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To: greenspirit who wrote (366893)	5/31/2010 7:17:52 PM
From: Bearcatbob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793782

"The administration has left to BP most decisions about how to move forward with efforts to contain the leak. But Ms. Browner made a point of saying that the administration, led by Secretary of Energy Steven Chu, had told BP that the company should stop the top kill. Government officials thought it was too dangerous to keep pumping drilling mud into the well because they worried it was putting too much pressure on it. BP announced Saturday evening that it was ending that effort. " I think that implies capping the well would have been hazardous. There could not be more pressure than well pressure. That does not make sense to me. Bob

To: greenspirit who wrote (366893)	5/31/2010 11:23:16 PM
From: KLP	1 Recommendation Respond to of 793782

What in the heck is she smoking? <<<<<“We are prepared for the worst,” said Carol M. Browner, President Obama’s climate change and energy policy adviser. “We have been prepared from the beginning.” <<<<< IF they were 'prepared from the beginning' then just why is the situation so bad????? Are we to think that our government has been totally out in left field, and hasn't a clue about what to do, when to do it, and what the impact will be....? That's what most of us think by now. The entire plan was and is a disaster from the instant anyone paid any attention to the problem..... There has been NO plan! And there has been way too much micromanaging from the top down.