Re: Obama one of Greatest Teleprompter Readers of all time!

[mleuck <m.leuck@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Nov 8, 12:36=A0pm, "Doug" <n...@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > The BP fiasco was no mistake - nobody is THAT incompetent. =A0He had to=
 be
> > purposefully trying to make it worse.
>
> The reality is that after the event there was precious little that the
> government could do. =A0The US government should have had forced oil comp=
anies
> to have contingency plans in place to handle such a catastrophic failure =
and
> they should have verified the feasibility of these plans, not just take t=
he
> oil companies word that they can contain any likely spill. The MMS and th=
e
> industry it was supposed to regulate were just too close to each other.
>
> Doug

The other bigger problem was government regulations that banned much
of the coast to drilling forcing oil companies to move further out,
that leak would have been easy to fix had it not been more than a mile
deep.