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Why Obama's EPA Turned Down the Dutch Offer to Help
moonbattery.com ^ | 6/16/10 | Gregory of Yardale

Posted on 06/16/2010 2:06:23 PM PDT by Nachum

Bureaucratic Idiocy at its most facepalmtastic.

The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. These are large arms that are attached to oil tankers that pump oil and water from the surface of the ocean into the tanker. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.

The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf 3 days after the oil spill started. The offer was apparently turned down because EPA regulations do not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean. If all the oily water was retained in the tanker, the capacity of the system would be greatly diminished because most of what is pumped into the tanker is sea water.

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KEYWORDS: down; dutch; epa; turned
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D'OH!
1 posted on 06/16/2010 2:06:23 PM PDT by Nachum
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To: Nachum

He turned it down because he wanted the spill to become a national obsession, helped by the media, so that he could step in as the big savior and save us from the oil.


2 posted on 06/16/2010 2:11:03 PM PDT by Leftism is Mentally Deranged (leftism: uncurable mental detioration)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged
He turned it down because he wanted the spill to become a national obsession disaster, helped by the media, so that he could step in as the big savior and save us from the oil. and kill drilling in the gulf forever.
3 posted on 06/16/2010 2:14:47 PM PDT by dartuser ("Palin 2012 ... nothing else will do.")
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To: Nachum

Pound this fact home, folks. Even liberals and Obama lovers are shocked by this when they hear it. This reveals his failure in a way that anyone — even a leftist — can understand.

My uber lib friends on FaceBook are even conceding the failure. This is far worse than Bush’s Katrina and illustrates Obama’s absolute naivete.

Hit him hard!


4 posted on 06/16/2010 2:15:06 PM PDT by agooga (Struggling every day to be worthy of their sacrifice.)
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To: Nachum
Original article:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/business/steffy/7043272.html

5 posted on 06/16/2010 2:15:33 PM PDT by secretagent
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To: Nachum

6 posted on 06/16/2010 2:16:17 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Perhaps the fact that Soros is heavily invested in drilling of Brazil, that the Bamster’s drilling moratorium has caused drill rigs to move to Brazil, - - could there be a connection?


7 posted on 06/16/2010 2:16:41 PM PDT by GladesGuru (In a society predicated upon freedom, it is essential to examine principles,)
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To: Nachum

So a miniscule amount of oil pumped back out into the ocean vs the larger amount pumped into it and stored in the tanker......

That is how the Big Givernment thinks.


8 posted on 06/16/2010 2:17:18 PM PDT by GraceG
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

Bingo!!!


9 posted on 06/16/2010 2:17:39 PM PDT by Williford
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To: agooga

The libs don’t even respond unless it has to do w bashing palin.

They are disgracful enablers of this communist regime.


10 posted on 06/16/2010 2:19:15 PM PDT by GlockThe Vote
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To: Nachum

let me give you a hint: UNIONS


11 posted on 06/16/2010 2:20:23 PM PDT by fish hawk (Hussein Obama: Golf/Gulf, not very good at either.)
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To: Leftism is Mentally Deranged

He turned it down because he and his minions are incompetent.


12 posted on 06/16/2010 2:23:23 PM PDT by Mr. Lucky
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To: Nachum

Read that earlier today. That’s the stupidest and most blind sighted adherence to dogmatic ideology I can think of! The EPA would rather have oil wash into the beaches, bays and bayous of the Gulf Coast than make a common sense adjustment to a stupid regulation. It’s better to leave 100% of the oil in the water than to remove 99% and pump back water containing approximately 1%. What fools!!


13 posted on 06/16/2010 2:24:14 PM PDT by pgkdan (I Miss Ronald Reagan!)
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To: Nachum
A lot of people probably believe that there's nothing any President could do about the situation in the Gulf -- so, they cut Obama a lot of slack.

As it happens, Obama could have done some things that only the President can do. He could have waived rules and regulations that are hindering the clean up -- or, even making matters worse.

The EPA's asinine rules about returning oily sea water to the ocean -- even though the process removes a lot of oil -- could have been waived by the President. (I'm guessing here -- it seems that the President has all sorts of "ass kicking" powers, so why not some "if you're not helping, get out of the way" powers?)

Another example -- Obama could have waived the Jones Act, to the extent necessary to allow specially designed and equipped foreign ships to help with the clean up.

Then there were the delays in getting approval for (supposedly pre-approved) burning of oil at sea.

There are no doubt many other examples. If Bush were still in the Oval office; I'm sure we'd be able to read all about them in the NYT, etc.
14 posted on 06/16/2010 2:26:37 PM PDT by USFRIENDINVICTORIA
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To: GraceG

Fact is, he doesn’t get it. He talked about that ‘straw; remember? Well, BamBam ,, start sucking the oil, be more than what you have done.


15 posted on 06/16/2010 2:27:23 PM PDT by gulfcoast6 (God Is!!!)
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To: Nachum

Is there anything dumber than a Democrat bureaucrat?


16 posted on 06/16/2010 2:28:21 PM PDT by lonestar (Barry is furious the big spill wasn't caused by EXXON...would have nationalized it by now.)
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To: Nachum

Better ALL dirty than 90% clean? What MAROONS!


17 posted on 06/16/2010 2:40:08 PM PDT by JimRed (To water the Tree of Liberty is to excise a cancer before it kills us. TERM LIMITS, NOW AND FOREVER!)
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To: GraceG

Your tax dollars at work by the best and brightest.


18 posted on 06/16/2010 2:44:43 PM PDT by IMR 4350
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To: dartuser

Couldn’t let the Dutch ruin his opportunity to take advantage of a perfectly good crisis. Sucks to be him now that it is blowing up in his face.


19 posted on 06/16/2010 2:50:34 PM PDT by La Lydia
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To: Nachum
Great comment on the site ~snip~

......(0bama)He is an IDIOT, a UNION HACK, the worst polluter in the history of the world (c'mon...BOOOSH was savaged as being responsible for a hurricane that lasted two days, so what does that make Obama?), a liar... It doesn't get worst than this. Posted by: Wyatt's Torch at June 16, 2010 12:33 PM

That's good and should get more print!

0bama = The most polluting president we've ever had

20 posted on 06/16/2010 2:51:49 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Ingsoc: Department of Life, Department of Liberty, Department of Happiness)
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