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6/8/2010 7:10:58 PM
---- Updated 6/8/2010 7:13:01 PM
Sarah Palin's latest thoughts on the oil spill crisis..
First I must disagree with Sarah that this should have ever have been a confrontational issue with BP and for her to follow the current administration's logic on this matter is disappointing. At the onset of the crisis we needed strong leadership, not finger pointing, public threats and posturing. The initial focus should have been containment of the spill and accepting all the offers help from the 17 countries and 4 global organizations who would have focused on doing just that should have obviously been the first order of business. And next a cooperative effort between govt and BP would have everyone feeling much better at the moment rather than unprofessional personal attacks and vile comment by our highest ranking govt. officials. But it is now known that during this entire ordeal there still has been no contact with British Petroleum and our President is almost impossible to comprehend and brings to memory what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel said several months back..
“You never want a serious crisis to go to waste"
Could this tragedy that should have been contained from the onset be used as an excuse to nationalize the US Oil Companies? Time will tell but there are indicators that this may indeed be on the agenda.
Now from Sarah Palin.
Less Talkin’, More Kickin’
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/notes/sarah-palin/less-talkin-more-kickin/397148258434
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. His reasoning: “Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in words. I’m interested in actions.”
First, to the “informed and enlightened” mainstream media: in all the discussions you’ve had with the White House about the spill, did it not occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze. (Kind of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask if the President was meeting with General McChrystal to talk about our strategy in Afghanistan.)
Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before occupying the Oval Office (as if the painfully slow response to the oil spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and inability to grant local government simple requests weren’t proof enough). The current administration may be unaware that it’s the President’s duty, meeting on a CEO-to-CEO level with Hayward, to verify what BP reports. In an interview a few weeks ago with Greta Van Susteren, I noted that based on my experience working with oil execs as an oil regulator and then as a Governor, you must verify what the oil companies claim – because their perception of circumstances and situations dealing with public resources and public trust is not necessarily shared by those who own America’s public resources and trust. I was about run out of town in Alaska for what critics decried at the time as my “playing hardball with Big Oil,” and those same adversaries (both shortsighted Repubs and Dems) continue to this day to try to discredit my administration’s efforts in holding Big Oil accountable to operate ethically and responsibly.
Mr. President: with all due respect, you have to get involved, sir. The priorities and timeline of an oil company are not the same as the public’s. You cannot outsource the cleanup and the responsibility and the trust to BP and expect that the legitimate interests of Americans adversely affected by this spill will somehow be met.
White House: have you read this morning’s Washington Post? Not to pile it on BP, but there’s an extensive report chronicling the company’s troubling history:
“BP has had more high-profile accidents than any other company in recent years. And now, with the disaster in the gulf, independent experts say the pervasiveness of the company’s problems, in multiple locales and different types of facilities, is striking.
‘They are a recurring environmental criminal and they do not follow U.S. health safety and environmental policy,’ said Jeanne Pascal, a former EPA lawyer who led its BP investigations.”
And yet just 10 days prior to the explosion, the Obama administration’s regulators gave the oil rig a pass, and last year the Obama administration granted BP a National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) exemption for its drilling operation.
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Reality Check
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6/8/2010 7:11:38 PM
Part II
These decisions and the resulting spill have shaken the public’s confidence in the ability to safely drill. Unless government appropriately regulates oil developments and holds oil executives accountable, the public will not trust them to drill, baby, drill. And we must! Or we will be even more beholden to, and controlled by, dangerous foreign regimes that supply much of our energy. This has been a constant refrain from me. As Governor of Alaska, I did everything in my power to hold oil companies accountable in order to prove to the federal government and to the nation that Alaska could be trusted to further develop energy rich land like ANWR and NPR-A. I hired conscientious Democrats and Republicans (because this sure shouldn’t be a partisan issue) to provide me with the best advice on how we could deal with what was a corrupt system of some lawmakers and administrators who were hesitant to play hardball with some in the oil field business. (Remember the Alaska lawmakers, public decision-makers, and business executives who ended up going to jail as a result of the FBI’s investigations of oily corruption.)
