tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post1605301613269384323..comments2024-03-29T09:02:21.634-04:00Comments on Lehigh Valley Ramblings: Obama On Federal Response to Oil Spill in Gulf of MexicoBernie O'Harehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-4086962961469713322010-05-02T20:04:00.612-04:002010-05-02T20:04:00.612-04:00Obama's Katrina. I bet he sure wishes he did n...Obama's Katrina. I bet he sure wishes he did not rip on Bush. This oil spill will have lasting effects beyond anyone's comprehension. At least New Orleans can be rebuilt be humans. Too bad the oceanic environment can't. Obama... Why did you not doing something early on??? You simply let a lot of people down.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-77316434727176471932010-05-02T01:27:00.283-04:002010-05-02T01:27:00.283-04:00Why does Obama sound like George Bush here?
Bough...Why does Obama sound like George Bush here?<br /><br />Bought and sold by the oil interests! Where is the man we elected?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-12788877918298854052010-05-01T14:12:46.852-04:002010-05-01T14:12:46.852-04:00Not in my back yard! I want oil, yep, but haha th...Not in my back yard! I want oil, yep, but haha the spill aint hurting me. na na na na na nah! Get back to drilling!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-61666414726035697892010-05-01T14:09:35.839-04:002010-05-01T14:09:35.839-04:002:59 haha so true2:59 haha so trueAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-32753759119637757382010-05-01T10:37:34.415-04:002010-05-01T10:37:34.415-04:00Bernie I am for drilling oil in the ocean bed. I ...Bernie I am for drilling oil in the ocean bed. I always believed that automatic and remote valves were in place to mitigated the possibility of this type of accident. Guess I was wrong.<br />But we still need the oil.<br />Bob RomancheckAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-77479534717731245872010-05-01T10:36:00.282-04:002010-05-01T10:36:00.282-04:00The U.S. could be a bit more careful when it comes...The U.S. could be a bit more careful when it comes to drilling for oil offshore. How come our country doesn't require an acoustic switch? This is a remote controlled safety switch that could have stopped the leak from continuing, and other oil producing nations require it. Nothing is a perfect fail-safe protection, but these switches being absent on our country's oil rigs is NOT a good idea. I hope Obama champions their use after this debacle. <br /><br />I don't blame Obama for the spill, but his delay in verbally responding reflects the sneaky nature of this particular spill. BP said all along that this wasn't a big deal, that they had it under control. Perhaps Obama actually trusted what one of his major campaign contributors told him. Regardless of how long it took Obama to address the nation, the real problem is the purchasing power oil companies have in our US Senate, Congress and Executive office.monkey mommanoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-11856819999789980022010-05-01T00:39:28.986-04:002010-05-01T00:39:28.986-04:00Ms Stoneknocker,
Every point you made validates t...Ms Stoneknocker,<br /><br />Every point you made validates the fact that this was an inside job just as 9/11 was.<br /><br />Our government is the culprit, and quite often is.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-30584500250775954672010-04-30T23:51:49.782-04:002010-04-30T23:51:49.782-04:00The price of shrimp is already up 10%. Oyster beds...The price of shrimp is already up 10%. Oyster beds are being threatened.<br /><br />If the oil doesn't get shut off soon, we are talking about the near total destruction of a major fishery - and 10's of thousands more unemployed...<br /><br />followed by the destruction of hundreds of miles of some of the whitest beaches in the country. Reduced tourism, destroyed fishery, spike in unemployment - this is a disaster unfolding before us.<br /><br />Now is when we should be asking ourselves, considering that the final price tag is likely to be in the billions, is our ongoing oil dependency worth it?<br /><br />-Ms StoneknockerAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-58965718568767218982010-04-30T23:43:46.017-04:002010-04-30T23:43:46.017-04:009:20 is right. This was BP's problem to fix. ...9:20 is right. This was BP's problem to fix. <br /><br />The Coast Guard was on the scene a week ago. I'm not sure why the feds would be expected to intervene in BP's operation until they showed they blew it.The Central Scrutinizernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-18832847016545848202010-04-30T23:38:42.931-04:002010-04-30T23:38:42.931-04:00If it wasn't so tragic, the reaction to the fe...If it wasn't so tragic, the reaction to the federal response would be humorous. <br /><br />BP wants no part of government when it's exploring and drilling. It fights for less regulation to hasten their exploration and production. But as soon as something like this happens, who is running back to the government asking for taxpayer funds to clean up their giant mess.