Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other

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Brain -> Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/10/2010 10:45:41 PM)
The government should put a lien on these companies immediately, right now, before they liquidate or sell any assets in order to recover to the maximum extent possible the damage they created. Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other Executives from the three companies most implicated in the disastrous oil-rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico will point fingers at each other Tuesday morning, according to the testimony they've prepared for much-anticipated hearing of the Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee. Lamar McKay, president and chairman of BP America, will make a point of telling the committee that it wasn't actually BP's rig, stressing that the rig and its blowout preventer belonged to Transocean Limited. Steven Newman, Transocean's president and CEO, will testify that his team was just doing what BP told them to do, how BP told them to do it -- and anyway it was subcontractor Halliburton's fault. And Tim Probert, Halliburton's chief safety officer, will say that his company simply did what it was told, following industry practice. And he'll point out that Transocean, not Halliburton, was doing something when the rig blew. BP's McKay (read the full text of his prepared statement here) portrays his company as something of a victim: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/10/gulf-spill-hearing-oil-ex_n_570827.html

pahunkboy -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 6:22:31 AM)
Well no. It is your fault. You gluttony consumer oil with no regard to your carbon foot print.

Aneirin -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 8:30:46 AM)
That is a foregone conclusion, as no one in our less honourable society it seems will accept blame, even when they are ultimately and completely due it. But with our need and hunger for what we want in life, there will always be casualties and nature given the fact that it is someone elses problem and will always be the fall guy. The prospectors will come, take and go and leave the problems for someone and everything else, for as ever when big business or powerful people are involved money the creation and conservation of it is always the prime and overriding factor.

servantforuse -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 10:07:19 AM)
Great idea brain, have the federal government take over the oil companies.

rulemylife -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 10:15:17 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: servantforuse Great idea brain, have the federal government take over the oil companies. That's not what he said. Find a dictionary and look up lien.

servantforuse -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 10:28:16 AM)
I know what a lein is. I just put one someones house.

tazzygirl -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 10:37:14 AM)
quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy Well no. It is your fault. You gluttony consumer oil with no regard to your carbon foot print. and what is your carbon footprint, pahunk? how often do you drive? how much energy do you consume? do you buy local or commercial? do you order alot of things or only buy from local merchants? carbon footprints encase more than just the saturday afternoon drive.

thishereboi -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 10:42:45 AM)
Good question tazzy. I wonder how much energy it takes to post this message? Now, some will come back with things like, I make my own power, but what about the servers that cm uses? And their internet providers? When you think about it, if you are on here posting, you are making a footprint. To the op....Yea that's a great idea brain, why don't you drop them a line and suggest it. Or better yet, shoot Obama a letter, didn't you say the two of you were pen pals?

pahunkboy -> RE: Gulf Spill Hearing: Oil Execs Will Point Fingers At Each Other (5/11/2010 12:46:54 PM)
quote: ORIGINAL: tazzygirl quote: ORIGINAL: pahunkboy Well no. It is your fault. You gluttony consumer oil with no regard to your carbon foot print. and what is your carbon footprint, pahunk? how often do you drive? how much energy do you consume? do you buy local or commercial? do you order alot of things or only buy from local merchants? carbon footprints encase more than just the saturday afternoon drive. Of course it is my fault too. Anyone who feeds the beast is to blame. We fund this- therefor the blame is on us.

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