I just want to say this for everyone when describing the Gulf Oil Spill. “Unf*#@ing believable.” I mean seriously even Saturday Night Live has parodied this thing. It has been a full month since BP’s offshore drilling station sank and started spewing 42,000 gallons (probably more but who really knows) of oil in the Gulf of Mexico a day. A full month with this leak killing the environment and BP has still not fixed the problem.

As this spill continues on, questions and frustration start to breed new information. One popular question is, has BP done everything it can to stop this leak and clean up the oil? The answer is no. They absolutely have not.

Not many people know anything about how the oil industry functions but past history has shown us that this oil spill could have been cleaned up already. The one thing people have overlooked is that BP is a business and they are cleaning up this spill as a business that intends to stay profitable while the reputation has tanked. We’re almost positive that BP has mapped out the next 5 years for themselves after this oil spill.

So here we go, this is the part that’s going to make you mad. In 1993 there was a Saudi Oil spill that many don’t remember or never heard about. It was a spill from an offshore platform that spilled millions and millions of gallons and is still the leader in the biggest spill category. Reports suggested that it spilled nearly 800 million gallons of oil into the Persian Gulf. That is over 50 times more than the Exxon Valdez oil spill. So why have we never heard of it? The reason behind this very question is because it was the swiftest cleanup….that’s why. They cleaned up nearly 80% of the oil that was spilled and even salvaged the oil to be used.

The cleanup process back in the Saudi spill involved a fleet of Supertankers. These are giant tankers used to transport massive amounts of oil. They that can suck up seawater and oil and separate the two. These tankers can suck up millions of barrels and do this very fast. So why won’t BP use them? Well, they cost money of course. BP won’t use supertankers because it will tie up these ships and money will be lost in the oil business. BP doesn’t want to lose the money. It’s all business…

So when you here all the crazy names of things that BP is claiming to use to get this spill under control, remember that they are still an operational company that is moving their oil to the consumer. It’s business as usual. They’ll take a loss but in the end they will rebound easily because we’ll all forget about this spill when it’s all closed up. That’s the truest thing I have ever typed before. The only thing that lost in this disaster was the environment. It’s unfortunate. We can complain all day but that’s the way it is.