Palin....

Alan said:
Didn't stop the Democrats using Katrina to bash Bush

Haven't really followed the BP spill thread but I doubt it was mentioned that just a few days before the accident Obama reversed a moratorium on offshore drilling. :o
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The Reps were rightly bashed over Katrina...Bush sat twiddling his bloody thumbs whilst people were dying. But of course you wouldn't notice that.
 
Hosehead said:
Not anymore than you'd notice Obama playing golf while the Oil catastrophe unfolds.
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Haha, let's not get into a golf debate comparing Obama to Bush...

"...now watch this swing"

Even if drilling at sea is more risky, those doing so should worry about safety before profits. Other oil companies had somewhere between 1-10 accidents recently, BP had over 700. Ridiculous.
 
zippy said:
The worse thing you can do is have presidents interfere. Rather have them on the golf course.
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As I said in another thread; Obama's being saying "plug that leak" "plug that leak" but the Governers of the affected states want the Army Corps of Engineers to dig sand barriers to keep the oil out of the wetlands because "plug that leak" isn't working. They've been asking for the Army Engineers for three weeks now
This can only be authorised by the US President.
Meanwhile BP has reached the bottom of their toybox and the oil is still spewing
I suppose Presidents should not interfere until all the wildlife is dead, all livlihoods are lost and all wetlands destroyed, all tourism gone, and everything polluted. Ok.
and now, today, Obama
has said he wants to know 'whose ass to kick' over the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
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Why doesn't he try and stop the bloody leak first?


http://www.rte.ie/news/2010/0608/gulf.html
 
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I wonder if she remembers this interview done in 2008?

Couric: Gov. Palin, I know you'd like to see drilling take place in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. And Sen. McCain, you oppose this. You call it, quote, "one of the most pristine and beautiful parts of the world."

McCain: Uh huh.

Couric: Who's right?

McCain: Did you expect two mavericks to agree on - (laughter) to agree on everything? Look, I … we just have, we'll be talking more and more about this issue. We do agree on the off-shore drilling and other means of limiting our dependence on foreign oil. But for us to agree on everything would make us, I think, a little boring. You can … say a lot about us, but we're anything but boring.

Couric: Who's gonna cave on this issue?

Palin: I don't think there's any need to characterize anything as caving. We'll continue to work together on this issue. And that issue is domestic supplies of energy being tapped, flowing into very, very, very hungry markets across our U.S. And we are on the same page there in seeking solutions to reach that goal.

Couric: At peak production, governor …

McCain: I wanna go and moose-hunt with her. And then we can, maybe we can have a look.

Couric: Experts say it'll take almost 20 years and it would …to achieve peak production … in ANWR. And it would still only cut foreign oil dependence by about two percent and only for a little while … so is it really worth …

Palin: Yeah, I don't know who the …

Couric: The risk?

Palin: …experts are who say that it would take 20 years. As the governor of an energy-producing state, we're supplying 16, 17 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy coming from my state. And as the former chairman of the Interstate Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, the geologists, the petroleum engineers whom I speak with are saying it can be done a lot quicker than 20 years from now. And, remember ANWR is a 2,000-acre plot that's in the midst of 21 million acres. That's not where the supply of domestic energy sources is, though, necessarily. I mean, that's not the be-all, end-all. Offshore is where the supply of energy is. And we'll tap into that.


The rest is here :http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/eveningnews/main4490788.shtml
 
People who take a swing at BP safety standards know feck all about BP or their safety standards.

They are one of the most jacked up companies on the planet. Unless you've actually worked with their prospecting and drilling divisions before, shut yer piehole because your opinion is being fed to you by people who don't know themselves.

That being said, regarding this oilspil....FFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU............
 
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