The Deepwater Horizon Two Years Later

American Thinker,  Bruce Thompson

• Until now, the government has had a pretty free hand in criticizing the offshore oil industry. Now industry gets a chance to criticize government. 
• The lowest risk and lowest-chance-of-success options were chosen first. At the end, what was done to contain (the well) -- it's possible it could have been done in the beginning.
• Ouch! You mean it needn't have taken 87 days to stop the flow of oil?
• But a version of the plan that ultimately worked was proposed in the earliest days of the crisis by experts from a Houston firm, Wild Well Control Inc.
• What probably best summarizes the politicization of the source control efforts is this e-mail reported by Joel Achenbach in his book (pp 212-213), A Hole in the Bottom of the Sea, from Admiral Allen to BP's Bob Dudley.
• And it clearly demonstrates the fanaticism of the "principals" within the Obama administration, particularly Steven Chu, to their oil collection agenda, one intended to measure the flow of oil so as to solidify their claims to the maximum fines under the Oil Pollution Act and thereby punish BP, without regard for the collateral damage on the residents of the Gulf Coast

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Comment:

This is damning to this Administration.  They made the spill worse than it had to be and tried to politicize it for the purposes of punishing BP.

This is what needs to be remembered when Obama claims to be for "all of the above" when it comes to energy.  He is fanatical about stopping the oil industry and this was his big opportunity to do it.  When it failed and began to backfire, he begins to cover it all up.  People have to be fooled.