[Travis McGee]

Excellent point and always worth making.

[nolongerademocrat]

Who is responsible? Kal Penn.
(IMO)

[Tarpon]

By all accounts official drilling process and methods was violated by BP upon approval of MMS — Depends on what you think is responsible for the waiver given by MMS to violate standard procedures of offshore drilling. Was it a payback for O campaign contributions? Was it authorized from higher ups? a czar maybe? Was it crony capitalism at it finest?

And then there is this problems with Deepwater Horizons inspection logs?

I suggest we won’t know until after Jan 2011.

[marron]

It should be pointed out that Brazil has drilled its way to energy independence, in deep water. So its tough, but its do-able.

All the easy stuff is off limits. Now they are going to try and make the difficult stuff off limits too, mark my words. The Brazilians can do it, but we can’t.

We have as much oil shale as the Saudis have oil. We’ve got so much oil off the California coast that it comes bubbling up through the ocean floor. We have as much oil off the arctic coast of Alaska as you’ll find anywhere, and if we don’t drill it the Russians will.

Just like, if we don’t want to drill off Florida, no problem, the Chinese will do it for us. On behalf of Cuba.

The technology for making oil from coal is almost a century old, and its been commercial for half a century anyway. So, why do we have to go a mile deep?

How much longer will we be allowed even to do that?

[Enterprise]

Meanwhile:

US government to loan Petrobras $10 billion to Drill 4.3 Miles down

[Sudetenland]

The point is valid, but irrelevant. If what has been reported is true, than BP is fully responsible for the leak. The company man over-ruled the tool pusher in an argument over what technique to use to finish the well. BP chose not to use some expensive but recommended additional valves.

Secondarily, Transocean, because the BOP was faulty - that is the responsibility of the drilling contractor and the tool pusher.

[muawiyah]

Krauthammer reads my stuff and eventually some of it penetrates his head.

Next, Krauthammer discovers that the federal government is protecting ANWR for the exclusive use of a single species that otherwise already controls 1/4 of Earth's land surface ~ THE REINDEER.

That's right, Reindeer control about as much land as human beings do.

Guess that makes them "special".

[Paladin2]

The folks who designed, built and tested the BOP?

[screaminsunshine]

A Dumm Ass company man on the rig.

[tubebender]

Read this and report back to me by 10PM...

[Teflonic]

If we don’t drill for it then neighboring countries including Cuba certainly will. They can suck our border reserves dry with straws from their side.

[snuffy smiff]

Just like the envirowhacks are also responsible for both space shuttle disasters.

These people should be locked up-for life. They are dangerous to everyone around them...