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Originally Posted by silent_jay
Or maybe Barton apologized to BP because he has taken money from the oil companies, according to a story I just saw on telly to the tune of $319,000 since 2007, as for being '100% correct', even he doesn't think he is, as he's apologized for his comments knowing they were wrong as no gun was held to BP's head. You're just looking for a reason for this to be about 'the evil Obama', rather than at the real problem that your regulations are shitty.
It isn't 'the ultimate solution' ace, the ultimate solution is to have relief well mandatory to be drilled simultaneously along with the working well as I've said from the beginning, 3 months after the fact isn't an 'ultimate solution', it's a we fucked up and need to try and fix this.
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I don't get lost in political correctness, and I call things the way I see them.
The $20 billion number was not a number pulled out of thin air. BP projected its costs early on and they refine the number constantly, I expect they have a number now that is going to be in the range of about $30 billion that they will have to set aside over the next decade or so.
Again, looking back at my posts, I illustrated a hypothetical call Obama could have made to the CEO of BP, in that call what I described was a shake-down, pure and simple and it happens every day. Obama's administrations actual actions on their very real call was a shake-down. You and everyone else can play pretend if you want - I prefer not to.
I agree, drilling a relief well in advance would have been a good idea.
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Originally Posted by roachboy
that's funny stuff, ace. apparently you think barton was more correct than barton does:
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Actually what is funny is the notion implied in some of your posts that we could possibly have an industry regulated without experts from within the industry. You know the whole ...we let them regulate themselves...argument. I tried to understand your alternative, but it will never happen because the thought is oh, so funny- assuming you have thought about an alternative. I bet you think a bunch of academics with no rig or drilling experience can formulate regulations for rig operations, am I right or what? Keep it superficial.
Oh, and then the thought that a for profit company will make a legal political donation or use a lobbyist...oh my. How about voting for people with integrity and conviction - no amount of money would change my core beliefs.