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Reading is hard and a waste of time. Just stick to blogs and what your friends tell you. Don't worry though, it's ok, that's what the faux news people do. Really, you can see how moronic the unthinking extreme is of the opposition? Get out a mirror.
You might consider that I have more direct information from those close to certain situations than the blogs have or than do you for that matter. I don't speak this harshly lightly. I do speak the truth.
I just did.
What's sad is that you didn't go to first source, you went to a partisan blog. Egads, that's actually a step worse than being a Faux News-er.
Basically, you just went Glen Beck on us...a show that makes me want to vomit in my mouth. Congratulations on helping lower the bar.
ermmm, I posted a thread on the 2004 regulation (or lack of same)
You might consider that I have more direct information from those close to certain situations than the blogs have or than do you for that matter. I don't speak this harshly lightly. I do speak the truth.
Doesn't change the fact that these devices have been available for decades and that only 2 countries in the world require them.
Now if the Clinton\Gore admin had put these in place and they were removed during Bush\Cheney then by all means there you have a smoking gun.
Heck, the past year has been completely democratic and yep, no shutoffs.
I take it you didn't read the article. How utterly surprising.
WHAT ARTICLE?????.....you mean the OPINION BLOG that you posted
a blog that claims that omehow or another that "cheney" didnt force BP to put in a valve???
the BLOG that FAILS to mention anything about the rig......the rig that exploded....was LEASED by BP....previously leased by Royal Dutch Shell...built in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard, Ulsan, South Korea
So, you knew that this topic has been ongoing for decades and yet you still blamed Cheney for it even though no one in the government has done anything about it for decades? Wow, I intimated that you were being dishonest in the OP and you just cheerfully agreed.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Cheney and think he's done a lot of damage but there's no way I'm going to absolve the democrats and lay this one solely at Cheney's feet after 20+ years of inactivity on the topic.
More and more I see there is one political party in the US.
So, you knew that this topic has been ongoing for decades and yet you still blamed Cheney for it even though no one in the government has done anything about it for decades? Wow, I intimated that you were being dishonest in the OP and you just cheerfully agreed.
Don't get me wrong, I hate Cheney and think he's done a lot of damage but there's no way I'm going to absolve the democrats and lay this one solely at Cheney's feet after 20+ years of inactivity on the topic.
More and more I see there is one political party in the US.
Decades??? 2004 was 6 years ago. Cheney's "committee" considered a safety device, which cost $500,000 was "too much of a burden" for oil companies the bear. How many billions is this disaster going to cost? All over a $500,000 device.
There is also a federal law, (which I intend to research) limiting liability for oil companies in this kind of disaster, to $75 million. That's a drop in the preverbial bucket compared to what this is going to cost the fishing industry, as well as tourism, charter boats, environmental cleanup.
WHAT ARTICLE?????.....you mean the OPINION BLOG that you posted
a blog that claims that omehow or another that "cheney" didnt force BP to put in a valve???
the BLOG that FAILS to mention anything about the rig......the rig that exploded....was LEASED by BP....previously leased by Royal Dutch Shell...built in 2001 by Hyundai Heavy Industries Shipyard, Ulsan, South Korea
Cheney didn't think a device to prevent the spill such as this was necessary. He claimed the $500,000 cost was too big a burden for the oil companies.
Before anyone goes any further, these switches have been around for decades and to quote the article....
"U.S. regulators have considered mandating the use of remote-control acoustic switches or other back-up equipment at least since 2000."
So essentially, both the democrats and republicans have had plenty of time to make these switches (which are not certain to have worked in this case) mandatory and haven't.
What a dishonest post. But hey, whatever it takes to make your party look environmentally responsible.
From the WSJ article:
Quote:
The agency, the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service, says it decided the remote device wasn't needed because rigs had other back-up plans to cut off a well.
Yea, that sounds like Dick Cheney's fault.
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Really, you can see how moronic the unthinking extreme is of the opposition? Get out a mirror.
Congratulations on helping lower the bar. 
