Waste Management Firms Lobby Congress to "Spill Baby Spill"

               On November 8th, 2011 executives at the Waste Management Association of America spoke on Capital Hill about the need to increase oil spilling in the Gulf of Mexico to create jobs.  Steve Senton, of the Garbage Management Corporation stated “the BP Deep Horizon Rig only had 36 people working on the platform.  As a result of the spill our company alone has hired 300 people to clean up the mess.  That is almost ten times the amount of jobs that the oil drilling created.” 
                There was also mention about how many jobs were created indirectly.  For example, BP has hired 66 new staff members in the Public Relations department of the company (twice as much as the oil rig that spilled), and the number of potential lawsuits has created many jobs for recent law school graduates.
                John Smothers, a representative at BP responded with "our platform had as many as 36 people working on the rig.  Which is more than 1/3 of the amount of people in my high school graduating class in Brinton, North Dakota.  We need to drill in the gulf in order to provide fuel to the wars in America fought in the Middle-East, North Africa, and to fuel our military bases in Germany, Japan, and Poland.  Where do you think all that fuel is coming from?  America of course.  This is also an issue of national security.  Our spilled 236,000,000 barrels of oil in the gulf.  This is a small amount compared to the amount of oil used and needed for US military operations."
                Steve Senton continued with “our company has doubled the amount of Civil and Environmental Engineers working for our company since the spill.  With more spilling in the gulf we can encourage green technology by using the millions of barrels of crude oil spilled per day to be used for new forms of alternative energy from water waste and salt.”