As more toxic crude continues to pump into the Gulf of Mexico every day, the petroleum industry continues to make billions. Oil companies have been recklessly pouring their resources into researching new and increasingly dangerous ways to drill in deeper and deeper waters, with no comparable research into how to contain a leak at such depths.  For decades oil companies have not invested in improving the technology related to cleaning up such horrific and destructive disasters, as is evidenced in the growing environmental catastrophe that BP has wrought upon our nation.

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Dr. Rachel Maddow highlights BP’s (Beyond Profit?) revolting and irresponsible response to the ever-increasing environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico:

“The way that we are dealing with the oil that is in the gulf now is frankly a disgrace. At this hour, officials believe that somewhere in the neighborhood of 39 million barrels of crude have already spilled into the Gulf of Mexico — 39 million barrels. And we are acting like every new gallon is a surprise…There is a major major contrast between the Apollo Project level super genius effort to try to cap the leak at the seabed, an effort that has been failing, despite all of the resources and intellectual firepower thrown at it. There is a major contrast between that and the low-tech no-tech lackadaisical pitiful measures being taken to deal with the spilled oil.”

A pelican in Bartaria Bay, Louisiana is coated in crude from the Deepwater Horizon disaster. Photo is by Jose-Louis Magana/Greenpeace.