This is not a dip in profits in the second quarter. This is the potential elimination of a major economic sector in the American South, as well as the livelihoods of thousands of people.

We're getting emotionally involved because a way of life that we have grown up with is now in danger of being wiped away. We are not treehugging hippies who freak out at the sight of birds covered in oil, and your assertions to that affect are uninformed, condescending, and incredibly arrogant. Do you understand that? We know people who have no other way of making money. They don't have the education or the training.

It's difficult to describe your level of ignorance, but after seeing Hayward and you I'm beginning to think there's something either in your country's water or gene pool.