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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (73196)	4/29/2010 11:49:46 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 149317

Has Big Oil proven to President Obama that they can safely drill in deep waters...?? I don't think so. I have heard that in the U.S. we don't have drilling regulations that are as strict as they have in Brazil or in some northern European countries (where they do things like require the use of more expensive remote Blowout Preventers as a backup for deep water drilling)...the Big Oil lobby in the U.S. down in the Gulf has lobbied for relaxed regulations and oversight -- and how's that working out...?? I would like to see President Obama tell the nation that he will not authorize ANY new offshore drilling until a very comprehensive investigation is conducted...The bottom line is that drilling for oil in the Gulf is dirty and risky vs. new investments in Clean Energy technologies...Historian Douglass Brinkely said that BP does not have a good safety record and has been investigated by the EPA and the FBI in Alaska for numerous cracks in their oil pipelines...Right now we clearly don't have effective regulation of the U.S. oil industry and it's reckless to authorize them to do any new deep water drilling until there is proper oversight, regulation and technology in place...Unfortunately, this new Gulf oil spill could impact precious marine ecosystems and thousands of miles of shoreline in Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida...the Obama Administration needs to have an overwhelming response to this impending national disaster -- and I predict that this oil spill will ultimately become much worse than the Exxon Valdez spill.