re: #194 Racer X

5k, 12k, 30k - the exact amount leaking per day doesn’t matter. That is a shitload of oil they need to clean up.

I heard today that Obama wants BP to pay the salaries of all those employees that HE has told can no longer work pulling oil out of the ground. True?

Check this story.

Sen. Mary Landrieu (D., La.), said that if the moratorium “lasts very much longer than a few months, it could potentially wreak economic havoc on this region that exceeds the havoc wreaked by the rig itself.”

Mr. Salazar insisted that “the importance of the jobs that are at stake here has been very much on the mind of the president and my mind as well.” He also promised Ms. Landrieu that the Obama administration would make BP pay salaries of oil-services workers who lose their jobs due to the effects of the oil spill.

Ms. Landrieu asked Mr. Salazar that if “the oil-services companies have to either go out of business or take bankruptcy or lay off classes of workers, are you going to ask BP to pick up their salaries and to make them whole?”

Mr. Salazar replied: “The answer to that is yes, we will.”

Lotta good that’s going to do, BP is not exactly keeping up with the claims people are making.