Oil spill may help Disney!

[hookedonears]

It's truly a shame because we are one of them, but a large percentage of the tremendous number of people who head to the Florida beaches each year will be looking for somewhere else to go and Disney may reap the benefit and get a good number of those people. Our cancellation date for our beach house isn't until June 14, though we're looking for somewhere else to go other than the beach. We don't do Disney during the summer, so Florida isn't going to be an option for us.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I seriously doubt that Disney wants or will be happy this kind of "help" ... at least I hope not.
And I'm quite sure they know the long term ramifications far out weigh any short term "benefit."

 

[Metro West]

I seriously doubt that Disney wants or will be happy this kind of "help" ... at least I hope not.

Exactly...it certainly isn't anything to be hopeful of.

 

[JamieSimms91]

This is Where I stay most of the time when I come to Florida, and Im quite upset and angry from what BP has done to this Beatiful place's coastline. To be quite honest with you I will keep staying there because its a place in Florida that I like.

I havent stayed at Disney but I would like to stay sometime in my life. But the coast is a lovely place to stay and all

 

[Schrute Farms]

I think if anything it will probably hurt.

Alot of Florida beach goers make a day or two diversion to Disney. Many of these beach goers will go to Myrtle Beach, the Outer Banks, coastal Georgia, etc. and miss the Disney side trip.

 

[JamieSimms91]

I think if anything it will probably hurt.

Alot of Florida beach goers make a day or two diversion to Disney. Many of these beach goers will go to Myrtle Beach, the Outer Banks, coastal Georgia, etc. and miss the Disney side trip.

I agree with you

 

[DisneyKevin]

While reporting on this oil catastrophe is world wide....you can imagine that it's almost 24/7 here in FL.

In addition to all of the devastating effects of this disaster, we have just entered hurricane season.

The news is reporting that if a hurricane were to strike, homes, cars, businesses....everything for miles could be covered with a sheen of oil.

The effects of this mess are just starting to be felt. The folks along the Gulf coast are the first to feel it. Memorial Day weekend was a wash out with a huge number of cancellations. The rest of the summer is shaping up the same way.

Nothing...and I repeat NOTHING good will come of this oil spill. This is a generational disaster of monumental proportions.

 

[mom2knk]

The effects of this mess are just starting to be felt. The folks along the Gulf coast are the first to feel it. Memorial Day weekend was a wash out with a huge number of cancellations. The rest of the summer is shaping up the same way.

Nothing...and I repeat NOTHING good will come of this oil spill. This is a generational disaster of monumental proportions.

I agree, Kevin. This is a horrible tragedy, and I don't think people have begun to get their heads around the size of the impact that will be felt!

 

[perdidobay]

Lovely. As someone who has already had a cancellation on my rental condo in Florida due to oil that has not yet arrived, the thought that WDW may benefit does not give me warm fuzzies.

 

[hookedonears]

Being from Louisiana, this is a disaster of monumental proportions. It's going to cost the state Billions of dollars, from the loss of seafood revenues, loss of oil revenues, tourism and 10 of thousands of high paying jobs. The ecology may take decades to recover. BP and or the government are going to pay only a fraction of what it actually is going to cost the state in the long run. I don’t think anyone is happy about this, including Disney. Disney may, however receive a short term bump from this.

 

[WaltD4Me]

I don’t think anyone is happy about this, including Disney. Disney may, however receive a short term bump from this.

And they may not.

Normally any reference to Florida at all brings Disney to my mind. But reading about the tar balls showing on beaches in Pensacola this morning, I can honestly say Disney wasn't at all in my thoughts. Least of all how their attendance might be effected good, bad or otherwise.

 

[Mindy5767]

This is Where I stay most of the time when I come to Florida, and Im quite upset and angry from what BP has done to this Beatiful place's coastline. To be quite honest with you I will keep staying there because its a place in Florida that I like.

I havent stayed at Disney but I would like to stay sometime in my life. But the coast is a lovely place to stay and all

I do not wish to be in the position of defending BP because I am not... but they didn't DO this on purpose for sure. However, there is a reason that BP and other oil companies are drilling out in deep water where it is clearly impossible to contain a disaster. The "anti-drilling activists" worked for many years to effect policy to prevent drilling close to the continental shelf in more shallow waters. They were convinced this would be harmful and they might be forced to view these oil platforms. If they weren't drilling in such deep water, the spill would have been contained and the news would be about the sad tragic loss of life. BP doesn't want to drill in such deep water. Its way more expensive and difficult. They're doing it because they "have" to. I am not saying this the fault of either party. Both are to blame. Believe me, I live in the Washington DC suburbs.... there's enough out here! Its a little late however at this point to rue the deep waters. Until another technology that is cleaner and more renewable to commercially available at a reasonable price and wide spread and cars and trucks have been transitioned to this new method of locomotion, we need to be drilling on land and in shallow water. its just the facts. The whole thing is a horrible shame. You have to wonder WHY there wasn't a plan put it place to handle this remote possibility because even in a 1 in 10,000 chance there is always that 1... and 1 is enough.

