Opening the offshore to drilling. Whose lame idea was it to begin with?

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Well they are idiots. If the US tried to supply all the oil needs for the US, we'd last about 3 months at current useage.


Even throwing in friendly countries like Canada, it's not enough to really replace the middle east.
 
BP was warned that the Bop was bad, and not function properly, that audit company told them to top kill it before it even started pumping oil up, BP refused to do anything about this, bunch of greedy people, Hell, they even killed there own people on that rig.

BP was LAME, none of this would of happened if BP would of done what was right in the first place..

I have no faith in BP fixing this disaster, this next fix BP is wanting to do, is just gonna make oil flow out more
 
Nah, I don't even want to bitch at Obama, because that is to easy. It is obvious the blown well was BP's (or it's contractors) problem, but the leaked oil was shared.

Since when does the federal government have the ability to abrogate its duty for disaster intervention/cleanup?

Give me a break. They should have responded from "DAY ONE".

It would be like a huge forest fire in an area of the National Forest that had been leased to OfficeMax to cut down trees for the production of copy paper, and expecting them to put it out...

Some of you people really need to take your head out of your asses.
 
it is so fucking hilarious to see "constitutionalists" parade EPA policy/history in order to back up the claim that 'the federal government has such and such responsibility'. Where is the EPA in the constitution? I thought big government was bad. You can't have it both ways.
 
problems happen when you try and do something really really really fucking difficult.


Welcome to reality, the only issue is there was no real solid clean up method ready to go.
 
Easy response, but by law, after the Exxon Valdez incident and payoff, the Fed was supposed to have appropriate response equipment in the region.

It did not. Your choice; Blame Regan (most popular today. Dead), Blame Bush (Alive, out of office for 18 months, doesn't give a shit), Obama (Alive, president for 18 months, assigned the position holder in 2009, also does not give a shit)

Your point?
 
yes, well this bit of info is being covered up, you don't really think BP, and our failed government wants this to get out.

but this was dug up on OT main page last week, by a reliable source, I can't get on OT main page, my script ran out

guess I will shut the fuck up!
 
Obama just canceled pending lease sales off the coast of Virginia and in the Gulf.

He lifted the moratorium because we need energy independence. It was one of the few intelligent things he has done during his presidency. But now he seems to be preparing to shut it all down. Even some of the coastal representatives are begging him to not hinder exploration and drilling because it provides so many jobs to the people in Louisiana and other Gulf coast states and it would only serve to further harm the regions economy.
 
"appropriate response equipment". please define.

and more importantly, tell me which pieces Bush had in place that Obama removed. tell me which pieces Clinton put in place that Bush moved. tell me which pieces Bush put in place that Clinton moved.

otherwise, end this petty fucking bullshit.
 
I would rather suffer a terrorist attack than this environmental disaster. just how much energy independence are we buying by drilling off the coast?

and for how long?
 
if they "technically" didn't anything out of bounds then how do you punish them?

how do you bannish someone if they didn't technically break the rules?
 
The response plan was approved by the NOAA and was probably the responsibility of the MMS to be prepared to implement it which would explain why the head of the MMS was fired. I don't think the lack of preparedness can be blamed on any of the presidents. The point of having federal departments is to delegate authority and responsibility so the president and congress do not have to micromanage everything.
 
You can still prove negligence or that a company failed to do their due dilligence in drilling/completion. It doesn't appear they did anything technically illegal, but that doesn't mean they didn't do anything wrong, immoral or negligent. Read the article in the WSJ its pretty good. The corners that were cut by BP are truly disturbing, at least from an industry POV its pretty bad.
 
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