Obama Blows It In The Gulf

[mrjarrell]

The Dutch, who are pro's at oil spills offered help immediately after the Deep Horizon spill began. Obama dithered, (and is still dithering). The Dutch have the equipment and knowledge to get right to work and succeed where Obama is failing, (BP wanted the Dutch to come in, too). And a lot of help that Obama did accept was half-a**ed. He accepted the use of the Dutch equipment, but not the trained people to run it. Those positions were reserved for union people who must be trained to use the equipment.
Thank goodness for the foreign press who are covering this. The US media is giving Obama and his union pals a pass while the Gulf Coast is decimated. Haven't heard any republicrats screaming about this either. Guess they're saving their ire for November.

via The Financial Post

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.
The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. "Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour," Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.
To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn't capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana's marshlands with sand barriers. One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks.
The Dutch know how to handle maritime emergencies. In the event of an oil spill, The Netherlands government, which owns its own ships and high-tech skimmers, gives an oil company 12 hours to demonstrate it has the spill in hand. If the company shows signs of unpreparedness, the government dispatches its own ships at the oil company's expense. "If there's a country that's experienced with building dikes and managing water, it's the Netherlands," says Geert Visser, the Dutch consul general in Houston.
In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer --the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge.

More at the source.

 

[ATOMonkey]

Yep.

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

 

[Eddie]

Just shorten the title of this thread down to the first two words and you will have said it all.

 

[88GT]

There was a similar article on townhall.com illustrating the numerous ways in which bureaucratic chest-thumping stood in the way of very real efforts by the state of Alabama to mitigate the imminent damage.

 

[NordicHeathenVinlander]

Well with an agenda like the Dutch and they're foreign Media how can we trust the Dutch?






Obama is an idiot, and has proven multiple times he doesnt give a rats **** about America or it's people.

 

[00BlasterResto]

It's not lookin good, thats forsure.

 

[Doug]

The thing that no one has pointed out is that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Georgia all voted for McCain and Florida went for Obama by only 2% (51-49). So WHY would he care what happened to the people in those states. They didn't vote for him, so they can go spit.
Isn't that Chicago politics?

 

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

Just shorten the title of this thread down to the first two words and you will have said it all.

Dangit, you beat me too it !! I seen this post and I was gonna say that.

 

[downzero]

I think the real catastrophe is that this has been allowed to become political. This really is a terrible tragedy, and the environmental damage will be here for generations to come.

It's a shame that Obama interfered with the efforts to mitigate much of it. His stupidity is going to go long beyond his Presidency, because the damage is so substantial.

I'm usually the kind of person to say "screw the environment," but this a totally different ball game.

 

[sadclownwp]

so what you guys are saying is Obama=Idiot. looks mathematically sound to me

 

[MACHINEGUN]

I heard Obama also blows men.. not just oil gulf disasters.

 

[Boilers]

hard to decide whom to rep above.

 

[DragonGunner]

Glenn Beck said today that so far 600,000 barrels have been collected by ships. We have a ship ready to go that can collect 500,000 barrels a DAY!!! But Obama won't release it an its just sitting at dock. EPA is still considering if its ok to use....?! Of course all you know Obama has ties with Brazilian Oil right? Thats who Obama wants to go to, to buy oil from after oil production is slowed or halted to some degree here.

 

[mrjarrell]

Actually, the US skimmers haven't collected 600K barrels of oil. They collected barrels of water with oil mixed in it. There's a big difference, as the article points out. They're catching more water than they are oil.

 

[longbow]

the closed beaches and waterfronts are disaster areas.....they don't let you to them to take pictures or walk around. They won't let us see how bad it really is. Notice how few pictures of damage are floating around.....

 

[44 MAGNUM SHOOTER]

Here is Obama about ready to Blow Jimmy - LOL !!

 

[dleeharrison]

This is this most absurd thing that I have ever heard of. There is existing technology that is not being used that is used by industry to separate oil from water. Surface skim the oil and water mixture, run it to a holding tank and then run it through an API oil - water separator which separates the oil from the water - discharge the water and collect the oil for further processing. The API separators are stock items and are used by oil refiners as well as countless industrial site which have wate contaminated by oil.

Unfortunately, our government and this president is out to lunch and hopefully out a job in a couple of years.

 

[ocsdor]

These are the people taking over health care soon.

 

[Doug]

Obama is either abysmally stupid or malicious and evil; I don't see a third choice.

 

[lashicoN]

These are the people taking over [STRIKE]health care[/STRIKE] every aspect of our lives soon.

I fixed it for you.