As the aforementioned article notes, BP’s operation in Alaska would hurt our state and waste public resources if allowed to continue. That’s why my administration created the Petroleum Systems Integrity Office (PSIO) when we saw proof of improper maintenance of oil infrastructure in our state. We had to verify. And that’s why we instituted new oversight and held BP and other oil companies financially accountable for poor maintenance practices. We knew we could partner with them to develop resources without pussyfooting around with them. As a CEO, it was my job to look out for the interests of Alaskans with the same intensity and action as the oil company CEOs looked out for the interests of their shareholders.
I learned firsthand the way these companies operate when I served as chair of the Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission (AOGCC). I ended up resigning in protest because my bosses (the Governor and his chief of staff at the time) wouldn’t support efforts to clean up the corruption involving improper conflicts of interest with energy companies that the state was supposed to be watching. (I wrote about this valuable learning experience in my book, “Going Rogue”.) I felt guilty taking home a big paycheck while being reduced to sitting on my thumbs – essentially rendered ineffective as a supervisor of a regulatory agency in charge of nearly 20% of the U.S. domestic supply of energy.
My experience (though, granted, I got the message loud and clear during the campaign that my executive experience managing the fastest growing community in the state, and then running the largest state in the union, was nothing compared to the experiences of a community organizer) showed me how government officials and oil execs could scratch each others’ backs to the detriment of the public, and it made me ill. I ran for Governor to fight such practices. So, as a former chief executive, I humbly offer this advice to the President: you must verify. That means you must meet with Hayward. Demand answers.
In the interview today, the President said: “I don’t sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answers, so I know whose ass to kick.”
Please, sir, for the sake of the Gulf residents, reach out to experts who have experience holding oil companies accountable. I suggested a few weeks ago that you start with Alaska’s Department of Natural Resources, led by Commissioner Tom Irwin. Having worked with Tom and his DNR and AGIA team led by Marty Rutherford, I can vouch for their integrity and expertise in dealing with Big Oil and overseeing its developments. We’ve all lived and worked through the Exxon-Valdez spill. They can help you. Give them a call. Or, what the heck, give me a call.
And, finally, Mr. President, please do not punish the American public with any new energy tax in response to this tragedy. Just because BP and federal regulators screwed up that doesn’t mean the rest of us should get punished with higher taxes at the pump and attached to everything petroleum products touch.
- Sarah Palin
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Jesse Adams
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6/9/2010 8:27:08 AM
Sarah Palin thinks? I don't believe it.
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Diane Hulfnagel
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6/9/2010 10:43:34 AM
Wow, that's really original!
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never never band
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6/9/2010 2:14:31 PM
---- Updated 6/9/2010 2:18:22 PM
lets take a look at history...RECENT history.
right from Caribou Barbies mouth..
huh?
Sarah wants to tell us that "drill Baby Drill" wasn't about offshore drilling..
heh.
And the Tea Bagers are buying that crap?
I mean....really?
Sarah thinks you're stupid, and, as history has made abundantly clear, she lies.
Remember the Bridge To Nowhere ?
And as for her effectiveness in holding big oil accountable, how come Alaskans effected by the EXXON spill only recieved 10% of their losses and EXXON skated on at lesst a billion dollar bill?
Maybe she should dial them up.."CEO to CEO" and look into that..
or rather ((Failed Half Term Governer to CEO)) but when your memory only spans the last 24 hour news cycle I guess details like that dont matter.
How about a few choice quotes from Media Matters for those who willfully fporget what Caribou Barbie is really all about..
sound like fun?
Here, for example, is Sarah Palin at an October 21, 2008, campaign event in Reno, with emphasis added:
PALIN: John [McCain] and I have to adopt an all-of-the-above approach to meet America's great energy challenge for you. That means harnessing alternative sources, like wind, and solar, and biomass, and geothermal.
(APPLAUSE)
And we will develop clean-coal technology. And we will safely drill for the billions of barrels of oil that we have underground, including off-shore.
(APPLAUSE)
We will drill here, we'll drill now, and that's when you start the chant. Yes.
AUDIENCE: Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!
PALIN: You bet. We'll drill, baby, drill, and we'll mine, baby, mine, as your placard said, yes.
