One month ago, on April 20, the oil rig in the Gulf operated by British Petroleum had a catastrophic failure and exploded, later sinking. The worst part of this is the loss of life. The second worse part is the nonchalance in the response - from BP and the Administration. The third is that this is an all too convenient excuse to ban offshore drilling.
Think Katrina. Even mention of the name conjurs up strong feelings of how the feds "dropped the ball" and were slow to respond to an emergency for which they were not the first responders. George Bush was dogged by the event the last 3 years of his Presidency, yet it was not a federal response issue initially.
After the outcry from the media, FEMA and other agencies got involved, but never to the level people would accept.
So where is the federal response here? Oh sure, Congress has held hearings. That hasn't plugged the leak or stopped the flow toward the shoreline.
BP has tried a few times to stop the leak. You'd think they'd want it stopped so much that they would try everything conceivable and would have used their manpower, money, equipment, and other resources to have stopped this in the first few days.
No end is in sight for stopping the flow, and no one seems that upset. The media reports on it like last night's baseball scores. The President only talks off-topic about how bad the Arizona law is. BP isn't saying anything although they apparently are doing something.
And so it goes.
Solve this, but keep drilling.
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It's terrible....this should be priority #1 for everyone and it seems they have just accepted it instead.
FEDs need to allow Bobby Jindal and others to do WHAT THEY CAN with NO environmental KaKa * they're stalling the states' efforts is compounding their ORIGINAL mistake of passing the rig to begin with...they GAVE IT AN AWARD!!
Karen,
There are a lot of resources that seemingly could be used. :)
Steve
Wallace,
That's right, they did pat themselves on the back - the MMS. :)
Steve
BP needs to be held accountable for the entire cost of the clean-up regardless of how much it costs.
All congress did with their investigation is waste time and money. Plans should already be in place for unexpected issues!
Kerry,
They have said they will pay all legitimate claims, but there appears to be more parties responsible than just them. :)
Steve
William,
Congress holds hearings. That is what they are best at. :)
Steve
The Obama Administration will use this to attempt to ban off shore drilling, rather than resolve the problem. At least Bush was trying to do something about Katrina. No one expected such a large natural disaster to take out all that Government housing. It was not self sustainable as it was created with tax payer dollars, and there was not enough insurance carried by the vitims in most cases. I had a lot of friends that volunteered months down there in N.O.
Obama is too busy making attempts at bad comedy about Arizona to be a President.
Michael,
His agenda revolves around him and not the country. :)
Steve