 05:50 PM

May 2016

I can assure you, we'd have FAR less oil spills if, every time we did, we chain-catapulted some executives into a brick wall and tweeted it from the White House.

I know, I know, it'll never happen. Our """""government""""" (I wonder what that word derives from?) isn't in the business of doing things to actually help people, it's in the business of making money. But one can dream!

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'Status Quo': Shell Spews Nearly 90,000 Gallons of Oil into Gulf of Mexico in Latest Spill [View all] kadaholo May 2016 OP

Natural leaks annually seep StarTrombone May 2016 #1

30,000 old capped wells, loophole regulations to check them if they may resume use 'someday' Sunlei May 2016 #3

I'm sure all that means something to you StarTrombone May 2016 #4

The BP oil disaster was 'about' 200 million gallons. Sunlei May 2016 #5

Psst ... your ignorance is showing! Nihil May 2016 #7

When are they going to rename it the Gulf Oil of Mexico? nt valerief May 2016 #2

Maybe it's about time we took the Chinese approach to corporate malfeasance. Shandris May 2016 #6