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

To: stockman_scott who wrote (78946)	6/29/2010 4:19:58 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

IMO you're being too hard on Salazar. How many years and hurricanes have we been drilling in the Gulf and there has been no major spill? In fact, this one is the first in the American portion of the Gulf. Furthermore, I think the drilling permit was pulled under the Bush administration not that that's all that significant. We have much more serious concerns than continuing this 24/7 angst over the Gulf. The leak will be stopped eventually. There will be a clean up. And new regs will be implemented. One problem with Salazar is that he was always a big supporter of increased offshore drilling (even when he was in the Senate)...that's not the kind of person who should be in charge of the department that regulates offshore drilling policies and permits...way too many environmental exemptions have been given out while Salazar has been running Interior...Yes, we'll have offshore drilling BUT I want someone running the department who will be very tough on the oil industry -- ask all the difficult questions up front and operate under the TRUST BUT VERIFY policy...and BP should never have been given a permit to drill at the Macondo well site given BP's terrible safety track record in North America (but nobody in government seemed to be concerned about that).