Let’s be accurate. Obama got more money from people who are (or were) employed by BP. BP itself - the corporate entity or its PAC - gave no money to Obama at all.
How long has this kind of slipshod regulation been going on with the oil industry? How many other of those 3400 rigs in the Gulf were signed off on with expedited permits? How many wells actually get approved by “standard operating procedure” anymore?
And isn’t getting rid of government regulation, stepping aside to let business do its job, part of the push for smaller government?
You can’t have it both ways. Obama and Bush both, in order to meet public demand to drill and produce more oil more quickly, approved drilling in a posthaste fashion. Everybody except the Greenies thought that this slashing of regulations was a great thing. Now that there’s been a disaster - because of the industry’s own impatient cutting of safety procedures- everyone is angry that the regs were bypassed.
Two months ago, everyone wanted drilling off-shore to be approved even MORE quickly, for the wells to be up and producing yesterday. Cutting corners was a good thing! It was getting rid of government interference.
What exactly is it Americans want? Because they can’t have it all.