Negative Space: British Petroleum
- Bureaucracy or conspiracy?
- Is the federal government involved in a conspiracy to further the gulf oil spill?
- Global warming vs. oiled dolphins
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Catastrophic anthropogenic global warming critics are more dangerous than oil execs who kill dolphins, and need to be buried deeper than two million year old bones. But this makes CAGW a non-science. Science requires criticism or it isn’t science. Science-oriented media outlets are doing CAGW scientists a disservice by protecting them from competing theories.
- No cap on British Petroleum
- There is no cap on British Petroleum’s liability for failing to follow regulations. There’s a whole bunch of smoke-and-mirrors going on here.
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- The Helpless Titan
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“One of the reasons Big Government is so helpless in the face of an actual crisis is that it never learns anything, because it evades blame and consequence for its failures. The politicians who brought you the subprime crisis are richer and more powerful than ever before. The Gulf oil crisis may well end the same way, if the Democrats use a lame-duck session of Congress, plus resources from their new minions at BP, to shove cap-and-trade legislation down America’s throat.”
- Obama blocked clean-up of BP oil spill by America's allies; Failed to issue timely Jones Act waiver
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“The law itself permits the president to waive these requirements, and such waivers were ‘granted, promptly, by the Bush administration,’ in the aftermath of hurricanes and other emergencies. But Obama refused to do so after the spill, notes David Warren in the Ottawa Citizen. Instead, Obama rejected a Dutch offer to help clean up the spill.”
- BP Decisions Set Stage for Disaster
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“A Wall Street Journal investigation provides the most complete account so far of the fateful decisions that preceded the blast. BP made choices over the course of the project that rendered this well more vulnerable to the blowout, which unleashed a spew of crude oil that engineers are struggling to stanch.”
- Less Talkin’, More Kickin’
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“50 days in, and we’ve just learned another shocking revelation concerning the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill. In an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he hasn’t met with or spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward.”