Nevada, it is for our nation's security's sake and this is for our nation's economic prosperity and job opportunities in our future. We need American energy resources brought to you by American ingenuity and produced by American workers.
And here she is the day before in Loveland, Colorado:
PALIN: And whether Joe Biden approves it or not, we will develop clean coal technology and we will safely drill for the billions of barrels of oil that are warehoused underground, including our offshore sources. We will drill here and drill now. (Cheers, applause.) Drill, baby, drill. Drill, baby, drill.
And three days before that, in West Chester, Ohio:
PALIN: It's nonsense, the road that we have about on. And we will change that. We will safely drill for the billions of barrels of oil that we have here in the U.S.
(APPLAUSE)
AUDIENCE: Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!
PALIN: Drill, baby, drill. That's right.
(APPLAUSE)
AUDIENCE: Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill! Drill, baby, drill!
(APPLAUSE)
PALIN: It also means safely tapping into our offshore sources, safely, environmentally safe.
UPDATE: Just last month, Sarah Palin said the Gulf oil spill should not change our posture towards offshore drilling at all. Asked by Fox News' Greta Van Susteren if "we should continue to go full speed ahead with the offshore drilling" in the wake of the spill, Palin responded: "Absolutely."
From the May 14 edition of Fox News' On the Record:
VAN SUSTEREN: All right, so now we know that they don't do that. Shouldn't we at least put a halt on all offshore drilling because if they did it here on this particular rig, what would in any way give us confidence on any other rig?
PALIN: No, we are too reliant on oil.
VAN SUSTEREN: So we just keep drilling?
PALIN: We have to keep drilling. We have to learn from the mistakes that have been made with this Gulf spill. We have to get to the bottom of it, what caused it and we still don't know that.
VAN SUSTEREN: In the meantime, though, until we get to the bottom of it, you think we should continue to go full speed ahead with the offshore drilling?
PALIN: Absolutely.
VAN SUSTEREN: Even until we get to the bottom of this.
PALIN: Absolutely. There is that inherent link between our own domestic energy supplies, production of, and our own security and prosperity and our own freedom in America.
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never never band
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6/9/2010 2:26:51 PM
---- Updated 6/9/2010 2:27:22 PM
It's also fun to talk about the ALASKA INDEPENDENCE PARTY!!
dontchathink?
That old club is a HOOT, and they loves them some Caribou Barbie!!
Palin\'s secession flirtation
(I know, it's Op-Ed...but that does eem to be the standard here....que no?)
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Reality Check
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6/9/2010 5:05:02 PM
There's a world if difference between continental shelf shallow water drilling and drilling at 5000 ft.. Might be a good idea to become a bit more educated on that topic before embarrassing yourself any further..
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never never band
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6/9/2010 6:35:22 PM
---- Updated 6/9/2010 6:40:10 PM
I already taught you everything you need to know on your last silly sarah palin post.
Yes, the Horizon drill was a disaster and a fools errend and BP lied about the risks, lied about their ability to contain a catastrophic failure, lied about everything.
And you and your "Let Big Business do what they want withouth regulation" cronies are at the bottom of this shit.
The oversite was decimated over the past 10 years, in mining, drilling, food and drug, everything.
You and your cronies have been whining about government over-reach and too much regulation for YEARS, your Danny Hastert Tom Delay congress, your DREAM congress managed to gut oversite, your DREAM vice president formuated this energy policy and refuses to even make the records public.
It's absolutely incredible to me that the Anti Government Anti Regultion mob that ran this country into the rocks is now complaining about a lack of oversite and a lack of Government Involvement@!!!!
And right there in my last post we have Caribou Barbie saying we need to DRILL BABY DRILL, on like 8 different occasions!! she makes no distinction about where or how deep, at least not until yesterday when she insulted the president by suggesting he Call Her!! A failed, willfully ignorant half term governer who abandoned her post for a goddam book tour!!!
"Call Me"
are you kidding me?
I mean, if that doesn't make you cringe...well..I just dont know what to think.
incredible.
