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A little exaggerated here and there, but much better than what Obama limped out with.
Course, speechifying is one issue==the follow thru is something else. I’ve seen Obama pitch a baseball.
Metaphors.
Oh no! Its Margaret Hamilton.
As long as we have ignorant backwards thinking morons promoting “drill baby drill” without consideration for the full risks and consequences, progress in energy policy in America will not move forward.
Regulations, inspections and strong enforcement of industries that, if mismanaged, can lead to a ‘disaster’, is not only necessary, it is essential. Industries like nuclear power, oil exploration, food processing, banking and investment all require our deepest levels of oversight.
The backwards and ignorant thinking of a large segment of the US population regarding pollution (global climate change), energy (pollution and resource availability), finance (unpunished fraud and legalized extortion), are all leading the USA in a descending spiral of failure.
Yep. When regulation pushes companies into more and more dangerous area, the answer is definitely more regulation. If this had actually been offshore drilling, we would only be dealing with a few hundred feet, versus a few thousand feet. Good job idiots. Your eco-paranoia has caused this.
Isn’t a deep water spill MUCH better than an easily handled one on land?
Obama could easily pass:
1. Require that all deepwater wells have a relief well in place before production begins.
2. Mandate requirements for double piping and a list of other industry engineering best practices. The prior best practice for engineering safety becomes the legally mandated minimum.
3. Mandate that each deepwater drilling operation be insured for at least $20 B of environmental damage before production can begin. Insurers will therefore require further engineering stringency to protect themselves.
4. Raise the legal liability cap for any drilling platform to $50 B, just to be safe.
5. All new wells must meet all of the above requirements, and all existing wells must cease production until they meet them. (The details here might need some work.)
But as Rahm Emanuel said, ‘never let a crisis go to waste’
#4–Derek==I know comments like yours are a failed attempt at humor, but too many TeaBaggers and LIEbertards actually think like that. Can you believe it?
Yes, humor is a dangerous thing on a blog. Best avoid it or you actually look like an idiot.
Well, she had some good points but that video got tiresome pretty quickly. There was no way that I could listen to her entire fake president speech.
I wish Rachel Maddow was more succinct in general; she always uses many more words than she needs to to get her point across.
Mike==you’ve been on a roll the last few days. Well Done, but why should any business have a cap on liability? I can see a cap on punitive damages, but not on damages actually caused.
What is your most excellent reasoning on this?
looks like US has lost it’s glory and fallen behind and can now join the rank of yet another exploited oil country that no one care about.. such as Nigeria and Venezuela and many other countries out there…
#8–Drain==actually whining he only wants a bumper sticker slogan he can cling to.
Heh, heh. Shaking my head–they really are just that dumb.
I agree that there should be no cap on actual damages. Punitive, yes.
#5–Anonsense==going for the “Double B Award” now are you? You have no balls in that you don’t/can’t respond to any challenge with facts/links/argument.
Now you want to establish you have no Brains either?
What an attention whore (hah!) you are.
#12–Anonsense==well, you don’t care about your balls, but you do want to keep your brains? Well Done. Do not falter from the true path.
Sorry, I can’t possibly watch this bitch.
Faxon–why not?
I can’t watch that fattie Rosie O Donnell, Whoopie G, or any other annoying lib bitch. Why should I hurt my eyes and acute sensitivities?
What he should have said:
1. A moon shot program for energy independence for multiple reasons:
2. National Security–can’t be funding the terrorists. Must be able to fuel our own war machine.
3. Respect Mother Earth. You don’t shit where you live.
4. Immediate 15 cent per gallon alt energy tax on oil to increase 5 cents per year for ever.
5. No nukes unless they consume their own waste products.
6. No ocean drilling until MikeN approves of the safety regulations which will also require use of tested effective acoustic shut off valves.
7. Immediate filing of conspiracy to commit treason to be filed against Repuglican Party Leadership whether currently in office or not.
That would be a start. Then we could move on to a robust social program.
Faxon, Rachel scares you, doesn’t she?
