PotashRLS Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Who is ultimately at fault for the magnitude at which this disaster has elevated to. This is not regarding the explosion and sinking of the rig, but the response afterward to remedy the current situation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeramie Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Look, the reality is that when you pump oil there are certain risk. Its just part of a job like any other job. The track record of this industry is pretty good if you think about the billions of gallons pumped out a year. The old saying hold true though that its not how you fall but how you get up. BP had a very serious accident and instead of people buckling down and doing what they can to stop the impact on our environment they want to squable and remind BP daily of what this will cost them. I think the "officials" need to redirect their attention to the matter and hand and worry about who's "*** to kick" as our joke of a president put it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 At this point I still do not beleive we know EXACTLY what caused the accident..NOT going to vote yet..finger pointing wont solve anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RangerClay Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 If the nut job environmentalists hand not made us drill so far off shore, we might have this fixed by now. I blame them for the magnitude of the spill. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted June 8, 2010 Report Share Posted June 8, 2010 Bush was blamed for a hurricane, or at least he caught all the flack over how the aftermath/recovery effort was handled, so why not Obama assume some responsibility here rather than continuing to point the finger. Blaming/bashing Bush for everything still seems to be somewhat popular for some I guess.:wacko: The magnitude of the damage that has resulted no doubt has to do with the depth. Who exactly is to blame for the accident or cause of this happening in the first place I surely don't know, but think bp should be making every effort to find those reasons and making absolutely certain that if it was in fact a failure on their part that such a failure never happens again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterwebb Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 right now it dont matter who are why they need to stop the oil and clean it up and they not doing that and i dont under stand why they let the oil hit land then try to clean it up same thing happen in 79 are 80 it took 9 months to stop the leak that was in 200ft of water this one in 5000ft Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redkneck Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I gotta put the blame on BP. Obama didn't dig the hole, neither did the environmentalists, or W. BP dug the hole, BP's oil is now poisoning our gulf. I can't believe that as much drilling as we do, there aren't better preparations for the failure of a single man-made device (blow-out preventer). I honestly don't care how many man hours have been worked safely offshore, we have what we have, and history don't mean squat to me. I am very much for offshore drilling and don't want us to stop or slow down, but we can't afford another one of these in the future. I'm just glad it happened to BP, there's lots of mom and pops out there drilling too that aren't nearly as flush with cash. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
m gardner Posted June 12, 2010 Report Share Posted June 12, 2010 I've always heard "liars never prosper" and that pretty much sums this situation up. Everything to do with this situation from the enviromentalists to BP to Obama stinks. Dishonest people can't come up with workable plans from what I've seen over the years. When they get involved in the process there's always lots of finger pointing going on and we can't make forward progress like real adults. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RTF Posted June 14, 2010 Report Share Posted June 14, 2010 If the nut job environmentalists hand not made us drill so far off shore, we might have this fixed by now. I blame them for the magnitude of the spill. Enough said. Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hunterbobb Posted June 15, 2010 Report Share Posted June 15, 2010 If the nut job environmentalists hand not made us drill so far off shore, we might have this fixed by now. I blame them for the magnitude of the spill. Ditto :bang: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MUDRUNNER Posted June 16, 2010 Report Share Posted June 16, 2010 I feel that the response from both BP and Obama have been very poor. It seems like our government has not done a thing to try to help fix the situation. All it seems Obama wants to do is point fingers and blame on BP. There will be time for that after the leak is plugged. I also think Obama is consulting with wrong people on this. I'm pretty sure the solution will not come from Obama or a CEO from an oil company, but that seems to be the only people he is intersetd in talking to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnf Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 If the nut job environmentalists hand not made us drill so far off shore, we might have this fixed by now. I blame them for the magnitude of the spill. +1 Without their crazy rules they would be drilling in 500 feet instead of 5000 this would never had happened. I give Obama a good bit of the blame for the current situation. We had lots of offers to help from other countries and it was turned down. 52 days before even saying anything of significance? Really? WT? He still hasn't done anything of substance. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruttinbuc Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 If at anytime the leadership of this country, by this president is to be questioned it is most certainly now! He really dropped the ball in response to this mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted June 17, 2010 Report Share Posted June 17, 2010 If at anytime the leadership of this country, by this president is to be questioned it is most certainly now! He really dropped the ball in response to this mess. Obama seems to be continuing to use this mess to push his anti oil/anti drilling agenda. Heard on the news this morning that polls on how Obama has handled this are comparable to polls on how Bush handled the Katrina aftermath. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbHunterNY Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 I think BP is the most responsible, but the Obama administration could've and still can do much better. Seems like they left things to BP, as if thinking they will get it taken care of. Then after it's turned into an even bigger mess they're pointing fingers and worrying what's the best for their rep. This is just how I've taken it. I mean I didn't care who had the most accurate numbers and what studies were going on: I wanted to hear what the solution was going to be to stop the oil from coming out period. If there's oil coming out, you've got to stop it. You don't contemplate how much oil would be a problem. Any at all is a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 saw the hannity show with a panel of gulf residents...one women stated that Obamma "inherited" the oil mess from Bush....:jaw:..OH REALLY???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted June 18, 2010 Report Share Posted June 18, 2010 +1 Without their crazy rules they would be drilling in 500 feet instead of 5000 this would never had happened. Just so you'll know the oil & gas exploration industry's Gulf drilling and operations hasn't had to deal with a lot of the crazy rules like some other areas. Drilling and producition has been going on in shallower water at least since the early 1960's. It's only been within the past 10 to 15 years or so that the technology has caught up to making deep water drilling and produciton a possibility. The lure for deep water drilling is huge reserves that have been essentially exploited already in shallower waters of the Gulf. For example, the estimated oil reserves for Thunderhorse alone is 2.5 billion barrels. BP's blowout oil discovery is small by comparision with estimated recoverable oil reserves at ~100 million barrels. No doubt the initial blame goes to BP. Since then it's questionable. Obama sent a team of so called experts to the area shortly after the accident. From what I was told they were mostly lawyers tied to Congress. These people didn't know what they were doing but they thought they did. Here's 1 true story to give you an idea what I mean...an engineer was expaining an issue to one of these lawyers. The lawyer responded and the engineer told him "that goes against the laws of physics"...The lawyer's response was "we can change that law...we're congress". :wacko: Every action BP takes now to correct the problem has to be approved by the govt. Now that's scary!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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