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Politics : The Obama - Clinton Disaster
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To: GROUND ZERO™ who wrote (32413)6/26/2010 7:37:46 PM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 103300
 
What?

That those local Louisiana government pols have been in the pocket of Big Oil for decades?

And their 'emergency response plan' was all FLUFF --- (full of BLANK PAGES for crimminy's sake! <g>)

And that wanting one and a half times all the oil containment booms in ALL OF AMERICA (that includes Alaska too! What the heck is Alaska supposed to do if there is a leak there??????), enough boom to line ALL of Louisiana's coast line more then THREE TIMES OVER ain't exactly a hallmark of 'good planning'? LOL!!!!!!!!!!

And neither is wanting to build 140 MILES of sand berms (probably taking a YEAR or MORE to finish, and at a cost of well over one Billion Dollars), likely to be much of a TIMELY or cost/effective policy response. Especially as many experts predict that as berm construction proceeded it would likely just FUNNEL oil through the yet-unfilled gaps and into marshlands at an accelerated rate. <g>

I tell you... that Jindal is one sweaty speed-talking little ferret.

He is trying ever so desperately to shift all attention AWAY from the facts that Louisiana's response plans were woefully rosy-cheeked, and LA has been deep in thrall to Big Oil for so long it's almost laughable for them to even point any fingers now.... Glass houses and all.
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