Rand Paul - "accidents happen" WTF??

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sure fix the problem..no one has an issue with that. But don't act like shit like what happened was a freak accident that no one saw coming or had no idea would happen.
 
if we're going to prevent this from happening again, we need to understand how it happened this time. Once again Rand Paul exposes himself as the cockhungry corporate bottom that he is.
 
Kind of ironic that you supported BHO considering his "Hope and Change" mantra.



Or maybe you're just a stupid faggot.
 
It's all just endless arguing. How much oil? This much, no this much. Who's at fault? They are, no they are.

How about everyone work towards SOLVING the problem instead? That's all that Rand Paul is saying.
 
You actually have a good point. It's like he's saying that instead of pointing fingers, we should use our energy to actually rally behind the cause.


I still don't know why this isn't a #1 priority right now. We are the fucking USA. Why haven't companies and the government come together to fix this problem right now?

We got people bitching back and forth over the god damn Arizona law.

And Los Angeles boycotting them.

We got people going on TV yelling at BP and their safety records and blah blah blah. Why the hell aren't they just demanding this thing be fixed?

Why isn't there some asshole politician making press conferences and asking for a cooperation to end this spill? This should be the number one priority right now, that shit is destroying our land.
 
They've already had committees between companies where they all just blamed each other.

The well is still leaking and they have already had meetings just to find out whose fault it is?
 
and youre stupid to believe all that rhetoric..and you voted for him too so stop acting like a cocksucker..damn too late
 
The fire/explosion would have happened anyways. And it's that much per wellhead. How many wellheads do you think BP owns, leases, rents, etc... ?

If it was so important, why didn't the UK or US mandate it ?
 
Because they need to stick to their party guidelines or be blacklisted. They need to follow their trends and listen to their peers and not step out of line. Because if a Democrat were to contact a Republican or vice versa and wanted to, genuinely, communicate and work out issues they would be a traitor.

Both parties have their dicks out and are trying to show the American public which one is best to fuck us in the ass with.
 
what and have big gov't dictating to private business..heaven forfend!!

then rand paul would REALLY be screaming about how the president was unamerican
 
Bea has spoken publicly before, but yesterday, one month after the accident, released a report of his preliminary analyses based on the information gathered.

"This disaster was preventable," Bea writes, "had existing progressive guidelines and practices been followed." The report lists what Bea believes are seven "Steps Leading to Containment Failure," also known as "blowout," including:
*improper well design
*improper cement design
*early warning signs not properly detected, analyzed or corrected
*removing the pressure barrier -- displacing drilling mud with sea water 8,000 feet below the drill deck
*flawed design and maintenance of the final line of defense – the blowout preventer
One of the early warning signs was belches or 'kicks' of methane gas, which came up from the depths of the well in the weeks before the accident. The gas was in slushy ice forms called methane hydrates -- but was potentially explosive. One incident was serious enough to shut the well down.
"They had a catastrophic loss of drill fluid into the formation," Bea says. "Gas got to the surface. They had to bring the rig to cold operation."


From what he's learned, Bea says, workers thought the successful response to that incident had fixed the gas problem in general.
Bea also says "drilling and well completion operations did not meet industry standards." He says the well was considerably behind schedule and some of what proved to be bad decisions were designed to save time and money at the expense of safety. Below is an excerpt from Dr. Bea's interview with Lisa Myers:
Dr. Robert Bea: There are time pressures that are extremely intense. And there are economic pressures that are extremely intense.
Lisa Myers: So you saw a lot of cutting corners.

Dr. Robert Bea: Sure.
Bea says the worst mistake was the decision to remove heavy drilling fluid, called "mud," from the drill column, as part of the end of the normal process to close down the well. Fine if the cements seals were working, he says. Potentially catastrophic if they weren't.

Lisa Myers: "The critical decision was the one to remove that heavy mud?"

Dr. Robert Bea: "That's based on everything we know. Yes."
The biggest underlying problem of all, Bea says, is that "we horribly underestimated the risk."
Throughout his interview with NBC News, Bea refers to the offshore drilling community as "we." He himself was once a consultant for BP, the lease operator and owner of the oil well at the Deepwater Horizon rig. He has worked with government regulators of the oil drilling industry for decades. Some employees on the Deepwater Horizon the day of the accident are friends and former colleagues.
Bea says all the companies involved in the Deepwater Horizon accident probably bear some responsibility, but that most of the blame rests with BP and the federal government, because they failed to properly oversee the project.
"These are not bad people," Bea says emphatically. "We're just doing dumb things."
Lisa Myers: This report is damning.

Dr. Robert Bea: I hope not. I hate damning... I hope it's constructive... I want learning to come from it. Not just more damn pain. There's enough of that around.
After reviewing Bea's report, BP spokesman Andrew Gowers wrote in a statement to NBC News that the company is surprised Bea has so quickly reached any conclusions, based on incomplete information. BP says with many investigations going on and so much evidence to be examined, "we think it appropriate to await those findings before further comment on the causes of this terrible accident."
Bea says he's been down this road before, after Hurricane Katrina.
He says the revelations about why the levees failed then are similar to the revelations about why the oil rig failed now.
"We had this long slide down this slippery slope of incremental bad decisions [regarding the levees]," Bea says. "This is following the same trail."
"I think we've got the outline of the picture puzzle," Bea says. "The details are still missing. But I think we got the outline right."



http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37279113/ns/nightly_news
 
I don't believe any company, who won't install a half million dollar safety device because its too costly (for a company that brings in billions monthly) or lobbies, bribes and makes backroom deals with regulators and any number of other shady things all done in the name of maximizing profits at the cost of safety to the general public and its workers, has accidents.

Especially when the shit hits the fan as a direct result of those things.
 
I'd rather have 100 guys like Paul in the Senate(on both sides) instead of what's there now.. basically a bunch of greedy, slimey fucks.
 


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