<br /><br />BP should have contingency plans. BP should build in double and triple protection against this happening. They build on the cheap, free of regulation.<br /><br />And Haley Barbour, the governor of Mississippi who spit in Obama's face when contemplating rejecting the Stimulus as socialist blood money. Now Barbour and Alabama will come groveling to The Government asking to be bailed out from the sludge that is about to smother their beaches.The Central Scrutinizernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-33595369479257767602010-04-30T23:10:50.540-04:002010-04-30T23:10:50.540-04:00This clearly was an "inside job" just as...This clearly was an "inside job" just as 9/11 was. Just another reason to jack up the price of oil.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-84171394296723375812010-04-30T22:12:17.217-04:002010-04-30T22:12:17.217-04:00Oh Please. Stop trying to scare the people. Give...Oh Please. Stop trying to scare the people. Give up the death panels. Give up the birth certificate. After 8 years of destructive policy, we have seen what the GOP has to offer. Turning an $850B surplus into a $7 trillion dollar deficit under GOP reign is not something these County needs to go back to. Do the math. That is just under 1 trillion per year we lost under the GOP. <br /><br />Hi Katie. Personally, I am not opposed to domestic drilling so long as we take every effort available to make it environmentally safe. However when you hear Palin and others suggest we need to drill because our National security depends on it, they will never commit that same domestic oil exclusively for US interest. Now why is that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-43223328759414897072010-04-30T21:56:01.093-04:002010-04-30T21:56:01.093-04:00Yes, let us punish the greedy oil companies and al...Yes, let us punish the greedy oil companies and allow the government to regulate, dictate, and control energy production. I have every confidence they can do the job better than private industry.<br /><br /> Allentown Democrat VoterAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-11583155488976455672010-04-30T21:51:29.155-04:002010-04-30T21:51:29.155-04:00It will be interesting to see if deregulation of t...It will be interesting to see if deregulation of the oil industry resulted in lax fail safe mechanism that could have limited this massive release. I heard it from one source already. If that is a case, how many examples do Americans need?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-5440630074714182542010-04-30T21:30:58.501-04:002010-04-30T21:30:58.501-04:00Katie Bee,
An even larger threat to our childr...Katie Bee,<br /><br /> An even larger threat to our children is the federal government imposing restrictions on the exploitation of available domestic energy resources.<br /><br /> Scott ArmstrongAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-67562011932128741342010-04-30T21:20:21.512-04:002010-04-30T21:20:21.512-04:00The Obama administation has nothing to do with the...The Obama administation has nothing to do with the timing or level of response. For that matter it would not have mattered if a republican or a democrat is in office. For a discharge of this magnitude a SONS (spill of national significance) the amount of discharged oil has to reach a certain amount before any administration could act on a grand scale. Believe me when I tell you that the no one could have imagined that this amount could have ever be reached again, since the exxon valdez incident. Besides the response timing and level falls oweness to the responsibile party, which in this case is BP. BP is liable and thus if the response is not adequate then the federal gov't assumes assumption of the response using tax payer dollars.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-7884825696028650522010-04-30T19:05:34.452-04:002010-04-30T19:05:34.452-04:00The problem with this particular incident is becas...The problem with this particular incident is becasue the well is about 1 mile deep and therefore inacessible for capping. We are drilling in deep water becasue we cannot drill on the continental shelf our regulatins frobid that(like China is doing off our coast). It is more manageable at shallower depths and for that matter, there would have been fewer consequences if it had been in ALaska(which we can't do by regulatin) instead of prime fishing waters.<br /><br />By the way we have not had an incident on a rig since the early 70's.<br /><br />Not goodand a disaster for sure. there should have been failsafe mechanisms in place but I hate to think that we need to shut down our oil industry, as well as that filthy coal they want to close down.