What a crock! The ban is all about political pressure from the enviro-weenies and the hate-America socialist crowd!
“Political pressure”? What about the federal court decision against Salazar? Seems like that Court recently held the Department in “contempt”. Is that political pressure?
The O&G industry should do what Bambi does; just ignore the law and start drilling.
We probably aren’t going to resume real drilling in the Gulf until these stupid crooked bastards are gone.
Folks, this can go on FOREVER and saladbar and obastard intend for it to go on FOREVER or as long as they are in place. They are going to stand there and thumb their noses at us saying “not quite ready” until they go away.
They know they can refuse normal operations to resume so long as they keep saying they aren’t SURE it is SAFE to resume operations. The metrics of SAFE ENOUGH or that RISK has been MANAGED are purely subjective. There is no certain goal or condition of sufficiency that is clearly defined or that can be met.
BOEMRE are engaged in “rock management” at its best. You go get a rock that satisfies me and I’ll tell you when you get one. No specification just satisfy me when you bring it back. That game goes on as long as the manager wants it to.
Let me try an analogy on you. We know airplanes crash sometimes. We accept that because the ODDS are that you can get on an airplane and reach your destination with SOME level of confidence.
What if no airplane could ever take off until the FAA is thoroughly convinced that the aircraft is “safe” and the procedures are “acceptable”?
What if “safe” and “acceptable” meant that there is an iron clad guarantee that with no doubt whatsoever the airplane you get on will not crash and not only that, will have zero chance of having any problems at all?
What if the FAA bureaucrat made his assessment of the “safe” and “acceptable” conditions under threat that if any airplane he allowed to fly ever crashed he would be held criminally liable and go to jail? How many airplanes do you think would be flying?
Same thing is going on in the oil business right now.