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What to they have to do with it? How about massive engineering and the ability to take over an industry.
As for regulation I can't see where regs were lax, but enforcement sucked. I know next to nothing about offshore drilling but what I see tells me that BP shorted the required testing and work. I have no clue who is supposed to police the drilling systems on offshore platforms - OSHA? EPA? Energy Department? |
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No, the point I'm making (obviously not well) is that a government that can take over the largest company on the planet and put people on the moon should have no hesitation in doing whatever is necessary to protect the environment and livelihood of the Gulf Coast.
I don't see the Navy or Woods Hole Oceanographic - people who routinely work at those depths on the scene. Hell, call Clive Cussler and get NUMA down there. The lack of action by the government almost criminal. We have a 700 ship navy and yet they are hoping a bunch of cajuns from the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company throwing haybales in the ocean are going to protect thousands of miles of wetlands. It's damned easy to say we want to be green, but when the rubber meets the road I'm not seeing much more than finger pointing. Shell Oil's former President was on NBC saying that after a big spill in the 90's in the Arabian gulf, a number of Supertankers circled the spill and pumped the oil and water into their holds, then took it to a separation facility and returned the seawater to the ocean after the oil was removed. Where is that kind of thinking? |
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Bush's fault? you're God damn right!
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This administration jumps right in to attack an economic problem that is going to affect Big Labor and spends billions to stop it with inventive, never before tried schemes, programs and take-overs. An environmental disaster gets a scolding and handwringing. Quote:
You can't say you're an environmentalist and then sit on your thumbs when a disaster happens. Which is it? He's letting people that should know what they are doing handle it? But, has no problem putting the president of a phone company in charge of the world's largest automobile manufacturer? Which is it? |
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Why is Obama taking money from them at all? Is the best answer "because everybody does it?" I think Whitacre is doing an impressive job and that's the other point - why are we letting the guys at BP handle this mess if it's proven an outsider can do a better job? |
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but he loved his beer. "beer is proof that God loves us & wants us to be happy."[BF] I'll bet he liked chicken, too. most politicians do.
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