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- niradg, on 11/10/2009, -11/+271raping the earth has unintended consequences? impossible!
- Howitzer86, on 11/11/2009, -3/+231Wow... this is like a Simcity 2000 headline...
- thehans, on 11/11/2009, -2/+112Just fill it with trash, boom two problems solved.
- sipsyrup, on 11/11/2009, -2/+80Oil company should be fixing this, not the state...
- Jensaarai, on 11/11/2009, -0/+67Howdy all.
My family lives in Carlsbad. It's not going to swallow the whole town. But that highway is the main artery through town and it could certainly cause a huge mess.
That said it's a highly irresponsible practice that is very very common. Dissolving big holes under the earth, creating a briney sludge to push oil out and pretending that will have no consequences may not be the most cunning plan ever. In the end, all the neighbors and the taxpayers will have to deal with it. Companies duck responsibility, dispute that anything is wrong until it goes catastrophically wrong, and then settle out for pennies on the dollar or just claim they go bust.
I guess we could always set up some sort of "cover the costs of the inevitable environmental catastrophe by irresponsible resource extraction" insurance for oil companies. Heh. - kss42, on 11/11/2009, -2/+59This is just like Gears of War
- jerryjamesstone, on 11/10/2009, -4/+56That totally sucks...er, sinks. Whateve!
- verycoolwinter, on 11/11/2009, -3/+52Reminds me of my ex-girlfriend.
- Surferess, on 11/10/2009, -6/+49Well thank GOD it isn't Carlsbad, California or maybe I wouldn't be typing this right now.
- theNazz, on 11/11/2009, -1/+39Exxon still has not paid for the cleanup or fines from the Valdez spill in Alaska... how long ago was that?
- killtr0city, on 11/11/2009, -3/+36I drink . . . your . . . MILKSHAKE! I DRINK IT UP!
- pinchduck, on 11/11/2009, -4/+35The free market system is really good at distributing goods & services. That computer you're typing on right now is a great example. The reason you can go to just about any store in your town and get an iPhone is another. The free market system is not so good at "internalizing external costs", which is why we need some regulation. And no system is good at preventing people from breaking the law. To impugn an entire economic system because of one law breaker is naive and immature. Fix the damage (if possible), sue the company, and imprison the law breakers. If you can't do that, it's because your legal system is broken, not your system if distributing goods and service. Corruption and regulatory capture happen in all economic and governmental systems, they aren't a characteristic of any single one.
- zambuka, on 11/11/2009, -15/+44If it collapses, the unnatural cavern is likely to take with it a church, a highway, several businesses and a trailer park.
Hmmm.. trailer park.. Kinda makes the loss of the rest seem almost worthwhile.
But seriously. Oil industry acting irresponsibly? Who'd a thunk it. - MacBookForMe, on 11/10/2009, -2/+29Dugg for that dirty sinkhole
- srgtTarantula, on 11/11/2009, -4/+28Yeah! ***** those people's lives! Maybe next time they'll learn not to be poor.
- colincornaby, on 11/11/2009, -9/+30"The problem is so severe that the Eddy County Commission declared a state of emergency last Thursday, and they hope that state and federal funds will arrive in time to fill the cavern before it collapses."
Free market system screws things up. Taxpayers are stuck with the bill to clean things up. How efficient. I would say they should sue the oil company, but the oil company can probably easily afford the sort of lawyers to drown the suit in paperwork until well after the town is at the bottom of the sink hole. - jtorkbob, on 11/11/2009, -0/+20My mother grew up in the caves. She has no pigment in her skin and feasts on human flesh.
- SACubeMonkey, on 11/11/2009, -0/+19Well the article did say a trailer park could fall in....
- theNazz, on 11/11/2009, -0/+14Who? The government who takes their lobby money and campaign contributions? This is the same government who took money from Telecom companies and then 'retroactively' cleared them for their crimes against we the people. We even elected a guy President who took part in clearing those crimes against us... face facts, the USA is a dying empire and the people in charge are making sure of it.
