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What does 1% mean in regard to employment and dollars lost.....We’re not talking about local mechanic shops....these are HUGE oil/gas ventures
It one could contrive such; it cold almost app;ear that Obama gave BP enough 'rope' to hang themselves and hoped they would. We will never know if they had a little help; but bottom line; Obama, Inc. as guilty a Tony Hastings, IMHO.
This 'search for cause' is a politial ruse; America is on it's knees; Obama, Inc. needs us 'on our face'.
In court papers, the Obama administration said the suspensions in deepwater drilling are crucially important to protect human health and the environment from another disaster.
WRONG!
The absence of the Obama administration's foot dragging, delay tactics, inaction, interference, obfuscation and outright lying would have been crucially important to protect human health and the environment from this disaster.
All they were doing was racking up the claims to be paid by BP so they could run them into bankruptcy.
This is BS. While the moratorium might not affect a huge number of structures the NTLs issued have effectively shut down all drilling in the Gulf. We will all pay heavily for this and we should not have to. Salizar has wrongly said that the BOP from the Horizon must be recovered to understand how to make operations in the Gulf safe...this is just plain wrong.
Most likely the BOP failed because:
1. Four 80 gallon subsea accumulator bottles are on the stack as a common source of supply.
2. There was a leak on the hydraulic system to the stack and it was difficult to maintain manifold and accumulator bottle pressure
3. When the crew FINALLY did attempt to close the stack the hydraulic system pressure was depleted
4. Power on the rig failed and the hydraulic system could not be charged again
5. The absence of a properly isolated and dedicated dead man shear hydraulic accumulator system prevented the dead man system from working when the hydraulic conduit finally severed as the rig went down.
The annular tears are a red herring. I have seen annulars seal when all the steel fingers were mostly exposed. Annular elements are big and have lots of rubber and they work for a long time even after they are torn.
The failed ROV panel was a blunder of design as was the failure to not have a dedicated dead man accumulator system.
The destruction of the offshore oil industry is being done with extreme prejudice and with malice of forethought. This crime by this bastard president and his gang of thugs, tree huggers and other know nothings is going to cost us all dearly. Maybe more dearly than money.
LIARS. Or, "You Lie".