Thursday, May 27, 2010

"Fixing oil disaster my responsibility"

So says President Obama. I haven't been following this oil spill that carefully until recently, as BP did a good job getting everyone to believe that they would handle the situation. It is funny in the story the President claims the Federal Govt was in control of stopping the leak from the beginning but this is the first I have heard about them really taking the reigns.

I give the President a lot of credit here. He has nothing to gain at this moment for taking responsibility of this problem (see George Bush after hurrican Katrina) and with elections looming I am very much surprised that he is putting himself out on this limb. Especially considering that this such unprecedented territory and no clear answer for stopping this problem seem clear. I understand the need for off shore drilling, and as we can now see it is responsible for millions of gallons of oil each year, however I would have hoped the Federal regulators and the big oil companies would have a few better contingency plans in place in case something like this ever happened. It is a disaster and they are hard to plan for, but when you send huge oil rigs down thousands of feet to drill for oil in locations that man cannot get to, you have to think that at some point it could all go wrong. At this point I am all for sending Bruce Willis and his team of renegade down there to fix this problem. Hopefully the President can figure out a way to stop this, because it sure as hell seems like BP has screwed the pooch so far on this. I realize that is probably unfair to say, because of the complexity of this problem, but fuck big oil, take some of that money you are making and build a god damn underwater space station around this fucking leak. I don't know the answer but you figure the people that know how and have the resources to drill that deep could come up with a better idea than dropping a huge water balloon down there. Guess I am just going to have to deal with incredible high shrimp prices this summer! Fuck!

8 comments:

Timmay said...

It is pretty brutal. Obviously, they need to get this thing contained and there will plenty of time and resources to point fingers and assess blame later, but there are reports coming out indicating that BP was pretty much daring this to happen by working with malfunctioning equipment and not following standard, basic procedures for counterbalancing the intense pressure down there.

Talk about killing the golden goose, they are making millions and billions off of off-shore drilling, they finally get a Dem. President who leads the middle toward accept such drilling as necessary until we find other energy sources, the world is their fucking oyster, and then, BOOM GOES THE DYNAMITE, they piss it down their leg.

Since Obama is taking responsibility for the clean-up - publicly - that has to be a good sign that he heard something is working and it ought to be shut down shortly. However, he's fucked either way. If BP doesn't get it done soon, everybody will be asking why the gov't didn't take it over sooner to get it done. If the gov't is in charge, they are failing, and that will be his fault, too. Thankless job.

For Sarah Palin and her "Drill, Baby, Drill!" rhetoric, delivered like a drunken bar-whore, this disaster must be hard to swallow.

Big Tasty said...

I agree with you that something has to be working. The timing of him coming out and taking responsibility makes little sense politically if they cannot get this leak stopped.

I completely agree with you though, Big Oil really had the world by the balls especially in this country with free reign to basically use any means necessary to continue to find hidden resources. Now out of political necessity I would assume that Obama will have to put a stop to that at least in the short term. Which can only hurt this struggling economy as Wall Street seems to be completely ran on speculation. If by chance they find out that this disaster could have been prevented, I sure as hell hope some heads roll.

I am really glad I live in Wisconsin and not on the gulf coast, they seem to have problem after problem down there. I am sure they are only beginning to feel the sting of this spill, as it will truly devastate the local economy down there. What a sad set of circumstances in which nobody will come out a winner.

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