100 Days of Oil: The Numbers So Far

[Dawg]

http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/07/ ... e-numbers/

good thing Obama is on top of this and pulled us back from the brink of a major disaster...like how he saved us from the economic crisis

Oh please please slick tell me how this couldn't have possibly been Obamas problem.
I've saved all those moronic things you said about the Bush administration during Katrina.
All I have to do is change bush to obama, and I've got your total argument covered!!

[ruggbutt]

That story is on Fox therefore it doesn't exist or have any truth to it according to Slick.

[Pudfark]

I believe that Slick derives most of his info from "Ewe-Tube"........

[callmeslick]

What response do you, Dawg, propose that could have been done by the government? There never have been provisions made for offshore oil clean up(as opposed to hurricane damage or displaced disaster victims in Katrina), so what could have been done differently?
The whole thing does point up the cozy relationship between oil companies and the government agencies, that Salazar was WAY slow in addressing. So that much, one could lay onto Obama. One could also suggest, as do my friends in Missisippi and Louisiana, that the whole nation overreacted, so who knows what was the best route. Yesterday, 400 skimmers collected exactly 1 barrel of surface oil, and the recent storms broke up most of the oil hitting the beaches, so let's just hope we can recover the region quickly. Maybe now, the government will address the much more important matter of restoring the delta lands, but don't anyone hold your breath.

[Wullie]

There never have been provisions made for offshore oil clean up

WRONG!

There are plans. They were NOT implemented. Private clean up companies were not allowed to protect sensitive areas or start clean up early on.

Foreign registered boats and ships equipped to deal with spill clean-up were NOT allowed to operate in US waters.

On the other hand, it only took Bush three or four days to allow foreign registered ships and boats to assist in the Katrina mess.

Your boy played golf and did fundraising, of course it's Bush's fault.

I hear there is talk of BP being on the next bail out list too.

[Wullie]

Here's a bit more info for ya slick.

Each morning seems to bring a new fool’s errand. On June 18, for example, the U.S. Coast Guard apprehended a dozen oil-skimming barges in the midst of performing their duty, and shut down their operations for the rest of the day in order to determine if they were carrying the proper number of life preservers and fire extinguishers. If the Coast Guard was so worried about safety, why not simply take a big pile of life preservers and fire extinguishers out to these craft and hand them around, so that the skimmers could keep at their essential job?

There was a plan and Barry fucked it up.
https://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/oil-messed

You decide for yourself if the author of that story is lib or not. I could care less. He's right on the mark and his name is pretty well known.