Anyone seen any oil profits lying around that could be used to fix this? (http://www.chevrontoxico.org/gallery_crude.php?&gal=1&offset=0)<-Link
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No, all that "extra" money went to the stockholders, of course!
(or golden parachute plans for the executives)
Yeah but I worked in an oil field when they first heard the EPA was coming - everyone raced to get gigantic 10 yard loaders to bury all the crude oil spilled on the surface- thousands of cubic yards in a small oil field alone-- about 4 feet underground around all the tank farms - I think since it wasn't refined that may have been legal but you were a mess when you came in from working there - crude oil all over your clothes, shoes and tools.