The health and security of the Gulf of Mexico are the responsibility of the United States, not British Petroleum. The administration has waited over a month for a cooperate entity to save something they do not own nor have jurisdiction over. They just have a permit to work there.
But to think after all these years they never even had a plan, in fact it appears no one did.
This will expose these unfathomably inept fools for exactly who they are. And it will infuriate the far left, especially the hard core environmentalists. The implications will almost certainly be as devastating to this clueless President as they will be to the coastline.
I hate seeing all that wildlife die a slow death while bureaucrats bicker.
I think you may have missed my point. There was never a time when I pondered as to how qualified or unqualified our government was to deal with such a situation on this type of level until now, much like most here I would imagine.
But that has very, very little to do with the fact that in the long run that body of water is our responsibility as a nation, not B.P.'s. as a company. This on several levels.
Seems like a covert attack on the US no matter what the circumstances surrounding the incident and the seeming handwaving since then. It’s fucked my plans to fish the saltwater marsh areas this summer and fall that’s for damned sure!
And BP-Amoco won’t be paying the bulk of the clean up effort, either. We South Louisianians are getting keel hauled with the loss of industry, health and recreation. The Crown Agents who run BP-Amoco will try to quietly shirk their responsibility - but they are most certainly not alone here.
I remember him going on about this as well a couple years ago. Stuck in my mind that he believed more oil leaked from fissures in the ocean floor each year than we have spilled in our existence as humans.
He may be right often, but he would appear to be very wrong in that particular assessment. The gulf does not appear to be digesting that oil efficiently to say the least.
As a libertarian who fishes the saltwater flats, grew up in the oil industry, and changed my degree from finance to petroleum engineering let me say that the whole freaking thing sucks.
I personally know three engineers that are in the same consulting firm as my stepfather, who are spending close to eighteen hours a day in conference rooms brainstorming, and have been for the past month. Their per diem is insane, as are the funds BP has authorized them to use for a solution. They aren’t sparing any expenses trying to stop this thing right freaking now. Did BP spare expenses before hand? I dunno.
With that said, this is so beyond anything our government is, has ever been, or will ever be capable of dealing with. The brainpower being deployed on this would put NASA to shame.
So what’s going to happen? Utter devastation to the wildlife along the gulf coast is a given, and the thousands of businesses that exist because of it. It’s likely that incredibly expensive and ineffective regulations will further burden oil companies, hurting the consumers here and helping countries that export to us like Mexico, Venezuela, and the Middle East.
Hopefully, but not likely, Obama will lose his job(yay!) but unfortunately for Americans who desperately need a little bit of intelligence to be displayed by the rest of the voting populace, his job will be lost for the wrong reasons. It will be because “the federal government didn’t do anything.”
I tend to agree with Rand Paul that the executive/legislative branches of government should go hard on BP…let the courts do it.
Sure, lots of oil leaks into the oceans every year naturally. It is also slow and spread out over the enite body of water. Rush can be an idiot sometime.
I decided to remove a bunch of unsavory comments about Limbaugh and the damage I believe he does to the right. Comments like he made about natural pollution are perfect examples.
Is there an incredible amount of natural pollution and oil seepage? Sure, but this is on a different scale entirely. When Alonso Ojeda made a return trip to the new world after coming over with Columbus, he found what is now Lake Maracaibo. They were able to tar their boats with the incredible amount of oil seeping up. And yet the Venezuelans blame the gringos for the pollution there.
You could be right, but the sad thing (other than the devistation this incident is causing) is that it’s making more lean to the left and those that were already on the left go beyond the point of no return. I’ve already seen U.S. citizens claiming things like “Hugo Chavez was right”, “Socialism not Capitalism”, etc.
I’ve got news for those people. Russia, China, and Mexico have been drilling and will be drilling in the Gulf for quite some time. Let me assure you, that those countries don’t give a damn what happens to our coast.
The USA should do a better job of enforcing the use of preventative measures and find a workable solution for if/when another spill happens. And then, drill baby, drill.
Well here’s the thing…the government, under Obama and also anyone relevant prior, have and still do enable numerous operations established in their territories which are clearly unmanageable as well as ecologically devastating. If we can’t fix it when it breaks, we shouldn’t be doing it at that depth. I see no way around this logic.
And I find it hard to believe that after all these years and all this technological development folks were still just sitting around content to hope that there is never such a deep leak. But no matter who is most to blame in the end, it will be the administrations fault for not protecting it’s own.
The loss of marine life as well as livelihoods will be something we will always remember. Sadly this may well be only the beginning.
If I had my way they soon would not be able to afford to operate in the USA. You’re right. It’s our responsibility. Get there asses out of it. And if any spills contaminate our lands I tow or sink your rig and detain those aboard.