I do not think this is necessarily going to send more people to Disney Parks or any theme parks instead of the beach. There may be some.. but there will probably be a pretty even spread among many other vacation options such as historic themed vacation areas (Colonial Williamsburg), mountain locations, interior lake locations like Adirondacks or Great Lakes.

just such a shame

 

[mrsklamc]

This doesn't help Disney at all. Believe it or not, many beach goers couldn't care less about WDW. Beyond that, if you're the state of Florida and have a massive disaster...guess which mouse is a great source of tax revenue?

 

[ArielRae]

Hope they can fix that leak soon.

 

[hookedonears]

This doesn't help Disney at all. Believe it or not, many beach goers couldn't care less about WDW. Beyond that, if you're the state of Florida and have a massive disaster...guess which mouse is a great source of tax revenue?

Okay?......... First of all, read my 2 post above. Second, all I'm saying is, of the Millions of people who vacation in the pan handle of Florida each summer, a large percentage of those will be looking for another place to go on vacation and WDW may get a large number. We go to a Florida beach every year, but we're not going to any other beach at this point. We're looking at other places around the country. Believe it or not, there are people who go to beaches and also go other places. We do every year. Being from Louisiana, no body is remotely happy about this oil spill. It's one of the saddest things that has ever happened in my life time. I made just a simple, straight forward statement.

 

[mrsklamc]

I did read both your posts, I just disagree. I don't believe this will result in anything positive or any attendance boost for Disney.

 

[DiRTyBuNNy]

I guess we'll find out with next years SEC filing...my feeling is it will end up being something in between both viewpoints..

--DB

 

[soupy11]

Kevin,

I am interested in the talk about the oil sheen covering everything (in a hurricane)......did they say just in the coastal areas? Or do they think that this oil spray would reach inland? If so, how did they explain it getting that far inland? Very freaky thought and I hope it is just an over eager what-if scenario for all the folks inland. Bad enough that the coasts are going to get coated, don't need you guys inland getting hurt as well!

 

[DisneyKevin]

I havent heard a predicted distance the oil would travel due to a hurricane.

I was assuming that they just meant the coastal areas.

They have also mentioned that hurricane season could hamper and work being done to stop the oil and any clean up. At this point, this is all conjecture as there are no hurricanes currently predicted.

 

[DisneyKevin]

I do not wish to be in the position of defending BP because I am not... but they didn't DO this on purpose for sure. However, there is a reason that BP and other oil companies are drilling out in deep water where it is clearly impossible to contain a disaster. The "anti-drilling activists" worked for many years to effect policy to prevent drilling close to the continental shelf in more shallow waters. They were convinced this would be harmful and they might be forced to view these oil platforms. If they weren't drilling in such deep water, the spill would have been contained and the news would be about the sad tragic loss of life. BP doesn't want to drill in such deep water. Its way more expensive and difficult. They're doing it because they "have" to. I am not saying this the fault of either party. Both are to blame. Believe me, I live in the Washington DC suburbs.... there's enough out here! Its a little late however at this point to rue the deep waters. Until another technology that is cleaner and more renewable to commercially available at a reasonable price and wide spread and cars and trucks have been transitioned to this new method of locomotion, we need to be drilling on land and in shallow water. its just the facts. The whole thing is a horrible shame. You have to wonder WHY there wasn't a plan put it place to handle this remote possibility because even in a 1 in 10,000 chance there is always that 1... and 1 is enough.

I do not think this is necessarily going to send more people to Disney Parks or any theme parks instead of the beach. There may be some.. but there will probably be a pretty even spread among many other vacation options such as historic themed vacation areas (Colonial Williamsburg), mountain locations, interior lake locations like Adirondacks or Great Lakes.

just such a shame

I have tried to let this go...but I have to address this post.

I'm a bit taken back by the fact that you have put "anti drilling activists" in quotes and basically blamed them for deep water drilling.

I'd think that with the events that have occurred, we'd be able to lose the quotation marks. They have been proven right.

As for BP not wanting to drill in deep water....BP will drill though the closest pre-school if there is money involved. Our government's de-regulation of ocean drilling and BP's careless practices have led to something that has the potential to devastate this part of the world.

The Gulf coast states are facing an almost incomprehensible task of cleaning up this mess. The financial cost along with amount work that will need to be done are beyond imagination and that is nothing compared to what cant be seen or fixed below the surface of the ocean.

BP and the others are chasing a non-renewable resource. The world's oil will eventually be depleted. There is a finite amount of oil to be found.

Destroying one of the world's most important ecosystems to retrieve this resource seems unbelievably stupid and short sighted to me.

While I realize that this was never supposed to happen, the folks that have been named in quotation marks above, have been warning us that this could happen for years and have been trying to make sure it didnt. I think, at the very least, they deserve the recognition that their worst fears have been realized and instead of placing blame.....maybe we should be joining them in their fight.