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Just watched James Carvall..not a real poster child for the anti democrat party.He is livid over the handling of the oil spill by the president.Obama waited 7-8 days to even visit the spill.It's been 38 days, this administration has basically said: "The oil spill is BP's responsibility"The region represents a huge percentage of the fishing industry in this country.I know I kind of made fun of the 'overreaction' at the first few days, even I am noticing that you can't let a large amount of oil to be pouring out nonstop for months without it eventually becoming a serious problem.Can anyone imbed the streaming video?

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Just watched James Carvall..not a real poster child for the anti democrat party.He is livid over the handling of the oil spill by the president.Obama waited 7-8 days to even visit the spill.It's been 38 days, this administration has basically said: "The oil spill is BP's responsibility"The region represents a huge percentage of the fishing industry in this country.I know I kind of made fun of the 'overreaction' at the first few days, even I am noticing that you can't let a large amount of oil to be pouring out nonstop for months without it eventually becoming a serious problem.Can anyone imbed the streaming video?
The oil spill is BP's responsibility. They should have some penalty where for every day the spill continues there is a penalty X amount of dollars. This might get them some additional motivation.
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Just watched James Carvall..not a real poster child for the anti democrat party.He is livid over the handling of the oil spill by the president.Obama waited 7-8 days to even visit the spill.It's been 38 days, this administration has basically said: "The oil spill is BP's responsibility"The region represents a huge percentage of the fishing industry in this country.I know I kind of made fun of the 'overreaction' at the first few days, even I am noticing that you can't let a large amount of oil to be pouring out nonstop for months without it eventually becoming a serious problem.Can anyone imbed the streaming video?
What exactly do you think this administration should be doing differently than what BP is doing?
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The oil spill is BP's responsibility. They should have some penalty where for every day the spill continues there is a penalty X amount of dollars. This might get them some additional motivation.
Kind of my original position.But the problem is that they have spent 38 days so far, and some people are talking about another couple months to fix this.Should the administration who cares about the environment sit around and make a profit while the gulf is being damaged for possible months or years?
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Kind of my original position.But the problem is that they have spent 38 days so far, and some people are talking about another couple months to fix this.Should the administration who cares about the environment sit around and make a profit while the gulf is being damaged for possible months or years?
As Jeep said ... what else can the administration do that BP already isn't doing? Is there some magical enchantment that the Obama administration can dole out that will stop this. I would rather leave it to someone who supposedly knows what they are doing. After all is said and done, I would go back and see if there were any contingency plans for this type of thing and then see the why and how it was not contained in a better way from the start. If you were an oil company all you are seeing is your profits getting away from you (via the leak) and even more money out of your pockets (the fines) so it seems that it is in their BEST interest to fix this as quick as possible.
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You know how I'd fix the oil leak?10. Choke the bitch off.9. Sop it up with a biscuit.8. Get Al Sharpton to boycott it.7. Have Andre Dawson talk to it.6. Send Ben Wallace, he'll stop it.5. Use the oil to deep fry all the shrimp in the gulf.4. Hide the pipe in Michael Irvin's glove compartment.3. Plug the hole with Gilbert Brown.2. Send Jamaal Tinsley over with a dust pan.1. Have Bud Adams move the oil to Tennessee.Stolen from the Dan Lebatard show and there's maybe three other people that are going to get this.

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What should the government be doing?Probably not sit back and hope BP is doing their best?
I asked you exactly what you think obama's administration should be doing.Do you even have an argument or position?Some people would argue that the previous administration contributed to lazy enforcement of safety regulations, which directly led to safety mechanisms like blowout preventers failing, such as this case. What do you say to that?
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I asked you exactly what you think obama's administration should be doing.Do you even have an argument or position?Some people would argue that the previous administration contributed to lazy enforcement of safety regulations, which directly led to safety mechanisms like blowout preventers failing, such as this case. What do you say to that?
?"It's Bush's Fault?"What do I say to that?Hmm...I guess you got me. The oil can continue to flow unchecked for moths, as long as it's Bush's fault.
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Interesting little story:
In at least one case, according to a new report from the Interior Department's acting inspector general, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work.
Once again, it's the war on drugs that caused this.We need to make Meth legal so things like this don't happen
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Here's the thing, though. BP has about 100 times more knowledge about how to plug one of these holes that the Government does, so other than exerting pressure on BP to fix it faster, I don't know what anyone thinks the government can do that BP can'tOther than a small contained nuclear blast, which I heard worked in stopping one of these leaks in russia. The reason BP doesn't want to do this, I've heard, is it would make the field undrillable.

