The last I heard, yes, he is doing just that.Hey Goopher...isn't Obama opening up more coastline for drilling?
The last I heard, yes, he is doing just that.Hey Goopher...isn't Obama opening up more coastline for drilling?
Well the difference I see between Bush and Obama, is that Obama didn't take almost a week to actually respond or admit something was wrong and people needed help.
Think Progress KATRINA TIMELINE
^ A very interesting time line on how long it took bush to respond in any meaningful way, while pointing out all the various photo ops and such he attended while everybody was screaming for assistance and notifying him of the disaster.
Saturday, August 27
GOV. HALEY BARBOUR DECLARES STATE OF EMERGENCY IN MISSISSIPPI [Office of the Governor]
5AM CDT — KATRINA UPGRADED TO CATEGORY 3 HURRICANE [CNN]
GOV. BLANCO ASKS BUSH TO DECLARE FEDERAL STATE OF EMERGENCY IN LOUISIANA: “I have determined that this incident is of such severity and magnitude that effective response is beyond the capabilities of the State and affected local governments, and that supplementary Federal assistance is necessary to save lives, protect property, public health, and safety, or to lessen or avert the threat of a disaster.” [Office of the Governor]
FEDERAL EMERGENCY DECLARED, DHS AND FEMA GIVEN FULL AUTHORITY TO RESPOND TO KATRINA: “Specifically, FEMA is authorized to identify, mobilize, and provide at its discretion, equipment and resources necessary to alleviate the impacts of the emergency.” [White House]
Yeah, he did seem to have the response time of say, a turnip.Well the difference I see between Bush and Obama, is that Obama didn't take almost a week to actually respond or admit something was wrong and people needed help.
Yeah, he did seem to have the response time of say, a turnip.
Nobody would say Bush should have stopped the storm, but it was his administration which ignored warnings. In this case, even BP is now admitting that the information they were giving was wrong, and then they pleaded for help from the government, after NOAA put the well flow at 5000 barrels/day, rather than the 1000 estimated by BP.
Nobody would say Bush should have stopped the storm, but it was his administration which ignored warnings. In this case, even BP is now admitting that the information they were giving was wrong, and then they pleaded for help from the government, after NOAA put the well flow at 5000 barrels/day, rather than the 1000 estimated by BP.
They can't skim oil from the surface?
There go the gas prices again....
How come no responsibility laid at the feet of the government of Louisiana?
As for BP, all one has to do is refer to the estimations that BP based their drilling program upon.
Thats just riduculous.
Maybe because the Army Corps of Engineers is responsible for the levies? I mean the equivalent of what you're asking would be to blame the Province of Nova Scotia if the Naval docks collapsed in Halifax. Not a provincial responsibility.
Drilling estimates include having a working rig, with working pumps, drives, derricks, etc. The oil leaking now is due to pressure alone.
Yep, gas just jumped another nickel a litre here and my first thought was "what's the excuse for this"? and my second thought (5 seconds later) was Louisiana.
Are you referring to the levies built by the Army Corps of Engineers that had been there for decades? The very levies that had existed over many different federal administrations?
Why blame Bush for the one hurricane that made land-fall?
Using your example, you'd blame Harper for a collapse of the Halifax naval docks that were built before he was born.
Sure, but that doesn't change the fact that BP were likely referring to their estimates when they suggested the 1000 bbl number... BP is not stupid enough to publish and quote 1 number (probably employed to justify the project) and later scale it down to divert attention from the disaster (if that were even possible).
Was this warning and associated reports denied to the state and municipal governments?
The storm was bad because the levees broke, and the officials who were in charge of the levees were forewarned.
Quote me where I blamed Bush for anything. All I said was that his administration ignored warnings.
No, that wouldn't be using my example. That would be putting words in my mouth, and then using your own model of what I think, which is laughably wrong.
What are you talking about? That rig was producing more than 1000 barrels a day. The rate that oil is leaking out has nothing to do with how much the rig could produce. The estimates were based on ROV surveys of the site after the accident.