BP sends Gulf states millions to promote tourism hurt by oil spill

[highplainsdem]

Source: The Times-Picayune

BP sends Gulf states millions to promote tourism hurt by oil spill
By The Times-Picayune

May 17, 2010, 2:36PM

In an effort to help Gulf Coast states fend off the brutal effect the massive Gulf oil spill might have on tourism, BP has announced that it will send grants to Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida to help those states promote tourism.

Florida will receive $25 million. Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama will each receive $15 million, BP said in a news release. The news release did not say why Florida would receive more money.

The grants are in addition to the $25 million payments BP made to each of the four states on May 5 to help them offset the costs of fighting the oil spill.

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"The Gulf Coast is our home too. We are doing everything we can to plug the leak, contain the spill offshore and protect the shoreline. With the deployment of the riser insertion tool yesterday, we made important progress in containing the spill, and that will further strengthen our ability to keep oil off the shore," BP's group chief executive Tony Hayward said.

Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/bp_sends_gulf_states_millions.html

[Brickbat]

1. Wow. I'm speechless for so many reasons.

[damntexdem]

7. Just as well: you'll inhale less that way.

Fewer volatile gasses entering your lungs. ;-)

[bluestateguy]

2. Ooooooh!!!! "MIllions!"

Puleeze. "Millions" today is like a nickel or a dime.

[jimshoes]

3. Here have a bribe...

but shhhh it's just between us. Wink, wink.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Come see our beautiful industrial waste

Smell it on the morning breeze too.

[orwell]

5. Please visit our exotic...

...black sand beaches!

Swim in the gulf for a lovely all-over moisturizing treatment.

Try the delicious black bass or our blackened red fish.

Visit the Gulf...your memories will never wash out!

[Downwinder]

10. Pre-oiled shrimp for frying.

[woodsprite]

12. Don't forget tuna, prepackaged in oil. n/t

[damntexdem]

6. Well, look at the benefits for tourists -- for example:

soon the whole Gulf of Mexico will be a gigantic asphalted-over parking lot for their RVs.

Come on, now, I'm sure that there are other tourism advantages here.

[louis-t]

8. CNN this morning had someone interviewing people

on the beach. "Everythings fine, come on down, no crowds, people have cancelled trips down here for no reason, see, no oil on the beach." They also said tests have been done on the oysters and crabs, no oil showing up in them.

[Hubert Flottz]

9. "tests have been done on the oysters and crabs"

The shellfish will evolve to cope with man's inhumanity to nature. They will grow dipsticks and tail pipes.

[bluesmail]

11. A bribe is a bribe is a bribe is a...(eom).