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How much does it bother you that BP is using volunteers?

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BP is recruiting volunteers to help clean the oil spill that will ruin the Gulf Coast. Last year BP showed profits of $327 BILLION and they are asking for VOLUNTEERS to help them clean? BP is a huge British company, headquartered in London; it's the third largest global energy company in the world. This diaster in the Gulf of Mexico is expected to wreak long-lasting damage to the environmentally sensitive bayous of the Louisiana coast and to fisheries as far north as Florida. The ecology of the region will be destroyed. About one-fifth of U.S. seafood comes from the Gulf. Most shrimp will now have to be imported from China and Vietnam. The oil vomiting from the sea-bottom, estimated at 210,000 gallons per day, is putting thousands of commercial and sports fishermen out of business. The impact will dwarf that of the 1989 Exxon Valdez catastrophe. $327 Billion in profits and they are asking for volunteers to help them clean up their mess. Many Americans are out of work and this British company does not want to pay them a dime to help clean. What do you think?