The Brits still think we are being too tough on BP: The crisis engulfing BP has plumbed new depths as President Obama bullied the company into depositing £13.5billion into a fund to settle compensation claims for the calamitous Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Bullied? Sorry, but BP has been doing the bullying by giving victims […]
The President’s speech from the Oval Office was a major failure in my view. He missed a golden opportunity to really hit one out of the park. A good example is talking about the clean energy bill, yet he did not use the power of his office and speech to urge Senate to pass it. […]
This time of the year one of my daily reads is the National Hurricane Center’s website. It’s just part of being a weather junky. Today I was presented with this: That’s a tropical depression forming way out in the Atlantic and has a 60% chance of developing into a Cyclone over the next 48 hours. […]
Here’s a view of a Republican America: From Think Progress: Yesterday, Chevron discovered a leaking pipeline that was spewing 50 gallons of crude oil per minute into Red Butte Creek in Salt Lake City, UT. By the time crews capped the leak, more than 21,000 gallons — between 400-500 barrels — of oil had spilled […]
It looks like the U.K. has a “to big to fail” problem also, except this time it’s in the oil industry: In that atmosphere, the stream of condemnations from Washington has stirred a protective backlash, even in this closest of American allies. Boris Johnson, the Conservative mayor of London, said Thursday that he was worried […]
A new ABC/Washington Post poll echoes the results of the CBS poll earlier this week – Americans are waking up on offshore drilling: Just a quarter of Americans back expanding offshore drilling in the wake of the BP oil spill, and most fault federal regulators for the environmental disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, according […]
A new ABC poll has rated the government response to the oil spill worse than the response to Katrina: A month and a half after the spill began, 69 percent in a new ABC News/Washington Post poll rate the federal response negatively. That compares with a 62 negative rating for the response to Katrina two […]
‘Drill Baby Drill’ may no longer be a good rallying cry for the GOP, as Americans are now turning on offshore drilling according to a new CBS poll: Isn’t it ironic that the warnings all of us “tree-hugging liberals” have been yelling for years about offshore drilling are coming to fruition? And now that Americans […]
In about 10 minutes the White House will hold a joint press briefing with Robert Gibbs and Thad Allen, in what is probably the start of a much more out front White House when it comes to the spill: White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs’s briefing, which normally comes in the afternoon, takes place at […]
BP’s latest attempt is falling short of all expectations: A cap placed over the gusher was collecting only a fraction of the oil, which had stained beaches with a waxy mess of tar balls and created an unusual orange foam in the surf. Given the continous failures, it has become obvious that plans were never […]