Rahm Emanuel: Joe Barton's BP Apology Represents Difference Between Democrats And Republicans (VIDEO)

Someone on Huf fingtonpost just said oil companies will make money off this (the longer it goes on) because oil prices will rise.

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Oil companies will make money off of this in more ways than that.



Not long ago, someone tried to argue that BP has a vested interest in getting that well capped ASAP as they are liable for the environmental damage that will be caused.



At a certain point, when enough oil and gas has gushed, that becomes moot.



I facetiously argued that BP doesn't really have a vested interest in getting it done ASAP. Aside from the cap of $75 million & a reasonable expectation of a favorable outcome from any judgments against them in US courts (the judiciary branch of government stacked with corporate wh.ore.s that let corporations game the system to escape justice), an argument can be made that by destroying the entire region ecologically, BP & all pro-drilling interested parties (politicians included) can & will push for an increase in offshore drilling increase, "since it's all ruined anyway".”



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Bob Dudley New BP Point Man For Gulf Oil Spill

In addition to BobbyJindal's & DavidVitters's request to lift the moratorium, we've already seen MaryLandrieu make a pitch for more drilling the very day after this disaster began. Obama hasn't shut down BP's other operations in US waters (Atlantis is potentially a worse nightmare than Deepwater Horizon and is still operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and according to reports last week, BP is moving ahead with drilling in the arctic). Obama's also moving ahead to lift the moratorium on offshore drilling in the Gulf at shallower depths, despite the fact that the Ixtoc and Montara blowouts that gushed for months were in shallow water.



If Louisiana's industries are 1) oil, gas, chemicals, and 2) fishing and tourism, and fishing and tourism is destroyed, how else is Louisiana going to make up the state's lost revenues if not by increasing offshore drilling?



And if BP were held responsible, 100%, for the damage & went bankrupt, the costs would fall to the US taxpayer (or it wouldn't be paid or cleaned up at all). Other oil conglomerates would step up & reap the benefit of unlimited drilling in a ruined Gulf of Mexico.



We need to get off of an oil economy, and not gradually. This isn't a job for the "split the difference"-"cut the baby in two"-Barack Obama. This calls for bold leadership.
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Bob Dudley New BP Point Man For Gulf Oil Spill

This is why oil-soaked boom isn't getting changed, and why the oil moves past it to soak the marshes and barrier islands:



BP's Windfall to the Rich



As Gulf fishermen suffer, a BP program to hire cleanup boats has resulted in windfalls for rich pleasure-craft owners, a Daily Beast investigation reveals. Rick Outzen on a growing outrage.

As the black tide of BP crude oil moves toward the Florida Panhandle, thousands of fishermen are trying to salvage a way of life. BP's lifeline: Vessels of Opportunity, a program designed to hire the fallow charter and commercial fishing boats to clean up the very mess that has caused untold numbers to lose their livelihood. But a Daily Beast investigation reveals that this much-touted program is far more effective as a PR stunt than a financial savior. Specifically, a large number of the 1,900 contracts BP has issued across the Gulf have gone to the owners of pleasure boats: doctors, lawyers, and the like, who use their vessels for Saturday fishing trips or family outings, rather than the decimated commercial fishermen.



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Bob Dudley New BP Point Man For Gulf Oil Spill

Someone on Huf fingtonpost just said oil companies will make money off this (the longer it goes on) because oil prices will rise.

=====================================



Oil companies will make money off of this in more ways than that.



Not long ago, someone tried to argue that BP has a vested interest in getting that well capped ASAP as they are liable for the environmental damage that will be caused.



At a certain point, when enough oil and gas has gushed, that becomes moot.



I facetiously argued that BP doesn't really have a vested interest in getting it done ASAP. Aside from the cap of $75 million & a reasonable expectation of a favorable outcome from any judgments against them in US courts (the judiciary branch of government stacked with corporate wh.ore.s that let corporations game the system to escape justice), an argument can be made that by destroying the entire region ecologically, BP & all pro-drilling interested parties (politicians included) can & will push for an increase in offshore drilling increase, "since it's all ruined anyway".”



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Rahm Emanuel: Joe Barton's BP Apology Represents Difference Between Democrats And Republicans (VIDEO)

Words, words, words, I'm so sick of Obama's words.



Action is where the proof of his and the DLC's convictions is, and the Obama-Kerry-Lieberman energy bill is a joke.



On Dylan Ratigan's show, former oil company executive John Hofmeister said it so well, that there's no serious effort to end the U.S. addiction to oil, no serious move toward green energy infrastructure -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPivXkamPbQ
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Rahm Emanuel: Joe Barton's BP Apology Represents Difference Between Democrats And Republicans (VIDEO)

Obama's doing nothing but waiting until the fall (or even later) for BP's solution (a relief well that may not actually repair what may be a blown casing beneath the rock formation) -- That's a luxury we can ill afford.



Obama has the power & the ability to transform not only the region, but the woes of the entire country, by seizing this moment & delivering what he campaigned on: A new economy based on GREEN SUSTAINABLE ENERGY DEVELOPMENT.



Obama's let every opportunity to undo the damage that Bush-Cheney & Republicans have done go by the wayside. Everything from breaking up the banks and Wall St. to real job stimulus.



Democratic politicians dream of moments like those we've experienced these past 18 months, to effect real change, to connect themselves to the People through their inner FDRs, but all that Obama's doing is channeling HerbertHoover.
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Gulf Oil Spill: Tony Hayward Attends Glitzy Yacht Race As Oil Spews Into Gulf

It seems that was more of a language translation mix-up. I think Frank Luntz is advising BP now, to say "up" when they mean "down", "in" when they mean "out", etc.



BP CEO Hayward still in control of Gulf oil spill response

By the CNN Wire Staff

June 18, 2010 2:20 p.m. EDT



BP Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said CEO Tony Hayward will relinquish control of Gulf operations

BP clarified Svanberg meant in the long term, not the short term

BP Managing Director Bob Dudley will take over long-tem response



(CNN) -- BP is clarifying comments Chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg made Friday in a broadcast interview, that BP Chief Executive Officer Tony Hayward will relinquish control over the company's daily operations in the Gulf of Mexico.

BP spokesman Andrew Gowers tells CNN that Svanberg was just reflecting a June 4 announcement about BP Managing Director Bob Dudley taking over the long-term disaster response. He said Hayward's current role has not changed.

BP spokesman Robert Wine tells CNN that Dudley's duties involve political and community relationships. Dudley is from Mississippi, a state whose coast has been greatly affected by the oil spewing through the Gulf since the BP-operated Deepwater Horizon rig exploded off shore almost two months ago.



http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/18/bp.hayward.gulf/
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