Up The Middle

For those affected by the infamous exxon valdez spill its do or die time, nineteen years later that is- because of the bottomless pockets and corporate greediness that is Exxon Mobil the battle for punitive damages has reached the supreme court and i'm apprehensive about the way this will all end. You can see the full article here: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080225/ap_on_re_us/scotus_exxon_valdez
But in summary the company responsible for the largest oil spill in history, for damaging thousands of peoples livelihoods, for devastating an ecosystem that by all accounts (except, of course, their own) has still not fully recovered doesn't want to pay damages to the victims of its folly because "they shouldn't be responsible for the actions of the helmsman." Well lets see he was employed by yr company wasn't he? So i think that makes u responsible. Oh you've already paid $3.5 billion for the cost of this spill, oh well let me shed a tear for the big oil company. I'm sorry exxon fucked up, they deserve to pay every last cent that can be extracted from them. And what pisses me off the most is that Exxon posted a $40.6 billion profit last year, the largest in the US but apparently the $2.5 B that is being asked is going to bankrupt the company. And of course we all know that no one buys gas or diesel anymore so theres going to be no way to recover that *kind* of profit loss. I really hope the court rules against them but i'm afraid it may not happen. If they had just gone ahead and paid this money instead of spending it on their high powered legal team and nineteen years of fucking appeals everyone could have put this behind them now. It never ceases to amaze me at the lenghts some companies will go inorder to not have to pay money. 

I'm sorry that you have been so put upon for something that u did, Exxon, its a travesty- u did all u could, i mean after all the skipper was just drunk its not like he was smoking crack or anything and i'm sure yr CEO was down in alaska personally cleaning oil off birds and kissing babies, really i'm truly sorry that the big bad public is out to sink yr struggling oil company. Its sad. With that said pay the fuck up and shut the fuck up!