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Originally Posted by Ethersync
Do you think BP made the oil leak on purpose?
Here is the entire quote...
"What I don't like from the President's administration is this sort of, you know, I'll put my boot heal on the throat of BP. I think that sounds really un-American in his criticism of business. I've heard nothing from BP about not paying for the spill and I think it's part of this sort of blame game society in the sense that it's always got to be someone's fault instead of the fact that maybe sometimes accidents happen."
I think both the government and BP are to blame for the oil spill. BP for not taking proper safety precautions and the government for giving BP a waiver and not requiring them to take the proper safety precautions. It is going to take about 3 months to drill relief wells to fix this problem so it won't be going away anytime soon.
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I agree with you completely. Both BP and the government are to blame. The government should never had even made it possible for them to drill without the safety valves in place. Yes, they are expensive, but now we are seeing what can happen when they aren't used. Let's not forget it was the republicans under Bush that made it so that those valves would not have to be used.
As for Paul, he is off base. Obama has every right to be hyper critical of BP and put his foot down on them. It was an accident, yes, but there were safety precautions available to them that they chose not to use in order to save some money and now they have caused a natural disaster of epic proportion. Aside from not have the valves in place they clearly have/had no real plan in place about what to do if something like this happened. If you can't tear into a company for acting irresponsibly for something like this, than what can you criticize them for?