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You were saying ...

I'm not giving BP a pass by any means, but the coal mine cave in in W. Va. had nothing to do with them, the gas explosion in PA wasn't BP either.

This is what shows "how they operate" ...

From a referenced article, in this post -- Post #4 ...

BP's Horrible Safety Record: It's Got 760 OSHA Fines, Exxon Has Just 1

Back in 2007, a BP pipeline spilled 200,000 gallons of crude into the Alaskan wilderness. They got hit with $16 million in fines.
"The Justice Department required the company to pay approximately $353 million as part of an agreement to defer prosecution on charges that the company conspired to manipulate the propane gas market."
In two separate disasters prior to Deepwater Horizon, 30 BP workers were killed and more than 200 have been seriously injured.
"According to the Center for Public Integrity, in the last three years, BP refineries in Ohio and Texas have accounted for 97 percent of the "egregious, willful" violations handed out by OSHA"
OSHA statistics show BP ran up 760 "egregious, willful" safety violations, while Sunoco and Conoco-Phillips each had eight, Citgo had two and Exxon had one comparable citation.

Who's "they"? Do you mean BP or just energy companies in general? There's no need to prove BP has a horrible safety record, they do, that aside why did the regime give them high safety marks on this rig? If the MMS was such a mess "because of the prior administration", then why in 19 months wasn't this addressed. I'm not giving BP a pass as I said, but it seems to me you're trying to let Soetoro and the Chicago mob off the hook. We have an accident here, there'll be plenty of time to assign blame later, let's "plug the hole!".