Dear god, can you guys believe that stuff about the other companies plans for how to deal with a oil well disaster?

One question? does not BP have insurance?

Hilarious how he dissects the oil companies' plans. Stewart has really risen above his competitors this past year or so.

re: #3 freetoken

Hilarious how he dissects the oil companies' plans. Stewart has really risen above his competitors this past year or so.

Who exactly is his competition? Besides Stephen Colbert of course...

re: #4 jamesfirecat

Who exactly is his competition? Besides Stephen Colbert of course...

Fox, CNN, MSNBC...

re: #1 jamesfirecat

Dear god, can you guys believe that stuff about the other companies plans for how to deal with a oil well disaster?

At least they're consistent and uniform.

re: #4 jamesfirecat

yeah, I suppose Colbert is his main "competition", but Stewart is funnier than many of the comedy shows on TV.

Video isn't available outside the US. Anybody have any link love?

re: #8 Sand Panda

Video isn't available outside the US. Anybody have any link love?

Try comedycentral.com

"What the **** was that last one?"

re: #2 brookly red

One question? does not BP have insurance?

They do...they also own the insurance company they use.

"No Steve don't shoot! I'm the only one who knows how to clean up oil spills in the gulf!"

Apologies if this got posted several days ago, but under the general heading of teeing off on BP, this bit of (sadly) comic relief:

BP -- Coffee Spill

re: #11 darthstar

They do...they also own the insurance company they use.

Wait... how does that even work? Do they end up owing themselves money?

Disdainful Asshole Digest probably has a really big GOP subscriber base.

re: #14 jamesfirecat

Wait... how does that even work? Do they end up owing themselves money?

They write off the expenses, and also get to claim them as revenue.

re: #15 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Disdainful Asshole Digest probably has a really big GOP subscriber base.

And a centerfold of Glenn Beck wearing nothing but baby oil.

re: #17 darthstar

And a centerfold of Glenn Beck wearing nothing but baby oil.

You son of a bitch.

heh.
Actually, the representatives from the other companies were answering truthfully.
BP has long been known in the biz as being technology idiots.

re: #17 darthstar

And a centerfold of Glenn Beck wearing nothing but baby oil.

...

*Grabs drill and bottle of brain bleach*

re: #18 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

You son of a bitch.

Even brain-bleach won't get that image out of your mind.

Holy crap...Algeria has a penalty kick from 20 yards coming.

re: #16 darthstar

They write off the expenses, and also get to claim them as revenue.

My head just exploded....

re: #21 darthstar

Even brain-bleach won't get that image out of your mind.

Holy crap...Algeria has a penalty kick from 20 yards coming.

The Ann Coulter/Pat Buchanan Femdom bondage scene was worse.

re: #19 reine.de.tout

heh.
Actually, the representatives from the other companies were answering truthfully.
BP has long been known in the biz as being technology idiots.

So that's why their spill-prevention information is exactly the same as BP's?

Hmm.

Comforted, I am not.

re: #22 jamesfirecat

My head just exploded...

Clean-up, Aisle Four!

Joe Barton, Mr. Oil Money to the tune of $1.4 million dollars, thinks it's a damn shame for a private company to be expected to pay for their gigantic turd in the punchbowl, because that thar money could be used to reelect him for another round of protecting corporate CEOs from the small people.

re: #24 Cato the Elder

So that's why their spill-prevention information is exactly the same as BP's?

Hmm.

Comforted, I am not.

The other companies have not gotten to that point, have they?
Just BP.

re: #6 BigPapa

At least they're consistent and uniform.

They probably all bought it from the same company.

/Disasters-R-Us

re: #17 darthstar

And a centerfold of Glenn Beck wearing nothing but baby oil.

How unfortunate!

re: #27 reine.de.tout

The other companies have not gotten to that point, have they?
Just BP.

Dumb luck, probably.

re: #24 Cato the Elder

So that's why their spill-prevention information is exactly the same as BP's?

Hmm.

Comforted, I am not.

They all pretty much admitted to congress that they have no real plan in place to handle a catastrophic oil leak like Deep Horizon.
Scary.

Second Republican Demands Barton Step Down From Energy Post

re: #32 Killgore Trout

The Sharks smell blood from a self inflicted wound.

re: #30 Cato the Elder

Dumb luck, probably.

Not really.

re: #19 reine.de.tout

heh.
Actually, the representatives from the other companies were answering truthfully.
BP has long been known in the biz as being technology idiots.

The other companies would not have taken a failed negative test showing a bad cement job and concluded that the cement job was OK.

Which is one question that Mr. Hayward was not asked about, and it was an important one.

It happens regularly.

re: #35 reine.de.tout

The other companies would not have taken a failed negative test showing a bad cement job and concluded that the cement job was OK.

Which is one question that Mr. Hayward was not asked about, and it was an important one.

It happens regularly.

I sure hope this is the kind of thing brought up at a criminal trial.

re: #2 brookly red

One question? does not BP have insurance?

I'm not sure there's enough insurance in the world to pay for the Gulf of Mexico.

re: #36 Fozzie Bear

I sure hope this is the kind of thing brought up at a criminal trial.

I do too.
And another point -
Schlumberger had employees out there to run some tests. BP decided the tests were not needed, and planned to send the folks back in on the next day's flight.
Schlumberger chartered a helicopter to go out and pick up their employees that day.

Those flights are expensive and usually will make stops at several rigs, dropping people off, picking people up. For a company to charter a helicopter to get its employees off the rig that day, when they know the employees will be sent in the next day at another company's expense - well, I've never heard of that being done. Schlumberger, I think, must have known something was off.

Has this been circulated yet?

Joe Barton Would Like To Apologize To:

I'm surprised Stewart did such a long segment on the dead contact info guy, which, I mean... okay, so contact lists rot. Yes, they should have been on top of it, but that seems like a (barely) understandable oversight.

However, even funnier, is that all of these companies' plans weren't just cut and pasted from each other. They were cut and pasted from their disaster plans for Alaska. They talk about plans to reduce a Gulf spill's impact on local wildlife. You know, like walruses.