<br /><br />If e want energy, we need to take a few risks.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-65109642539013630842010-04-30T17:08:01.592-04:002010-04-30T17:08:01.592-04:00Am I a racist if I LOL'd at that?Am I a racist if I LOL'd at that?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-75321138833945187162010-04-30T17:00:08.466-04:002010-04-30T17:00:08.466-04:00Re: the Katrina comparisons: at least with he cur...Re: the Katrina comparisons: at least with he current screw-up in the White House it's politically incorrect to utter, "Brownie, your doing a heck of a job."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-78335258547156562302010-04-30T16:48:58.846-04:002010-04-30T16:48:58.846-04:00Jon, if you actually read the Washington Post arti...Jon, if you actually read the Washington Post article you'll see that an awful lot of 'government responses' are happening now, not 10 days ago.<br /><br />This is Obama's Hurricane Katrina, and his response was just as poor as Bush's.<br /><br />It's ok to admit when your guy screws up. It's liberating actually.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-45945935724933427362010-04-30T16:12:40.094-04:002010-04-30T16:12:40.094-04:00Thes are Red states: "Drill, Baby, DrilL!&quo...Thes are Red states: "Drill, Baby, DrilL!" and "Less Government" is all we hear from them. Let them deal with. They can fight the spill back with their guns.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-51598767993794685272010-04-30T16:10:24.524-04:002010-04-30T16:10:24.524-04:00Fair point.Fair point.Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-76027645188652370452010-04-30T16:07:50.999-04:002010-04-30T16:07:50.999-04:00bernie, do you really think obama did nothing unti...bernie, do you really think obama did nothing until today? do you really think bush did nothing until he flew over new orleans? <br /><br />they didn't say anything until well after the fact, but the coast guard was on the scene last weekend, if not sooner. don't they require directive from the president to swing into action? didn't fema require directive from the president to start moving supplies into new orleans for katrina.<br /><br />we make pronouncements by what we read in the newspapers, as if newspapers have access to what is going on in all instances. in this case, and in katrina, i doubt they have anything resembling a full picture of what is going on. since you are a consumer of these newspapers (which are obviously one step removed, making you at least two steps removed), it's worth considering. <br /><br />The only way we can truly know what is going on in gov't is if we get press releases on each matter. Frankly, government by press release is just as dangerous as gov't by secrecy: in both instances, you have to worry about what is unsaid.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-30709173024318317992010-04-30T15:51:27.684-04:002010-04-30T15:51:27.684-04:00Katie Bee,
You are right, but we are an oil-base...Katie Bee, <br /><br />You are right, but we are an oil-based economy. This is what I think. Suddenly turning off the pumps would plunge us ito a world-wide depresssion the likes of which would make the Great Depression look like a church picnic. I suspect we'd be at war as well. <br /><br />I agree we need to make the change and have advocated that for years. But it's got to be gradual. That cap-and=-trade is a disaster that will just hurt the poor, who are most impacted by rising energy costs.Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9299655.post-51603973511714195362010-04-30T15:45:28.879-04:002010-04-30T15:45:28.879-04:00Mr. Geeting,
I use a wide variety of sources, bo...Mr. Geeting, <br /><br />I use a wide variety of sources, both liberal and conservative, for my posts. Only rarely do I refer to the Washington Times, although I think that paper is under-rated even if it is conservative. I do refer to the WSJ and NYT frequently bc they are both excellent papers. <br /><br />In this case, my souces were the Wahington Times and an Obama news release from the Rose Garden. <br />What Obama himself makes clear is that he pretty much waited until yestrday to deal w/ an oil spill that is now 10 days old. <br /><br />This is no Katrina, but it's an indication that he is trying to do so much that, in the end, nothing will be accomplished. It is even more unfortunate that a mild criticism like this is construed as some kind of attack. <br /><br />Obama is a human being. He is going to make mistakes. He has made plenty already. But unfortunately, people like you will try to shout down the mildest criticism, even when it is factually accurate. <br /><br />This dishonesty leads to bad government. You can see it pretty clearly in A-town, where criticism is not permitted. <br /><br />I'm surprised you didn't call me a racist.Bernie O'Harehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13756311150988957401noreply@blogger.com