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Reality Check
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6/10/2010 4:46:45 AM
"Yes, the Horizon drill was a disaster and a fools errend and BP lied about the risks..."
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No weirdo, The Eviromentalists are completely at fault for this tragedy by making safe drilling dephts off-limits to oil companies and forcing them into the deeper, more dangerous waters. That's so elementary even you understand it
Now would you please bring out the tag-team partner again because you're stating to give me migraines..
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never never band
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6/10/2010 1:06:51 PM
I cant indulge your paranoia and emotional problems AND try to teach you something at the same time. So lets try to pull away from your multiple poster delusions for a moment....
It's a fact that Exxon and BP and others hold multiple leases in safe drilling zones that they wont put into production.
and as we already went over, even this well was NOT GOING INTO PRODUCTION!! The idea was to tap it and cap it and move on so as to maintain their leases.
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never never band
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6/10/2010 3:16:56 PM
---- Updated 6/10/2010 7:58:50 PM
Ok, lets go back to what we discussed on your last Sarah Post and try to educate you a bit...
First, read this BNET piece very slowly, so you dont "accidently" skip over the important facts...
But first let me say this, this BNET piece lays out a Natural Gas scenario here, where we see that a glut in the market has driven componaies to deep reserves (which hold a 10 year lease and are thus less volitile than the shallow water 5 years leases in a fluctuating market)
Now, why, if it's true that the "environmentalists" have forced energies hand into deep water, why then are Bobby Jindal and Caribou Barbie freaking out about a proposed deep water drilling moratorium? If, as Barbie says, these reserves are Dangerous and we only drill them because we HAVE TO, then why are they all aquiver about a shift to shallow water reserves and a moratorium on deep water reserves?
well, it's because they LIE
The reason to grab a deep water lease is it's a 10 year lease instead of a 5 year lease so you have better opportunity to put the well into production when prices are the highest. They DONT GIVE A FUCK that these wells are dangerous, or that, as were seeing in todays Chamber Of Commerce position Tax Payers will likely end up picking up the cleanup costs (if this shit can even BE cleaned up). This a the Conservative Postion, Privitize the profit SOCIALIZE THE RISK!!!
All the nonsense Caribou Barbie is spewing about environmentalists is just her doing her sour grapes routine because environmentalists have embarrased her on multiple occasions about her Helicopter Wolf Hunts and other stupid shit she's into.
ok..now lets read carefully..
ready?
set go!
(begin BNET piece)
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More than 3,400 parcels, encompassing 18.4 million acres in the western Gulf of Mexico, were up for grabs Wednesday. In the end, the auction attracted $115 million in high bids for 162 tracts in an area located offshore Texas.
That’s a nearly 50 percent drop in the number of leases bid on last year and a 76 percent drop in the sum of high bids. Last year, energy companies bid $483.9 million for leases to drill in 313 tracts.
The majority of bids — about 80 percent — were directed towards deep water tracts, a sign that companies are placing more stock in the pursuit of crude oil, not natural gas. It also shows companies are investing in longer term projects, which are not as closely tied to short-term fluctuations in commodity prices. Deepwater tracts have 10-year leases, while shallow water areas have 5-year leases.
Producers’ cool reception to 5-year leases — which only received 34 high bids –is hardly a surprise, considering the low price and overabundance of natural gas.
Natural gas hit a low of $3.049 today before rising to $3.11 per thousand cubic feet on the New York Mercentile Exchange. Just a year ago, the commodity was trading more than three times that amount.
Weakened demand — thanks to the recession — has helped contribute to ballooning natural gas inventories. The natural gas glut also has been aided by companies that have maintained, or even raised, their production levels, in some cases to hold onto costly leases in unconventional shale gas plays.
Offshore natural gas exploration — at least looking at Wednesday’s auction results — appear to be slowing for now. But that’s hardly the case in the unconventional shale gas arena, where advanced drilling techniques have opened up previously unreachable resources in recent years.
Even though some companies have slowed production in shale gas, others, like those developing the Haynesville play in East Texas continue to boost supply.
-(end BNET piece)
get it yet Gregg?
Sarah is lyin to ya bud, she's an abusive girlfriend, you need to move on.
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