Another reason why our ability to provide energy for ourselves is so difficult - all the environmental regulations and obstructions. And yet, they blame President Bush. Like he's God or something. Just beats me.
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Thanks for the responses. I have to admit I am rather furious at the moment that the media is portraying the mayor as some sort of victim of the federal government. While I think the federal goverment was slower than they should have been given the magnitude of the impending event, the source of trouble ultimately traces itself through the governor, the local goverment, and eventually to Nagin and the New Orleans Emergency Operations Office. While other parishes seem to have been miserably underprepared, it is the situation in New Orleans that is currently the most dire, all due to the sheer volume of people that were left in the city. By not evacuating those necessary people out of the city prior to the storm (rather than after it), all other operations that typically take place on the federal level in terms of hurricane relief have been severely compromised. Rescue efforts and food dispersals that should be allocated to more isolated areas in surrounding parishes must now be spent on more than 100,000 people (in dangerous conditions) that should have been 50 miles west in Baton Rouge on Sunday in shelters. There they would have received the necessary treatment days ago and had power and telephone service.
I have faith that in the coming days and weeks that responsible news organizations will expose Nagin and his sham emergency operations manager Terry Ebbert for their inexcusable neglect. In an ideal world they would be brought before a court on charges of neglect but I'm not holding my breath.