So when FEMA or other federal funds are expended in clean-up of the Gulf, will the Tea Party crowd protest the bailout of BP?
Addendum: Quote of the week.
“The liberals just want to blame it on big oil!”
-Sean Hannity, April 30, 2010
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May 1, 2010 at 7:45 am
anonymous
cnn says that the spill might cost bp 3million$. isn’t that like one day of profit?
bp may get a 50,000$$ fine. big deal. a couple of minutes of profit. they do not need bailing out. if you think the hypocritical tea partiers would protest a oil and gas getting bailed, you’re nuttier than a fruit cake.
May 1, 2010 at 8:24 am
Rhett Toriclan, Sir
Can’t the Fed just print up some more money to take care of this, like they did for the Bigmoney people on Wall Street?
May 1, 2010 at 9:43 am
scott LaMorte
No; it’s mostly lefties that complain of corporate welfare and bailouts, while the right complains about social welfare. Hardly ever the reverse.
May 1, 2010 at 1:59 pm
Not A Native
It difficult to decide what costs will be attrituable(legally) to the spill. But according to all news source to date, FEMA funding won’t be involved in the direct cleanup efforts. BP is liable and the CEO accepted fiscal responsbility.
If BP has the financial strength to pay the bills, direct public money won’t be involved. If not, this will become a historic event that will wipe out the offshore fossil fuel business. FWIW at least this spill will “redistribute” some of BP’s profits to “cleaner uppers”. But the environment will “pay” for that redistribution.
May 1, 2010 at 3:54 pm
edsvoice
May 1, 2010 at 3:58 pm
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May 2, 2010 at 12:09 am
Anonymous
Fox News is blaming Obama and the Coast Guard.
May 2, 2010 at 1:17 am
Anonymous
I wouldn’t be surprised if environmentalists sabotaged the well and the coal mine last month.
May 2, 2010 at 7:29 am
anonymous
Right, and it was the environmentalists who helped forge the documents that got us into Iraq.
May 2, 2010 at 7:56 am
Anonymous
An interesting point. I have been waiting to hear what caused the explosion. So far I haven’t heard even a semi educated guess, which seems odd.
May 2, 2010 at 9:59 am
Plain Jane
“Fox News is blaming Obama and the Coast Guard.”
Of course they are going on the offensive to deflect from the obvious dangers of offshore oil drilling. Blame Obama instead of BP / fossil fuels industry. It’s classic.
May 2, 2010 at 12:14 pm
Fred Mangels
Yahoo News reported earlier today that some BP bigwig said it was caused by “equipment failure”. Nothing more specific was given.
May 2, 2010 at 1:16 pm
Fred Jr.
Some news website-or-other reported that some guy said that something broke.
May 2, 2010 at 5:19 pm
brrdlovrr
i heard it was all cheney’s fault. why am i not suprised? http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/4/30/862414/-BP-Oil-Platform-Spill-Disaster-is-CHENEYS-Fault-UPDATED
May 2, 2010 at 8:47 pm
Anonymous
Regardless of whose fault it is, future off shore oil drilling is dead for another generation.
May 3, 2010 at 12:55 pm
Fred Mangels
This just in: NORTH KOREA DID IT!
http://the-right-guy.blogspot.com/2010/05/conspiracies-abound-north-korea-blows.html
May 3, 2010 at 1:06 pm
Eric Kirk
Savage’s intro is goofy enough all by itself.
May 3, 2010 at 2:10 pm
moviedad
It seems so crazy that there is no way to shut off the pipe. Heck, just send some divers down there with a big faucet. open the faucet, weld it on, turn off the faucet. Works for the water lines at home.
May 4, 2010 at 1:50 pm
robie Tenorio
The Los Angeles Times reports federal investigators are looking at Halliburton’s role in the disaster. Halliburton was responsible for cementing the deepwater drill hole–a key procedure to prevent oil well blowouts. It had completed the final cementing of the well and pipe 20 hours before the blowout on April 20. Halliburton had four employees stationed on the rig at the time of the gulf accident, all of whom were rescued by the Coast Guard. Meanwhile the Wall Street Journal has revealed federal regulators learned in 2004 that a vital piece of oil-drilling safety equipment may not function in deep-water seas but regulators did nothing to bolster industry requirements.
May 4, 2010 at 2:00 pm
robie Tenorio
That was from Amy Goodman on Democracy Now 5/3/10
May 5, 2010 at 10:25 am
Eric Kirk
It’s in the mainstream media already. Ironies.
May 5, 2010 at 2:22 pm
Eric Kirk
Meet the oil industry flacks hard at work.
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2010/05/oil_spill_damage_control_–_bp_has_wide_net_of_fir.php?ref=fpblg