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To: Broken_Clock who wrote (251009)	5/31/2010 12:58:47 PM
From: stockman_scott	Respond to of 306849

We all know how powerful Goldman Sachs is in Washington...I think we're learning that BP is very well entrenched too...Obama got truckloads of money from BP and that was not an accident...And BP has influence over the Department of Energy and the Department of Interior...Wonder if that helped pave the way for the Administration's new policy of allowing much more offshore drilling for oil in North America...Then again, nobody expected BP to screw up as badly as they did with their exploratory well that the Deepwater Horizon was drilling -- cost cutting and some other fatal decision making helped create a potential Black Swan event for entire petroleum industry and for the ecosystems in our Gulf of Mexico...Did team Obama allow BP to use record quantities of the toxic dispersant Corexit in order hide the full magnitude of the massive oil spill...?? In countries like Norway the government has much more control over the oil companies -- and safety is truly a priority over there.