From the VOMITORIUM
The oil spill in the Gulf is getting expensive and BP has set about making their PR campaign pay off…..they have bought all the domain names that they could so that when the word “ol spill” was Googled the first thing the person sees is the PR tape from BP…everytrhing looks good…all rainbows and puppies….
I have heard the BP CEO and many many political types saw that “we must make sure that this NEVER happens again”…….and how would that be accomplished? Do you let the industry police itself? Well that did not work out so good with this spill we are fighting now, huh? Then that means the government would have to step in a send investigators to EVERY rig to make sure that safety equipment is in proper working condition…..right? In a time when everyone is screaming about how large the government has become and now you want to grow the bureaucracy that oversees the drilling for oil by some 200+% to be sure that this type of thing NEVER happens again. In essence this would grow the size of government considerably…are you people smoking crack?
So the answers are either trust a oil giant like BP to police themselves or grow the government even more than now…..is that about it?
I have heard many politicians in Washington say the the government is not doing enough on the spill……these a/holes are the ones that have been cutting the budget of the EPA for decades and now they want a bare bones organization to have the quick fix….do you NOW see just how moronic this whole damn system has become?
As usual I have an idea…..I know I always have a better idea…..well better in my mind anyway….But first the new news out of the Obama Admin……
The Obama administration is asking federal agencies to identify how to trim 5 percent of their budgets, a top official will say Tuesday.
Peter Orszag, the director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), said the administration has directed non-security agencies to name ways in which they could reduce spending, primarily by axing poorly performing discretionary programs.
See it is just not the GOP that is moronic! If this was before the spill I would bet that the EPA response program would be part of this cut because it has NOT been needed in years…..
Like I said…there is a solution to this ever happening again….at least to my way of thinking, that is….
My answer is really simple, but it will piss off those who work bringing in the oil for our massive addiction……if you want to make sure that another spill does not spoil our environment and you want smaller government then the ONLY answer is…….OUTLAW OFFSHORE DRILLING!
There would be NO chance of a blowout like we are dealing with now and you would NOT need the governmental branch that would oversee such operations…..This would make CERTAIN of NO more underwater oil spills and would shrink the size of the Federal government…..it would be win-win for both sides of the aisle….
SEE! you can have your cake and eat it too!
Yeah, and if you don’t get up in the morning, you won’t get run over by a truck… probably.
Equally, if government wasn’t so busy poking its unwanted nose into things that are none of its fucking business, it would have both the money and the manpower to do the important things it’s supposed to do properly and it could still be smaller!
But people here want a guarantee……and my isea will give them that and reduce the bureaucracy…it solves both problems with one action
Of course it does. Youre quite right – BUT (there’s that word again)… We can also solve most of the world’s environmental problems (supposedly – if you believe the causes are as the climate change lobby says) by going back to horses and carts and log burning stoves driving steam engines or even horses on treadmills. That though would likely do more damage to humanity than the climate change brigade are forecasting for global warming!
You can cure almost all diseases too – sadly the cures currently available also kill the patients, so doctors kind of reluctant to use them, so I don’t think just stopping is an answer, If the cure is as bad as the disease, there isn’t much point in using it. The drilling CAN be done safely – it simply WASN’T!
We need the oil and we need it right now, but we also need to be working a lot harder on developing its successor – and we’re not – because of money!
Europe has been deep water offshore drilling for years with almost no problems like this, but we’re a lot more careful about it than BP apparently was in this instance. I’m absolutely flabbergasted both that they don’t have the methods and equipment already available and at hand to deal with this and that it wasn’t consequently dealt with in four or five days maximum. Truly disgusting in my opinion.
Additionally (as an aside), Obama should stop trying to bash Britain over this – BP is these days more than 50% American owned and run by any means of measuring and it’s HIS half that’s fucked up here.
Apart from that, I agree 🙂
The spill is approaching 100 million barrels…..hurray for technology
The problem is not technology – it’s the fucking idiots who have designed and used it badly!