Faxon/Faxoff==”It hurts my eyes?” Better watch out, Monty Python might sue you for comedy infringement. They said “Hurts my Brain” but I think your rendition is too close.
So, what news/analysis does not hurt your eyes?
Frankly nobody cared we were drilling this far down in water until e had problems. This is the way Government has always handled this problems. We know about the risks but keeping gasoline cost down so that we can drive big vehicles is what America is about. We can talk a good talk. But I see very little changing from this disaster as much as Obama would want to make Oil a bad word. The majority of American’s do not want to drive small little electric vehicles and plug them in a night. This is all political posturing to make voters happy so that the Democrat’s don’t lose big time in November. Sad to say that even the grilling that the BP CEO will get by Congress is no more then a slap on the hands. What are they really going to do? Considering the fact Congress had a hard time agreeing to do anything.
#9 How libertarian of you!
well for one Obama can’t speak this fast. That alone would be an improvement.
Relief wells are just as hazardous to drill as the main one. There’s gotta be a better way.
I agree with Rachel, but so what?
We are not going to get off of petroleum any time soon. Auto batteries are hazardous waste also, cars will not run off of wind power, I don’t want an atomic power plant in my car,
I guess we could go back to steam power and coal as in the early 1900s.
#6 MikeN
1. Require that all deepwater wells have a relief well in place before production begins.
2. Mandate requirements for double piping and a list of other industry engineering best practices. The prior best practice for engineering safety becomes the legally mandated minimum.
3. Mandate that each deepwater drilling operation be insured for at least $20 B of environmental damage before production can begin. Insurers will therefore require further engineering stringency to protect themselves.
4. Raise the legal liability cap for any drilling platform to $50 B, just to be safe.
5. All new wells must meet all of the above requirements, and all existing wells must cease production until they meet them. (The details here might need some work.)
But as Rahm Emanuel said, ‘never let a crisis go to waste’
Why do Rachel Maddow and Keith Olberman use the exact same manner of speaking and diction? It’s lame.
That being said, her speech smoked Obama’s lecture.
#22–spiffy==exactly.
#24–defile==steam power is not an energy source, its an energy carrier based on burning carbon as is coal. THATS what we need to stop doing. I suppose burning our own coal instead of Terrorist Oil is a better solution over status quo, but its not the target of a sustainable indigenous energy independence program.
The problem is, since President Obama has said that he has taken charge, and that “the buck stops with him”, then what we were expecting from the speech was specific details about what he will be telling BP to do in order to fix the problem and clean up the mess.
Instead, we were told he is making BP set up a $20 billion compensation fund and that all our problems will be solved by cap-and-trade.
He did say that BP will be capturing 90% of the oil within the next few days. But he didn’t say how that is possible.
Maddow wants to put an end to offshore drilling. The only result of a US ban on offshore drilling is that the rigs in the gulf will be moved south into Mexico waters, and it will be Mexico that benefits from all the jobs and oil revenue.
Remember the 1979 Ixtoc spill? Mexico declared it has sovereign immunity and didn’t pay any compensation to anyone.
#25–Mextli==you realize you could have just posted your own garbage rather than pointlessly reproduce Mike’s fine work?
You said: “But as Rahm Emanuel said, ‘never let a crisis go to waste’”. /// The clear implication being you don’t think the government should respond at all when years of corrupt mismanagement is revealed?
If change does not come in response to a disaster, then just when should it come?
You are being silly.
Rachael did the speech Obama should have. No question.
Problem is, the devil is in the details. Just what “renewable technologies” are we going to use?
(Answer, none. Nothing realistically exists except nuclear.)
See post #72 on the DU main page under Consensus was phony.
And, just how are we going to help those in the gulf who will loose their jobs because of the moratorium? When the moratorium is lifted, if ever, who will then pump the oil when all the American expertise is gone??
And the worrisome “if you try to block us, we will pass it anyhow”. Good for a dictatorship. Which is what most of these crazy left liberals like Dallas wants.
Maybe debate to create the best program? Nah, Dictatorships don’t like debate.
“Never let a good crisis go to waste”. This is a good crisis. As good a time as any to create Obama the Benevolent Dictator.