BP tells EPA to stick it and stays with corexit

In case you have not realized, the "regime" does not want the matter cleaned, solved or stopped. The more pollution, the more they can blame BIG OIL.

If they are so smart, they should step in, solve the problem, and bill BP

Obama must step up and force BP's hand, Jindal doesn't have enough stroke.

It is time for Obama to take more control of the situation.

I understand the reason not too, but BP doesnt care about any enivironment ramifications, tremendous amount of deceit, nor the people along the Gulf Coast.

the lying is getting to almost a comical point now. Wonder what other Big Oil execs are thinking of BPs efforts?

All of Big Oil is getting branded as a result of thisand just wait till the oil hits FL's white sandy beaches then all the oil industry will suffer tremendous PR.

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frick all the politics it's time to do what's right.

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Tell that to Nashville. They're still waiting on Obama to give a crap about them too. Guess they should've voted Democrat.

I've been trying to look into if that is not the appropriate reaction rather than strangling the entire industry.

After Exxon Valdez, how many non-BP major accidents were there, and how many of them were BP. And how many non-BP companies participated in intentional negligence compared to BP in these accidents.

Oyster, why didn't you factor this in your thread? Its the first line of the article:

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BP has told the Environmental Protection Agency that it cannot find a safe, effective and available dispersant to use instead of Corexit, and will continue to use that chemical application to help break up the growing spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

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That doesn't sound like BP is telling them to stick it when the EPA gave them that very option.

This ignoring of facts is made even more puzzling when you chose to include quotes that help your case with peripheral arguments.

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Tell that to Nashville. They're still waiting on Obama to give a crap about them too. Guess they should've voted Democrat.

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Your Nashville comment is completely misleading. Sure some folks in Nashville will find something to gripe about. Everyone will not be 100% pleased. But FEMA under Obama arrived immediately, did and continues to do a great job, and most objective people, Dem or Rep, agree. Now FEMA under Bush in NO, well, we all know that story.

Here's a by-the-numbers look at the Nashville disaster recovery to date:
$110 million in federal assistance has been approved ($98.2 million in housing assistance such as rental and home repair assistance, and $11.8 million in other needs assistance such as personal property lost due to the storm).
48,978 people have registered with FEMA for Individual Assistance, (15,291 on the Web; 33,687 through the Call Center.)
$2.9 million in loans has been approved by the U.S. Small Business Administration.
137 Community Relations specialists are going door to door in communities across the state making sure families are registered to get the support they need.
28 Disaster Recovery Centers.

It may be smaller than the BP tragedy, but read on about FEMA in Nashville...

"In the wake of a punishing storm and flood that devastated large swaths of this city's neighborhoods and parts of several surrounding counties, Nashville is giving FEMA high marks. "...Having this amount of money on the street and having served this many clients, this certainly wouldn't have happened a few years ago," says James Bassham, director of the Tennessee Emergency Management Agency. "There's a lot of great lessons learned."

"...this time there's many a kind word for the feds, who are often mistrusted on principle by Southerners. It's genetic. Genes passed down from long-forgotten great-grandfathers who survived harsh Reconstruction make wariness of "yankee bureaucrats" instinctive. But FEMA's quick response has dissolved residual resentment of bureaucrats, Yankee or not."

"Floodwaters surrounded the home of William Nicks in the Bellevue neighborhood and moved so quickly that Mr. Nicks and his wife had to flee to the roof of their house. When they were rescued Mr. Nicks applied for federal help. "We had heard they kicked most of the applications back to make you re-do them just to cull out some folks," he says. "But in one week I got $30,000 in the bank. That's all right."

"...officials say they tried to make Mr. Nicks' experience typical. Putting cash in bank accounts, and eliminating the usual bureaucratic hurdles, became a priority. "I think we've tried to streamline as much as we can," ...a FEMA spokesman, tells the Tennessean, the Nashville newspaper. "There's a lot of money out on the streets already, and we're less than two weeks out [from the flood]." FEMA inspectors, armed with laptop computers, became a familiar sight on blighted streets, entering photographs and information for instant communication to FEMA headquarters. Homeowners were typically not asked to fill out the usual reams of forms for dealing with Washington. Evan Kroft, whose home in East Nashville was flooded, filed for a grant to repair damage to his insulation and ventilation system, and four days later received a grant of $2,500. "Then they came out and did a follow-up call to make sure everything went well. Talk about responsive."

"...the response from the feds was a nice surprise. Maybe Barack Obama should thank George W. Bush for the lessons in how not to respond to a natural disaster".

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Anybody who says The O DRAMA administration is handling the oil gush in a fine fashion is bias and is simply choosing to do so.

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Jindal doesn't have enough stroke.

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Jindal has been out there every single day since about april 30th. The problem that the state runs into is that BP won't consider anything that the state is proposing. Furthermore due to the fact that our boundary is just a few miles off the coast, we can't force them to do anything out there at the leaking site. Jindal can't help that he can't do anything.

Barack is scared to get his hands dirty.