I did go to D’s link on maddow’s remarks on being president. I suppose checking with the scum of America once in a while to see if anything has changed is not a bad thing.
Maddow is the scum of humanity, -unless you hate America and want to destroy America. The one thing maddow got right was the fact Obama surrounds himself with lawyers, full of bull shit academia, radical thugs like van jones, sickhead pelosi reid types that pray to big gov to wipe their butt, …, -to get advice, to write law.
ok, the sickhead maddow did not say that exactly, -she did say Obama did not -and has not Yet taken in all of the offers of help from many countries with the expertise and ships necessary to clean up the Gulf Before The Oil Ever Hit Shore!!! Well No Shit, Tracy!!! So you waste several minutes listening to her ignorance on energy to get that jewel of info.
And I can tell you she used a helluva lot of BP products before even going to work today, -all of the hundreds of pounds of make-up coming from petroleum products, -but the left carefully ignores the over 100 years of BP serving the world to make the world a better place, -not a bunch of ignorant fiction lies about a freaking solar panel saving mankind. Solar accounted for .2% of American energy in 2009, -and only because of gov subsidy. I love solar, wind, natural gas in large trucks, nuclear, etc. myself, -but the discussion should be kept in perspective of reality with some truth. Truth is not what you get from scum like maddow.
And you might ask obama/maddow jsut how much control they have over several countries drilling/contracted to drill -in the Gulf -in waters controlled by Cuba? This drilling will be just as close -as the 50 miles the BP rig was from shore.
China is an example, dictator/capitalist as it is. China will lead the world in burning fossil fuel, using fossil fuel, nuclear power, solar power, -all kinds of power.
Because they have to, -to feed their people, to give their people a chance at a life. China is more American than anything this Obama slug ever did, -in that China solves problems of deep drilling and cleanup, -they don’t say 1 patient died -so we don’t do heart surgery anymore [they don't say one tooth had to be pulled -so we will out-law dentistry in America.
There are several countries with the expertise to have cleaned up the oil before the oil hit shore -if Obama had acted to bring in their help and expertise on Day 1.
A real American prez would have done this on Day 1 in conjunction with -and arm in arm with -BP -to fix the problem. But hate pointing is classic Obama all issues.
Hate is the Obama answer to all issues: Obama only needs a few more Mexican voters so the Mexican border will be open [gov takeover of health care and banks [bribes to achieve any goal [finan reform without addressing the root cause of the 2008 meltdown -such as Fannie and Freddie [shutting down offshore drilling causing more damage to the Gulf than the oil spill [appointments of van jones types as czars to bypass all law and the Constitution with the power to decide who gets taxpayer money and how much [spend taxpayer money to spread hate for Fox news, the tea party, anyone objecting to the Obama mission [...
You don't go to a scientist with 6 degrees to fix a water leak in your house, -you would call a plumber. You can't be the Obama narcissistic baby on every problem. If you want to solve the oil spill problem, -you have to consult with a room full of oil & gas folks that actually know Something about the problem. Have a Good Week! JayR
[[Obama Administration and BP Turned Down Dutch Oil Skimmers on Day 3
U.S. and BP slow to accept Dutch expertise
By LOREN STEFFY - Houston Chronicle – 06/08/2010
Three days after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch government offered to help.
It was willing to provide ships outfitted with oil-skimming booms, and it proposed a plan for building sand barriers to protect sensitive marshlands.
The response from the Obama administration and BP, which are coordinating the cleanup: “The embassy got a nice letter from the administration that said, ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” said Geert Visser, consul general for the Netherlands in Houston.
Now, almost seven weeks later, as the oil spewing from the battered well spreads across the Gulf and soils pristine beaches and coastline, BP and our government have reconsidered.
U.S. ships are being outfitted this week with four pairs of the skimming booms airlifted from the Netherlands and should be deployed within days. Each pair can process 5 million gallons of water a day, removing 20,000 tons of oil and sludge.
At that rate, how much more oil could have been removed from the Gulf during the past month?
The uncoordinated response to an offer of assistance has become characteristic of this disaster’s response. Too often, BP and the government don’t seem to know what the other is doing, and the response has seemed too slow and too confused.
Federal law has also hampered the assistance. The Jones Act, the maritime law that requires all goods be carried in U.S. waters by U.S.-flagged ships, has prevented Dutch ships with spill-fighting equipment from entering U.S. coastal areas.
“What’s wrong with accepting outside help?” Visser asked. “If there’s a country that’s experienced with building dikes and managing water, it’s the Netherlands.”
Even if, three days after the rig exploded, it seemed as if the Dutch equipment and expertise wasn’t needed, wouldn’t it have been better to accept it, to err on the side of having too many resources available rather than not enough?
BP has been inundated with well-intentioned cleanup suggestions, but the Dutch offer was different. It came through official channels, from a government offering to share its demonstrated expertise.
Many in the U.S., including the president, have expressed frustration with the handling of the cleanup. In the Netherlands, the response would have been different, Visser said.
There, the government owns the cleanup equipment, including the skimmers now being deployed in the Gulf.
“If there’s a spill in the Netherlands, we give the oil companies 12 hours to react,” he said.
If the response is inadequate or the companies are unprepared, the government takes over and sends the companies the bill.
While the skimmers should soon be in use, the plan for building sand barriers remains more uncertain. Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal supports the idea, and the Coast Guard has tentatively approved the pro-ject. One of the proposals being considered was developed by the Dutch marine contractor Van Oord and Deltares, a Dutch research institute that specializes in environmental issues in deltas, coastal areas and rivers. They have a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks.
That proposal, like the offer for skimmers, was rebuffed but later accepted by the government. BP has begun paying about $360 million to cover the costs. Once again, though, the Jones Act may be getting in the way. American dredging companies, which lack the dike-building expertise of the Dutch, want to do the work themselves, Visser said.
“We don’t want to take over, but we have the equipment,” he said.
While he battles the bureaucracy, the people of Louisiana suffer, their livelihoods in jeopardy from the onslaught of oil.
“Let’s forget about politics; let’s get it done,” Visser said.]]]]