I am not mad at BP because they can't stop this spill.........

[KansasVoter]

I am mad because they KNEW that if they had an accident at the depth they could not stop this spill, but still made the choice to keep drilling deeper and deeper.

And I am mad that the US Government let the companies start drilling at a depth where they had exceeded the limit of safety!

[truedelphi]

1. Agree very much, but the kicker is that OUr government's Oversight Agency, MMS, allowed BP to

Have an exemption such that 500 million bucks of equipment was ruled unnecessary.

That 500 million bucks of equipment would have kept the oil rig and platform safe, prevented the company from losing the entire amount of oil they have lost, and of course, kept safe the eleven killed workers, the environment, the jobs and health of the people of the Gulf States.

So thank you, MMS!

<sarcasm meant>

[tiptoe]

4. Not $500 million exemption, rather a $500,000 exemption (leading to untold $Billions damage)

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&client=opera&rls=en&q=%2B%22acoustic+coupler%22+%2Bcost+%2BCheney+%2B%22%24500%2C000%22&btnG=Search&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=

[truedelphi]

5. Thank you for the major correction.

My spouse has been saying what you are saying, for the last 15 minutes, but neither of us could find a citation. (And I was thinking he was right, or wouldn't have bothered looking.)

[NNN0LHI]

2. They cut corners

Only a madman would think of drilling that deep without beginning to drill a relief well at the same time just in case something like this ever happened. I don't care what the laws say. Got to use common sense when you are playing with fire. And I don't detect a lot of that in this company.

Don

[obxhead]

6. There's not a lot of it in the entire industry

Unless we have major regulatory reform, it will happen again.

[rustydog]

3. I don't think they ever tried to STOP the spill, they tried to tap it

so that they could pump oil. 11 dead doesn't matter, the destruction of the gulf coastline and utold numbers of sea life doesn't mean shit if you are limited to 75 million damages and can actually tap and pump the oil rather than stop the destrucitn. If you stop it. Destroy the source, you can't continue to get insane excess profits. BP does not care, period. They never intended to stop the leak, it would not have been cost-effective.

[obxhead]

7. I believe they do want to stop it, but

not at the cost of the well head. If they could plug it in such a way that allowed them to access it in the future again, it would be done. Overall I feel the well head is more important than stopping the spill to BP though.

[Lorien]

10. Yep, which is why the WH is indulging the in all of this

sacrifice the gulf for future profits. They know tgat they'll get out of paying for the damages one way or another. :grr:

[Lorien]

11. ++++

You got it.

[Lil Missy]

8. Cheney deserves much of the blame.

[Bitwit1234]

9. I am upset because it hasn't been fixed because of the wild life BUT

don't you all believe that BP is dying to get it fixed. Look at all the money they are loosing with the run a way oil. AND look at how much it is going to cost to clean it up. I think they just don't know how to fix it. And like my son said to me, for not spending $500,000 to put the regulator on the well look how much it has now cost them. Stupid. And greedy.