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re: Was/Is BP the best qualified entity to stop the leak?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:22 am to Chad504boy
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:22 am to Chad504boy
Guess what chad, contrary to your beliefs, there are not four old guys sitting in a conference room in London drawing up ideas on napkins and then flipping a coin to decide which plan to try. 
You guys that come on this board every few days with this crap just cracks me up.
Do you know there is a command center with people from other oil companies and industry people?
Do you know that the best engineers and thinkers on this subject have been working on finding a fix since day one?
Do you know that the gov. has no assets and would fck this situation up worse than a Tulane football team if they tried to take it over? Really, all that would happen is most of the same people would still be working on a fix, but everything would be delayed even more because of the feds.
Do you know that the feds are involed via the coast guard and other agencies as much as needed right now? They do know about every fart that takes place in the command center and they do approve of quite a bit of what is happening.
You guys that come on this board every few days with this crap just cracks me up.
Do you know there is a command center with people from other oil companies and industry people?
Do you know that the best engineers and thinkers on this subject have been working on finding a fix since day one?
Do you know that the gov. has no assets and would fck this situation up worse than a Tulane football team if they tried to take it over? Really, all that would happen is most of the same people would still be working on a fix, but everything would be delayed even more because of the feds.
Do you know that the feds are involed via the coast guard and other agencies as much as needed right now? They do know about every fart that takes place in the command center and they do approve of quite a bit of what is happening.
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Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:23 am to Chad504boy
quote:Extremely. Would you want a plumber advising your brain surgeon on how to do his job?
How skilled do you have to be to be involved in monitoring their decision process and making?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:25 am to barry
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It's BP's equipment and man power. They are the best qualified to stop the leak. They are not the best to clean up the oil. That is the difference.
The federal government should have coordinated a clean up response as soon as this happened and charged BP for it. They didn't and the clean up response has been fubar.
This sums it up nicely. The government should only be involved with the cleanup which they have and continue to drop the ball on. It would take the government months to acquire the knowledge, equipment, people, and know how that BP and all the other industry experts already had on the ground. The government, i.e. military, needs to be on mop up duty on this one and leave the technical side to the experts.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:32 am to redstick13
I believe the government needs to step in big time now with cleanup since BP has dropped the ball.
BP appears to be only interested in PR and not cleaning up
BP appears to be only interested in PR and not cleaning up
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:36 am to notiger1997
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Do you know there is a command center with people from other oil companies and industry people?
Maybe Chad should tour the Shell command center in Robert. That place is incredible! They have so many engineers and experts up there it makes your minds swim.
the one shining truth about this whole incident is that the Press has absolutely no idea what is truly going on in the world and even if they did they couldn't accurately convey it. People believe everything they see in the media.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:40 am to Oyster
Yeah, I made a post on the political board yesterday about how fcked up it is how things are reported by the media, especially talk radio, that plays to the ignorance and fears of our uneducated country.
Bill O'rielly was the main one that pissed me off. His claim was that Obama has done nothing about the oil spill because he wants to take over big oil. He said the navy could have had a whole flotilla of ships down in the gulf skimming up the oil if they really wanted to.
Fcking idiot.
Bill O'rielly was the main one that pissed me off. His claim was that Obama has done nothing about the oil spill because he wants to take over big oil. He said the navy could have had a whole flotilla of ships down in the gulf skimming up the oil if they really wanted to.
Fcking idiot.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:46 am to Mudminnow
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Posted by Mudminnow
One would think if BP is out there drilling in the Gulf a plan would be in place and plans for cleanup along miles of coastline would have been written years ago.
ok. I think that goes without saying. BP, the Feds, the states all should have had disaster plans in order. That doesn't change the fact that BP is the most qualified to stop the leak.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:53 am to Pierre
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ok. I think that goes without saying. BP, the Feds, the states all should have had disaster plans in order. That doesn't change the fact that BP is the most qualified to stop the leak.
Evidently, oil companies don't need to be better prepared because they have nice operations in robert, la. Every failure they make is excused. It's pathetic.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:54 am to Mudminnow
quote:They did have such a plan. That plan was reviewed and APPROVED by the federal government as well as state governments along the gulf coast.
One would think if BP is out there drilling in the Gulf a plan would be in place and plans for cleanup along miles of coastline would have been written years ago.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:56 am to Taxing Authority
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Evidently, oil companies don't need to be better prepared because they have nice operations in robert, la. Every failure they make is excused. It's pathetic.
So insightful.
This post was edited on 6/4/10 at 10:57 am
Posted on 6/4/10 at 10:58 am to redstick13
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New Orleans had an evacuation plan before Katrina too. What's your point?
The Katrina evacuation plan was very effective. You can't evacuate dumb fricks who choose to stay.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:00 am to Chad504boy
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Evidently, oil companies don't need to be better prepared because they have nice operations in robert, la. Every failure they make is excused. It's pathetic.
You probably couldn't even come up with a plan to stop your water well should it blow up in your back yard. But please continue to downgrade our entire industry.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:02 am to Chad504boy
quote:If the government were truly perfect, as you seem to believe, they would have included evacuating dumb fvcks in thier planning.
The Katrina evacuation plan was very effective. You can't evacuate dumb fricks who choose to stay.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:08 am to Taxing Authority
Lols at chad in this thread
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:16 am to Taxing Authority
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they would have included evacuating dumb fvcks
Don't we call that kidnapping?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:19 am to redstick13
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You probably couldn't even come up with a plan to stop your water well should it blow up in your back yard
I'll try to shove mud and golf balls down the well.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:32 am to Chad504boy
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Evidently, oil companies don't need to be better prepared because they have nice operations in robert, la
Really?
Can't you go play dumb on the O-T or the Saints board or something?
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:43 am to notiger1997
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Can't you go play dumb on the O-T or the Saints board or something?
Sorry, thought this was a disaster forum not an oil employment forum.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 11:52 am to Chad504boy
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Sorry, thought this was a disaster forum not an oil employment forum.
It is a place for people to come share information about what is happening to fix the problem, etc, not a romper room for kids to come spout bullshite about things they know nothing about.
Posted on 6/4/10 at 1:39 pm to notiger1997
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It is a place for people to come share information about what is happening to fix the problem, etc, not a romper room for kids to come spout bullshite about things they know nothing about.
I know BP is taking a massive dump on the coastline of my state but i'm not supposed to be at all critical of them. But the only voices of reason are those who are agenda filled within the industry.
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