- colincornaby, on 11/11/2009, -4/+17I'm aware, I've done some microeconomics. :)
Don't get me wrong, I'm not advocating communism or anything. I'm just poking fun at the "free market solves everything perfectly!" people. - fanfablebig, on 11/11/2009, -2/+15Thank you.
- allisonaxe, on 11/11/2009, -0/+13picture of what it will look like: http://images2.fanpop.com/images/answers/38000/384 ...
- KotoOni, on 11/11/2009, -1/+14That brings back memories... and for the record..
Maxis > EA - Litespeed, on 11/11/2009, -5/+16Not to be confused with a massive gloryhole.
- diggimator, on 11/11/2009, -1/+11Associated Press: NM city prepares for salt cavern collapse http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5 ...
- sipsyrup, on 11/11/2009, -0/+10You are right, but that doesn't make them right. Someone needs to bring the hammer down on them.
- Endeavour3d, on 11/11/2009, -1/+10Make the business pay for it, problem solved
- centran, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8yes. money. money is the consequences. boatloads of money!!!
- ivaldes047, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8a gaping hole hundreds of feet wide?
- MtheoryX, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8Reminds me of your ex-girlfriend, too.
- zeeohsix, on 11/11/2009, -0/+8reminds me of the Lake Peigneur salt mine incident.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ddlrGkeOzsI - slappymode, on 11/11/2009, -2/+10I don't know what you mean by that, I don't want to know what you mean by that. Dugg regardless.
- jmdwinter, on 11/11/2009, -1/+8They should call in Michael Bay as a consultant!
- strongsad, on 11/11/2009, -6/+13the thumbnail does sorta look like Goetse if you squint your eyes.
- jcsoc, on 11/11/2009, -3/+10IT'S ALL GOING DOWN MAN!!!!!
- web2pointYo, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7...ha! I figured it out! You live in Carlsbad, CA. :0
//was about to type "Now I'm coming to get you!", but I see from your name and avatar that you may in fact be female. So to avoid any possible misinterpretation that my whimsical statement (which I in fact never actually made...) had any real world intentions, l will instead go with a much less ominous, although granted potentially less humors line.
...I wholly agree!
thank you - sodade, on 11/11/2009, -3/+10Went there once. The caverns were awesome, the town of Carlsbad? Not so awesome. Sink on.
- ASSASSYN360, on 11/11/2009, -9/+16This is just a plublicity stunt for Fantastic Four: Silver surfer 2.
- wissler, on 11/11/2009, -0/+7The free market does not allow you to violate someone else's property rights. In a truly free market, this oil company would have been in deep trouble a long time ago, and the problem would have already been corrected.
- haikuFU, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6Freakonomics: Sinkholes lower crime rate.
- dagr8tim, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7Anyone got a google maps link of the area?
- Jensaarai, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=32.389964,- ...
- Jbar542, on 11/11/2009, -1/+7Anya, it's a giant worm! They're sinking cities with a giant worm!!!!!!!!!!!!
- jerbaker, on 11/11/2009, -0/+6Score another win for unregulated business practices. Because we all know no company would do something like this in a free market because they'd be afraid of hurting their business.
- MercenarySlick, on 11/11/2009, -8/+14Never mind the fact that the source website is a notoriously, insanely biased propaganda mouthpiece.
- CrispixKingdom, on 11/13/2009, -0/+6Woah. Dudes. What are you doing to my planet? That's like, where my turkeys live and *****.
-Jesus- - marciot, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5Hey, cool. Now we have some underground cavern to fill with radioactive waste.
- mparker21311, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5No, that's a stinkhole not a sinkhole.
- TheSuperunknown, on 11/11/2009, -1/+6The incredible picture has basically nothing to do with the article, as their own caption admits... And I'd be willing to bet most folks dugg or commented based on the picture alone.
- hazard, on 11/11/2009, -0/+5You would think this sort of thing would be national, if not international newsworthy...
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