Thank you for the post. I sent a link to the story to my Congressman.
Obama wants this,got to have those drilling bans and cap and trade
The Feds will fumble about until the entire gulf is coverd in oil.
The A-Whale won’t sail until the A-Hole stops playing golf and starts taking his responsibilities seriously.
Saw this on Fox yesterday.
It’s a damn shame that our gov’t is preventing cleanup progress, and this isn’t the first time they got in the way.
They sent workers packing that were already in the process of cleaning up because of beaurocratic nonsense.
Meanwhile a hurricane is on the way, probably not a direct hit, but close enough to postpone cleanup efforts for a while.
This is a foreign flagged ship and the union protectionism of the Jones Act prevails and is still in force. Foreign flagged ships are excluded from operating US-port to US_port or in inter-waterway to port operations.
The Obama machine weights all decisions based upon how it impacts the chosen winners. Winners are thus planned by those that know best. Gulf of Mexico residents and workers are not yet in the winner column — Unions are.
Novel Idea here-maybe:
FL or AL or MS or LA (ot all of them together?) should BUY the thing, flag it US and proceed to operate-damn the torpedoes(federales), full speed ahead...
Then, sell the oil, use the proceeds to pay the bills. Kinda like a business would do.....
From the Oil Drum...
The "skimmer" 'A Whale' has cleared Key West- what a beast.
http://www.marinetraffic.com/ais/default.aspx?oldmmsi=636014465&zoom=10&...