Spill baby spill, slippery politics

He promises relentless support in the clean-up effort (new , low paying jobs for illegal aliens)
while defending his lack of response to the crisis (a total lack of experience). Obama is lame.

That is of course if your expert conjecture that obama will enlist illegal immigrants to clean up and save this mess.

I propose that any foreign national who helps with the spill be granted a citizenship.

In 1969, when people still used manual typewriters and rotary telephones, a Union Oil well blew out five miles off the coast of Santa Barbara, Calif. People attacked the oil washing ashore by skimming it off the surface, dispersing it with chemicals, and soaking it up with straw and other materials.

Forty-one years and many generations of technology later, BP is attacking the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico with techniques similar to those used in Santa Barbara. And just as in those days, choppy water and strong winds can make it impossible to use those tools to bottle up oil once it has leaked into open seas.

The news on local TV is telling us we will pay more for gas, shoes, all kinds of other products.

When BP says, "we'll pay for the cleanup", doesn't that just mean that they will pass the costs on to consumers in their products?

When BP says, "we'll pay for the cleanup", doesn't that just mean that they will pass the costs on to consumers in their products?

What were BP's profits last year?

The Interior Department exempted BP's calamitous Gulf of Mexico drilling operation from a detailed environmental impact analysis last year, according to government documents, after three reviews of the area concluded that a massive oil spill was unlikely.


The decision by the department's Minerals Management Service (MMS) to give BP's lease at Deepwater Horizon a "categorical exclusion" from the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) on April 6, 2009 -- and BP's lobbying efforts just 11 days before the explosion to expand those exemptions -- show that neither federal regulators nor the company anticipated an accident of the scale of the one unfolding in the gulf.

When BP says, "we'll pay for the cleanup", doesn't that just mean that they will pass the costs on to consumers in their products?

What were BP's profits last year?

Not really - because they will be in a very poor market position to do so. If BP takes a billion dollar hit over this, how are they supposed to jack their prices up 25% to cover costs? Their competitors will undercut the hell out of them.