re: #20 LudwigVanQuixote

Which is everyone. For decades.

Don’t kid yourself that 20 billion will come even remotely close to the true cost of this.

I stayed out of the debate that Bagua was having last night on this, but it was much much more than cutting corners. There was also a corrupt aspect to the various government agencies that approved all of this in the first place without demanding any sort of emergency planning.

There is a corrupt aspect to the pet politicians of the oil companies. Everyone knows which party most of those folks belong to.

The $20 Billion will not be nearly enough, nor the $100 million that BP is disbursing.

But discussions about which party was more “to blame” are silly at this point, and they are distracting from the current issues that need to be dealt with, IMO, and I have been very very careful to try to keep MY focus on the issues, not this or that political party or mind-set.

If we want to get into a “blame” game, there’s plenty to go around. I suggest it’s not a productive conversation at this point, given which party is currently in control and was when these exceptions were issued.