In the 77 days since oil from the ruptured Deepwater Horizon began to gush into the Gulf of Mexico, BP has skimmed or burned about 60 percent of the amount it promised regulators it could remove in a single day.People want the federal government to do something? I thought the government was incapable of policing the free market because the government doesn't have oil experts. Why would anyone question what America's corporations are telling us? After all, doesn't the free market know best about everything?
The disparity between what BP promised in its March 24 filing with federal regulators and the amount of oil recovered since the April 20 explosion underscores what some officials and environmental groups call a misleading numbers game that has led to widespread confusion about the extent of the spill and the progress of the recovery.
"It's clear they overreached," said John F. Young Jr., council chairman in Louisiana's Jefferson Parish. "I think the federal government should have at the very least picked up a phone and started asking some questions and challenged them about the accuracy of that number and tested the veracity of that claim."
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Tuesday, July 6, 2010
A Grade Of "Does Not Meet Expectations"
BP's not getting the job done.
The government is useless until the wingnuts need it, then it's so incredibly important... then it's useless again.
ReplyDeleteAlso, I am shocked--completely shocked, I tell you--to learn that a corporation that has displayed its complete disregard for anything that doesn't immediately add to their bottom line to have not put up the effort to accept the costly consequences of that disregard.
Yet you don't say a thing when Government does stand in the way.
ReplyDeleteYou can't have it both ways. This is BP's fault but the Government hasn't aided near the way they should have.
Keep in mind they stated a much larger spill wouldn't reach landfall by their own estimates. But that doesn't matter
Corporations bad, Government Good.
This disaster has shown us a lot, our Government is incapable of running a single car funeral and we're too dependent on fossil fuels.
- The EPA needs to relax restrictions on the PPM just for the cleanup
- Jones Act needs to go the way of the dodo
- Why hasnt BP accepted Shell's offer for another large skimmer?
- Why is the US only using 25% of the skimmers they OWN and aren't subject to the Jones Act?
- Why did it take so long to give permissions for sand berms?
- Why did S.S. A Whale sit.
Maybe they just don't want a crisis to go to waste.
The Jones Act has nothing to do with the gulf cleanup.
ReplyDeleteNone of the foreign ships operating in the cleanup/skimming zone are within three miles of state waters. The Jones Act does not apply. No waiver is needed. The idea that the Jones Act is hurting the Gulf cleanup is a lie, Waffles.
Is oil on our shores?
ReplyDeleteSo why would we not be cleaning up oil close to the shores as well?
Because you want to deploy the skimming ships where they can pick up the most oil per pass, which is as close to the leak point as possible...50 miles plus out to sea off the coast of Louisiana, before it can get to the coast. Those are international waters.
ReplyDeleteBy the time the oil gets to within three miles of the coast, oil skimmers aren't going to do any good.
Ergo, the Jones Act never had any affect on the lack of skimming at the surface source point of the leak, dig?