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Overall, I have to agree that this is BP's problem. I can't believe that oil companies don't have a method for dealing with this. Did they think it was impossible?This is not Obama's fault, and it's apparently a tough engineering problem. Having said that, the Dems deserve to pay in exactly the same way they made Bush pay for that act of nature near New Orleans.

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This is not Obama's fault, and it's apparently a tough engineering problem. Having said that, the Dems deserve to pay in exactly the same way they made Bush pay for that act of nature near New Orleans.
Why? Two wrongs don't make a right.
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Why? Two wrongs don't make a right.
True. My original thought was that maybe it would make them think next time, but then I remembered, this is politics, it doesn't work like the real world.
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True. My original thought was that maybe it would make them think next time, but then I remembered, this is politics, it doesn't work like the real world.
also, the situations are not quite the same. Clean up from Natural disasters and maintaining the contition of levy's is the realm of the federal government. And while I think blaming W specifically for it wasn't fair, since the president is the personification of the federal government in most people's minds ( who have little real clue how the gov. works) him getting the blame is understandable. But this is a man made disaster, by a private company, that should have a contingency plan already in place for just such an event.
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I'm sure this is already happening to a certain extent, but why isn't the government taking their most knowledgeable/capable/creative minds and putting them to work right along side BP (who clearly has a higher level of expertise) to figure this thing out. I don't like the whole sit back and watch over BP stance, but then again I have to agree that BP is going to be able to do it quicker than just the government would be able to. That being said though, why aren't we employing every resource to try and help with this thing.I guess one thought is that BP is refusing help? I heard, and I'm not sure if it is true, that numerous countries have offered to help with the cleanup and BP has declined. WTF..

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I'm sure this is already happening to a certain extent, but why isn't the government taking their most knowledgeable/capable/creative minds and putting them to work right along side BP (who clearly has a higher level of expertise) to figure this thing out. I don't like the whole sit back and watch over BP stance, but then again I have to agree that BP is going to be able to do it quicker than just the government would be able to. That being said though, why aren't we employing every resource to try and help with this thing.I guess one thought is that BP is refusing help? I heard, and I'm not sure if it is true, that numerous countries have offered to help with the cleanup and BP has declined. WTF..
It's because the cunts don't want to do anything to risk their oil field.
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Here's the thing, though. BP has about 100 times more knowledge about how to plug one of these holes that the Government does,
this hasn't stopped the government before (not knowing anything)... see health care -
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I'm sure this is already happening to a certain extent, but why isn't the government taking their most knowledgeable/capable/creative minds
I had to stop here because the brightest minds working for Obama don't seem to understand freshman level economics. I think petroleum engineering might be a bit of a stretch for them.
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I had to stop here because the brightest minds working for Obama don't seem to understand freshman level economics.
super sighs
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So obviously there are plenty of things the administration could be doing..
aren't you anti-government, pro-privatization, pro-free market everything? shouldn't you be asking, 'why isn't the free market/private capital handling this better?'
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I had to stop here because the brightest minds working for Obama don't seem to understand freshman level economics. I think petroleum engineering might be a bit of a stretch for them.
I'm pretty sure that the people who work for Obama teach freshman year economics at Harvard...
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aren't you anti-government, pro-privatization, pro-free market everything? shouldn't you be asking, 'why isn't the free market/private capital handling this better?'
I don't think that describes me at all.I've said before, I want capitalism with a bit of socialism.Ayn Rand style capitalism would fail in the long run.I admit that my main motive is to stick it to Obama, after all, his response has been pretty meh. [Other than today's announcement that this gives him full justification to consider banning all off shore drilling. Just a month after announcing that off shore drilling was going to get his support.]But I also kind of expected that something would have been done about this by now. It's been 39 days now. Apparently this isn't going to be fixed anytime soon. I would bet most of us would have lost money betting the over/under on how long before they stop the flow of oil into the gulf with the line set at 35 days.And as Henry pointed out, Obama is getting way too much of a pass for his actions to date.
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