Here is my other question…..if BP is now going to blow drilling mud and cement to cap the well, why didn’t they do that 32 days ago? I seriously doubt that is a procedure they just found out about. This just keeps going from worse to worse.
From reading all of the postings to this article, 2 things are very obvious:(1) Obama and his administration are getting you to focus your attention on some oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico, which btw is biodegradable and nature will take care of it, rather than focusing on the US economy that is a much larger disaster, in case you haven’t noticed, the stock market is down 1,400 points over the previous 45 days (2)since the major oil companies don’t have the technology to stop this leak, why would anyone believe Obama and his administration has an answer?
A catastrophic spill is simply one of the risks off off shore oil drilling. The oil industry created the problem, and it is the oil industry alone that has the technology, if it exists, to stop the leak.
The government could place an immediate stand down on all off-shore oil production. Unless international treaties prohibited our government from insisting that all current wells be capped, the risk of future spills could in fact be eliminated by this type of government intervention.
Politically, even reducing the risk would have its costs. The same people whining about the oil leak, would probably be in the blogs griping that elimination of 30% of our domestic oil supply caused gasoline to go to $5 or $6 per gallon.
I heard yesterday a reporter asking about how the previous administration was too close to the oil industry and that lead to the explosion and subsequent oil leak.
So this too is Bush’s Fault! LOL…..
Obama should look into the mirror on this one. This job is way over his head. Next time we should all think before we elect a one term senator who was a communist community organizer.
Get off your soapboxes, you right wing neofascists. All you do is criticize and spew invective. It’s getting very, very old.
Serge, you need to change your name to Johnny One Note…or, better yet, Sore Loser.
So, instead of more idiotic ordure, tell me what all you brilliant conservatives (and I use the term loosely) would do NOW to solve this spill issue if someone made you dicatator for a day?
Anything substantive in your brains…or just tired right wing (unoriginal and uninspired) dogma???
The fact remains that if the new proposed technology to cap this spill has “never been tried in waters this deep before” why the hell did “they” (regardless of which administrations bureaucrats were responsible) drill that deep in the first place? Is this stupid or what?
Hasnt the statute of limitations expired on blaming Bush…..
How about not waiting nine days to say anything about the disaster. Or maybe he should have been in LA, instead of having fun at the whitehouse with the Duke basketball team.
This guy is so far over his head it is funny. Maybe next time we will ask what kind of “change” and not elect a communist community organizer who has no experience doing anything in the private sector.
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Or should I say inaction of politicians?
I’ll bet if BP did this to the UK they would have stopped this leak in the first week.
Here is my other question…..if BP is now going to blow drilling mud and cement to cap the well, why didn’t they do that 32 days ago? I seriously doubt that is a procedure they just found out about. This just keeps going from worse to worse.
What a joke !
Obama can’t even control who walks into the W.H..-and he thinks he can do this ?
Best is a law which mandates off-shore drilling to no deeper than 400 ft ; where they would have much quicker control of a leak
From reading all of the postings to this article, 2 things are very obvious:(1) Obama and his administration are getting you to focus your attention on some oil floating in the Gulf of Mexico, which btw is biodegradable and nature will take care of it, rather than focusing on the US economy that is a much larger disaster, in case you haven’t noticed, the stock market is down 1,400 points over the previous 45 days (2)since the major oil companies don’t have the technology to stop this leak, why would anyone believe Obama and his administration has an answer?
A catastrophic spill is simply one of the risks off off shore oil drilling. The oil industry created the problem, and it is the oil industry alone that has the technology, if it exists, to stop the leak.
The government could place an immediate stand down on all off-shore oil production. Unless international treaties prohibited our government from insisting that all current wells be capped, the risk of future spills could in fact be eliminated by this type of government intervention.
Politically, even reducing the risk would have its costs. The same people whining about the oil leak, would probably be in the blogs griping that elimination of 30% of our domestic oil supply caused gasoline to go to $5 or $6 per gallon.
You just can’t make some folks happy.
I heard yesterday a reporter asking about how the previous administration was too close to the oil industry and that lead to the explosion and subsequent oil leak.
So this too is Bush’s Fault! LOL…..
Obama should look into the mirror on this one. This job is way over his head. Next time we should all think before we elect a one term senator who was a communist community organizer.
Get off your soapboxes, you right wing neofascists. All you do is criticize and spew invective. It’s getting very, very old.
Serge, you need to change your name to Johnny One Note…or, better yet, Sore Loser.
So, instead of more idiotic ordure, tell me what all you brilliant conservatives (and I use the term loosely) would do NOW to solve this spill issue if someone made you dicatator for a day?
Anything substantive in your brains…or just tired right wing (unoriginal and uninspired) dogma???
The fact remains that if the new proposed technology to cap this spill has “never been tried in waters this deep before” why the hell did “they” (regardless of which administrations bureaucrats were responsible) drill that deep in the first place? Is this stupid or what?
Cassandra,
Hasnt the statute of limitations expired on blaming Bush…..
How about not waiting nine days to say anything about the disaster. Or maybe he should have been in LA, instead of having fun at the whitehouse with the Duke basketball team.
This guy is so far over his head it is funny. Maybe next time we will ask what kind of “change” and not elect a communist community organizer who has no experience doing anything in the private sector.
Funny how when you argue with a liberal, they always revert to an emotional outburst of factless ridicule.
I think, therefore I vote Republican.