I am no friend of big Oil, however, you would think the way Obama was ranting, it was BPs, yes they are legally responsible but how much can they be morally blamed? Is it part of an anti-British pro-US stance here?

BP was principal developer of the oil field and leased the oil rig from Transocean Ltd.[10] The U.S. Government has named BP as the responsible party in the incident and will hold the company accountable for all cleanup costs resulting from the oil spill.[11][12] BP has accepted responsibility for the oil spill and the cleanup costs but indicated that the accident was not their fault as the rig was run by Transocean personnel.[13]

In fact there are five companies connected to the disaster, including Cameron the manufacturer of the failed blowout preventer. (BTW Now why didn't we have that company name all over the UK newspapers over the past week? To avoid a bad connection with someone else in the electorates feeble mind? The right wing media protects its own!)

BP, Transocean, Anadarko Petroleum, Halliburton and Cameron International, had lost a total of $21 billion in market capitalization since the explosion.[86] It noted that Halliburton, which had lost $1.5 billion, "generally does not take environmental risk" and includes a limited liability clause in its contracts, and that Cameron's loss of $1.8 billion in market value was out of proportion to its involvement as manufacturer of the blowout preventer, as "most manufacturers are not responsible for consequential damages."[87]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deepwat..._rig_explosion

Timing of this "accident" seems interesting. Can't believe that safeties were not in place to prevent the spill we are seeing. Even with the fire, there should be some way to stop the oil coming out of the ground.

To answer perseus. Before we pass judgment on who is responsible, lets see what the investigation reveals. I know that the British have been pumping oil out of the north sea for a while and I am not currently aware of any major spill. So it begs the question, what are the Brits doing different to prevent "accidents" than the U.S. is?

I don't know who is responsible, but it seems BP benefits in the long run if the US backpedals and President Obama does not allow off shore drilling.

Another possible theory is, it is a clandestine attack on America by the British government. Maybe a payback for the Revolution.

I am sure there is a more plausible reason than a industrial accident.

I've heard some right wingers proclaim it is "an act of God" and are trying (in vain) to compare it to Katrina. They REALLY just don't know when to keep their mouths shut, do they?

Originally Posted by Rob Henderson

I've heard some right wingers proclaim it is "an act of God" and are trying (in vain) to compare it to Katrina. They REALLY just don't know when to keep their mouths shut, do they?

If anything, I'd consider it "an act of God" that after Obama approved the offshore drilling, that there was a huge oil disaster! But in all honesty, from what I can tell it was a freak accident.

Best one I read lately was NK torpedos.
Involved SK ownership in some of the processes.

unprecedented mess, whatever caused it.

Friend of mine in the business claims it was an explorative rig and did not have all the safeties of a production rig.

The event happened so fast that the safeties did not deploy effectively.

he rig apparently rests on the hole.

Plug it now and blame later.

Originally Posted by MikeP

Best one I read lately was NK torpedos.
Involved SK ownership in some of the processes.

unprecedented mess, whatever caused it.

Friend of mine in the business claims it was an explorative rig and did not have all the safeties of a production rig.

The event happened so fast that the safeties did not deploy effectively.

he rig apparently rests on the hole.

Plug it now and blame later.

Ahhhhhh. Thanks for the info MikeP.

So let me get this straight. Pres Obama approves offshore drilling. Then we have this "accident". Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe we should lay it at the feet of the ELF or North Koreans. Here is a thought. It was the illegal immigrants. They swam out to the rig and sabatoged it beacuse of the new law in Arizona.

Chuckpike.
LOL the Brits, destroy a rig that is owned in majority by a british company as payback for the fight for independance. Wow. Thats IS good.

Originally Posted by HokieMSG

Ahhhhhh. Thanks for the info MikeP.

So let me get this straight. Pres Obama approves offshore drilling. Then we have this "accident". Hmmmmmmmm. Maybe we should lay it at the feet of the ELF or North Koreans. Here is a thought. It was the illegal immigrants. They swam out to the rig and sabatoged it beacuse of the new law in Arizona.

Interesting possibility. We do know illegals train hard for the swim across the Rio Grande River.

Originally Posted by HokieMSG

Chuckpike.
LOL the Brits, destroy a rig that is owned in majority by a british company as payback for the fight for independance. Wow. Thats IS good.

That was to get the oil slick to land. The "oily slick" would make it possible for the invasion force to slide 50 miles inland in no time.

In history the English took a terrible loss getting bogged down outside of New Orleans. What better payback than to slide through the area?

Originally Posted by Chukpike

Interesting possibility. We do know illegals train hard for the swim across the Rio Grande River.

That was to get the oil slick to land. The "oily slick" would make it possible for the invasion force to slide 50 miles inland in no time.

In history the English took a terrible loss getting bogged down outside of New Orleans. What better payback than to slide through the area?

I've been to Louisiana. Can't say I liked it. Why go that route? They could wait until the next hurricane and sail right through with New Orleans being underwater. Just a thought.

Well since BP has said its theirs, as far as I'm concerned its theirs......all theirs, you see I deal with Fabrication and construction for schools, which means I deal in child safety on playgrounds, I put MY name as inspector after a contractor builds a playground, so if anything is substandard or not safe its MY responsibility to make sure its repaired or otherwise made safe before a child gets hurt or killed, same, same in the bigger world too.

It should be the owners responsibility to make sure EVERYTHING is up to safety standards. they make enough money off of me to speand a few pennies and make it safe.