Thursday, May 27, 2010

Ridiculous Spectacle

Obama thinks the testimony of the oil executives before Congress was a "ridiculous spectacle."

An even more ridiculous spectacle is the Government's response to the oil leak.  We are now on the brink of probably the most destructive oil spill ever seen on the North American Continent.  In the end, it appears that the fate of the states along the Gulf will be dire and will require generations to pass before any beginning of wetland recovery occurs.

The Congress, BP, and the President are pointing fingers but I think they have now run out of fingers.

The money exchange between Congress and the oil companies has been going on for sixty years.  This will be the generation of politicians who will be held accountable for the tenacious back room actions of all previous generations of politicians.  Too bad for the politicians, but it's about time that Middle America held the politicians accountable for any destruction of the United States.

One thing for sure is that the President does not know what he is talking about.  There are dozens of firms that do the work that is also done by Halliburton, BP, and Transocean.  (See http://www.subsea.org/equipment/drilling+and+well+services/listcat2.asp?cate=drilling).

 If the President was concerned about the actions of BP, he should have enlisted the services of many other in the industry to find a collective solution to a problem that is likely to occur at some other time in the future.

Above all, the President does not seem to have a program to deal with the next 30 days of oil washing up on the Gulf beaches and wetlands.

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