Jindal says Obama still doesn't get moratorium's economic impact

[TomCADem]

Source: NOLA.COM

With three shuttered oil rigs preparing to leave the Gulf of Mexico for foreign waters, Gov. Bobby Jindal ratcheted up the rhetoric Thursday against the Obama administration's moratorium on deepwater drilling, saying the White House still doesn't understand the economic pain the forced stoppage is causing Louisiana workers.

Jindal said he had a conference call with President Barack Obama's senior adviser, Valerie Jarrett, and appealed to her to shorten the six-month moratorium, arguing that a half-year pause would force oil companies to move drilling operations overseas for years and that the federal government could easily impose new safety standards and monitoring in a shorter time frame.

"She asked again why the rigs simply wouldn't come back after six months," Jindal said. "What worries me is I fear they think these rigs can just flip a switch on and off."

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"Mr. President, I get the fact that you don't like big oil and gas," said Jindal's recently appointed interim lieutenant governor, Scott Angelle. "But this is not about the stockholders of BP and Shell and Exxon and Chevron. This is about the Cheramises and the Callaises and the Boudreauxs and the Thibodeauxs!"

Read more: http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/06/jindal_says_obama_still_doesnt.html

[JI7]

1. how about the fishing industry ?

[Mojorabbit]

16. and the tourism industry nt

[sandnsea]

2. There are nearly 4,000 rigs in those waters

And most of them are still running. The lost of a few rigs isn't going to make any difference. The oil is in the gulf, somebody is going to drill for it. They're not taking the oil with them when they invest in wells in other locations. If they want to drill so badly, they should voluntarily implement the highest safety precautions including the safety wells.

[ThomThom]

3. yes they could probably get the time shorten if they showed

by implementing safety precautions with multiple back-up systems and have a real plan to implement a strategy of containment and clean-up if something did go wrong. I would ask for a huge bond from all oil companies that want to drill on American land or waters.

[wordpix]

14. Rolling Stone article says 5,106 wells; 500 in deep water & only 33 under "moratorium"

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/news/17390/111965?RS_show_page=0

Apparently, Jindal hasn't gotten the word

[Hubert Flottz]

4. Bobby wants to protect the oilmen who grease his palm.

Plug the hole with Baghdad Bobby...

Edit... Headline I'd like to see..."Gov. Bobby Jindal was out walking his gerbils and a shit eating land shark got him."

[No Elephants]

7. What does Jindal have to do with Baghdad?

[Historic NY]

5. He should tell him he gets it....plenty of transitional jobs cleaning up the shit.

[Jennicut]

6. But Bobby "cares" on tv.

The President never said he didn't like the gas and oil companies. We just had a spill of a century here. The rigs can wait 6 months.

[TomCADem]

20. Bah, The Corporate Media Ignore Jindal's Role With The Doer Act of 2006

Who sponsored the 2006 bill lifting the moratorium on deep ocean drilling that directly lead to this disaster. That's right. Bobby Jindal.

[madmom]

8. But..butbut....where was bobby and the other rugs when it was the

auto industry flailing? It was all.."retrain them"...why should we pay for them?"....."the exec screwed up, why should they be rewarded?"....karma is a bitch!

[LiberalFighter]

9. Jindal doesn't get oil spill catastrophe.

Jindal doesn't get the fact that fishing and oil don't mix well.

[iamjoy]

17. +1

exactly what i'm thinking. we need the moratorium until better safety measures and inspections are in place.

[FailureToCommunicate]

10. Bobby didn't care about the vulcanologists, why the sudden worry about a few oil

roughnecks?

[HughMoran]

11. No, asswipe, he doesn't like 'death and destruction'

Keep talking like that and maybe he'll shut you down forever. Dumbass.

[bowens43]

12. the economic impact should be irrelevent.

It should not even be considered.

[Doctor_J]

13. Doctor_J says Piyush doesn't get that there are more important issues

than a relatively few jobs in the Bayou.

What a pig this guy is for politicizing this Big Oil-made disaster

[primavera]

15. Jindal can go fuck himself

And I say that as a New Orleans resident.

[Devil_Fish]

18. News Flash: Jindal still doesn't get Oil Gusher's environmental impact.

Don't the former rig workers have some oil boom that needs tending? How about some oiled birds to tend to.

[wordpix]

19. how about monitoring the bamboo stakes that keep falling down