Thursday, June 03, 2010

Filled With Questions -- No Answers

Where are the Regulatory Agencies?

Is the federal government using all of its power? Every resource: both public and private?

Has the President attempted to draft supertankers to suck up the oil? Is BP doing anything to suck up the oil? If not, why not?

An oil spill in the Arabian Gulf in 1993 was addressed by ?; he didn't answer the question. But why aren't the world's supertankers doing right now what was done then – sucking up the oil?

Do we have an estimate of how many millions of gallons of oil now float in the Gulf? If not, why not?

Is there a problem measuring the oil flow? Don’t oil companies measure the flow of oil and gas through pipelines for a living?

Is the President satisfied that he now has adequate personnel regulating oil company safety?

Has he ended the "cozy and corrupt" relationship that he described in press conferences?

Has he killed what he called "the scandalously close" ties between oil companies and federal regulators?

Has he committed his administration to creating the capability to monitor and to enforce pipeline and drilling safety, both on land and off shore ?

BP’s executives are thus either guilty of making materially false statements to the government to obtain the license, of consciously misleading a government that was all too ready to be misled, and/or are guilty of criminal negligence. At a bare minimum, their representations constitute gross negligence. Whichever the case, BP must be held accountable for its criminal actions that have harmed so many.

Why aren’t we seeing pictures of the rig?

Why aren’t we seeing pictures of sites where the 19 people were killed?

Why aren’t we hearing of their rights?

The only thing that could make this situation worse would be if Bush/Cheney was President!