I just thought of something that makes me feel really dumb.

[rzemanfl]

Earlier this year I bought a bunch of biodegradable fishing sinkers so I wouldn't pollute the Gulf of Mexico with lead....

[JuniperLea]

1. Having a conscience is never dumb...

I'd feel had, not dumb... that's not to belittle your feelings! They are yours... but please don't be too hard on yourself... from my POV you were doing a good thing.

[grantcart]

2. I take great care to make sure that no gasoline drips when I fill up my tank

[mdmc]

3. everything counts

every little thing..

[Curmudgeoness]

4. Not so dumb. We try to do our part, BP screws it up. We try. nt

[Jamastiene]

5. IMHO

That should not make you feel dumb. You could not have known what was about to happen. You were trying to do the right thing.

[ZombieHorde]

6. Now, when I change the oil in my car, I pour the old oil on my neighbor's lawn.

Because of this, the Coast Guard is now under my command.

Some reporters and scientists came to investigate, but they were charged with felonies for getting so close to my neighbor's house. Stupid fuckers! I was starting to feel a bit bummed about it though, so I bought a monster truck, now I am starting to get my life back.

[happy_liberal]

11. well done

:applause:

[ellenfl]

7. don't you wish bp had your foresight? some of us do what

we can to protect our environment. some think everything is expendable . . . those people are usually known as conservatives. ironic, isn't it?

ellen fl

[rzemanfl]

8. Thanks to all who replied. After I posted this I lost my internet

connection due to rain-it happens when the phone line gets wet and Verizon hasn't fixed it yet. I actually don't lose sinkers very often. I fish the beach so there is nothing to snag on. Once in a great while something takes off for Texas and I can't turn it so eventually the line breaks. The main problem is Spanish mackerel rescuing their pals by striking at the terminal tackle when I am playing a fish and cutting the line with their teeth. I don't think there is much beach fishing in my future thanks to BP.

[spanone]

9. did you see this?....Gulf awash in 27,000 abandoned wells

No one is checking to see if they are leaking, investigation finds

More than 27,000 abandoned oil and gas wells lurk in the hard rock beneath the Gulf of Mexico, an environmental minefield that has been ignored for decades. No one — not industry, not government — is checking to see if they are leaking, an Associated Press investigation shows.

The oldest of these wells were abandoned in the late 1940s, raising the prospect that many deteriorating sealing jobs are already failing.

The AP investigation uncovered particular concern with 3,500 of the neglected wells — those characterized in federal government records as "temporarily abandoned."

Regulations for temporarily abandoned wells require oil companies to present plans to reuse or permanently plug such wells within a year, but the AP found that the rule is routinely circumvented, and that more than 1,000 wells have lingered in that unfinished condition for more than a decade. About three-quarters of temporarily abandoned wells have been left in that status for more than a year, and many since the 1950s and 1960s — eveb though sealing procedures for temporary abandonment are not as stringent as those for permanent closures.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38113914/ns/disaster_in_the...

[rzemanfl]

10. Yes I did. On 6/25 I posted about the possiblity of the BP well

springing a leak in the future (assuming they get it plugged). Little did I know.

But sinkers, good on that....

[spanone]

13. i applaud your effort. it's more sincere than anything from bp.

good on you

[happy_liberal]

12. this is really true in the big picture

no matter what we do in our daily lives, nothing will change until we stop the big polluters.

They are worried about CO2, the want to charge us more taxes with cap and trade? If it really is a big problem, just cap it, no trade. And cap the energy providers profits so they can't pass it all onto the consumers.

And then End NAFTA and the WTO-bring all our industries and jobs back here. How can we pretend to be protecting the environment when we are buying all our stuff from places with no environmental regulations? (Where is Al Gore on this?)

They want us to change our lightbulbs to save the earth while they flood the ocean with oil and the air with corexit crap.

It is time to hold the corporations accountable not another way to blame we the people and tax us for it.