Minight; it puts me in a minority of VOTERS. As it stands right now, I believe I'm in the majority.

aw... the old Rush Limbaugh fallback...wow, never heard that one before.

"The only thing that is known is that Chicken Little's come out of the woodwork every time something happens."

Ah geez Webster, you are right about this oil spill thing. No big deal, move along folks, nothing to see here.

On a scale of 1-100 I know for sure it will be between 1-100.

now we see what BP's money bought:

Last year the Obama administration granted oil giant BP a special exemption from a legal requirement that it produce a detailed environmental impact study on the possible effects of its Deepwater Horizon drilling operation in the Gulf of Mexico, an article Wednesday in the Washington Post reveals.


Federal documents show that the Department of the Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS) gave BP a "categorical exclusion" on April 6, 2009 to commence drilling with Deepwater Horizon even though it had not produced the impact study required by a law known as the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). The report would have included probable ecological consequences in the event of a spill.

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=19027

looks like obama snookered yall, course hes for the little guy,
lol
not people, but the millions of little $ in his pocket


and

What caused that catastrophic, sudden and violent failure? Was the well properly designed? Was the well properly cemented? Were there problems with the well casing? Were all appropriate tests run on the cement and casings? These are some of the critical questions that need to be answered in the coming weeks and months.

Over the past several days, some have suggested that the blowout preventers (or BOPs) used on this project were the cause of the accident. That simply makes no sense. A BOP is a large piece of equipment positioned on top of a wellhead to provide pressure control. As explained in more detail in the attachment to my testimony, BOPs are designed to quickly shut off the flow of oil or natural gas by squeezing, crushing or shearing the pipe in the event of a “kick” or “blowout” – a sudden, unexpected release of pressure from within the well that can occur during drilling.

The attention now being given to the BOPs in this case is somewhat ironic because at the time of the explosion, the drilling process was complete. The well had been sealed with casing and cement, and within a few days, the BOPs would have been removed. At this point, the well barriers – the cementing and the casing – were responsible for controlling any pressure from the reservoir.


http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6462

Yeah goat, I guess Obama wasn't smart enough to order his cabinet to look around for these horrendous environmental time bombs that the Bush b@stards left us.

What other inspectors were fired so big business could "breathe easier?"

What other safety measures were scaled back so big business could "maximize profits?" What other tests were forged because a real test would reveal faulty oil containment vavles?

These grubby greedy oily con artists' will destroy anything for a fast buck.

BP withholds oil spill facts — and government lets it

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By Marisa Taylor and Renee Schoof | McClatchy Newspapers

WASHINGTON — BP, the company in charge of the rig that exploded last month in the Gulf of Mexico, hasn't publicly divulged the results of tests on the extent of workers' exposure to evaporating oil or from the burning of crude over the gulf, even though researchers say that data is crucial in determining whether the conditions are safe.

Moreover, the company isn't monitoring the extent of the spill and only reluctantly released videos of the spill site that could give scientists a clue to the amount of the oil in gulf.

BP's role as the primary source of information has raised questions about whether the government should intervene to gather such data and to publicize it and whether an adequate cleanup can be accomplished without the details of crude oil spreading across the gulf.

Under pressure from senators, BP released four videos Tuesday, but it hasn't agreed to better monitoring.

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Time to nationalize BP, seize their assets, prosecute their top people, and spend their money to fix this.

Umm, goat, who's defending Obama in all this? He is indeed also culpable in this mess (he's a politician isn't he?)

This is a catastrophe that supercedes political ideologies and your constant defending of big oil is as bewildering as it is stoopid.

(As for us overpaid federal employees, just what line of work are you in? I'd be interested in knowing.)

And by the way for your edification, Oil Pumped From Ocean Wells IS NOT MEANT FOR USA CONSUMPTION. The "Drill, Baby, Drill!" crowd are liars. Oil that's pumped out of the Gulf of Mexico or the California coast or Alaska's North Slope is not meant for or reserved for US ccnsumption. It is sold to the highest bidder on the world markets. China gets a lot of it. This would also be true of all the offshore drilling that Obama wants to do from Florida (east and west coasts) all the way up the Atlantic seaboard to New Jersey. We'd take the environmental risk but it would do absolutely nothing to reduce the amount of oil we have to buy.

This was clearly explained during Keith Olbermann's interview with Chris Hayes of the Nation Magazine a couple of weeks ago. The arguments also, speaking from the right, that the "drill baby drillers," like half-Governor Palin, that domestic drilling remains crucial to energy independence, the oil that's coming out very successfully right now, unfortunately, not into anybody's coffers but the B.P. oil and other companies in the Gulf and elsewhere, this is not--when it is not spilled and destroys ecology, it does not automatically go into the U.S. and does not automatically go into the domestic reserve.

It's sold on the open world market like every other barrel of crude that comes up safely out of the desert Saudi Arabia. Wouldn't that make that entire "drill, baby, drill" argument, (what's left of it after this disaster,) sort of make you feel foolish? Or do you just feel secure wearing those cute little ideological blinders that so much improve upon tedious old reality?

Thank you Gort, will do.