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To: Dale Baker who wrote (77647)6/7/2010 1:33:14 PM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (4) | Respond to of 149317
 
RE:"And the Feds had what equipment and expertise immediately available that they would have deployed compared to what BP did?"

Maybe they could have commandeered a couple of empty tankers to vacuum it up at sea. At the spill site. Maybe they could have prepared to seal off critical inlets.

Maybe they could have mobilized a task force with skimmers, mops, buckets, straw and garbage bags. Military and prisoners maybe even volunteers, even people on unemployment benefits?

Much more at stake here than sending Lawyers and "making BP pay".

I guess their is a wide gulf between suers and doers?



To: Dale Baker who wrote (77647)6/7/2010 2:03:19 PM
From: tejek  Respond to of 149317
 
And the Feds had what equipment and expertise immediately available that they would have deployed compared to what BP did?

No one ever spells that out, they just assume there was a MAGIC solution out there that could have fixed it all right away.

That's right. Everyone is a critic....few are doers.


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