-=> Ed Hulett wrote to Dave Drum <=-

 WC>> *Dick* Cheney was the cause for these devices no longer being required
 WC>> on U.S. offshore drilling rigs while the rest of the thinking world
 WC>> largely requires them.

 EH>> Really? How? Explain how a mere VP can cause such a thing.

 DD> Cheney was hardly a "mere VP". More like one of the main
operators of
 DD> the hand puppet, George III.

 EH> Keep telling yourself that.

Just keep burying your head in the sand and ignoring things that you feel are
"inconvenient". 
 
 DD> As to how he could cause such a thing - why by having the requirement
 DD> for such removed during his sub-rosa "energy" meetings in 2001.
 DD> Or when/after he had a separate meeting with John Browne, BP's (then)
 DD> chief executive.

 EH> It couldn't happen. He had no authority to do any such thing.

Keep telling yourself that. 
 
 DD> Those things are well-documented. Where have you been?

 EH> If they are so well documented, I'm sure you will have no trouble
 EH> giving a citation as to where that documentation can be found.

Left, Right, and Center ...

"Almost immediately after taking office, Vice President Cheney began meeting
with more than 100 oil executives, compiling a wish list of things they
wanted," Olbermann expounded. "One thing the industry did not want was
mandatory acoustic switches, which can shut wells remotely when blowout
preventers fail. The administration knew preventers fail because the MMS
[Materials Management Service]  found hundreds of incidents in which they did.
But it reversed a Clinton era decision requiring the essential acoustic
backups, calling them too costly, and those faulty blowout preventers a fail
safe."

www.businessandmedia.org

... this disaster should rightly be determined Cheney’s "Katrina"
if it is to
be anyone’s "Katrina", though it’s distressing that both the media and the
Right are obsessed with finding another President to be as incompetent as Bush
-- both for different reasons; one to grab eyeballs and one to make a desperate
false equivalency in order to justify the scathingly horrific Bush/Cheney
administration. At the very least, the Bush regulators need to explain how they
determined that the cost of the valves was not justified, in light of the 6
million dollar a day clean up cost of the Gulf Spill. 

www.politicususa.com

Bill Galston makes a very convincing case that the Bush Administration's
pro-oil disdain for environmental regulation, starring Dick Cheney, prevented
the government from requiring a remote control backup device that would have
prevented the spill. The device costs $500,000 per well. The spill will cost
billions.

swampland.blogs.time.com

What we do know is that unfettered oil drilling was to Dick Cheney’s domestic
concerns what the invasion of Iraq was to his foreign policy—a core objective,
implacably pursued regardless of the risks. Is there a connection between his
infamous secret energy task force and the corrupt mindset that came to dominate
a key program within MMS? Would $500,000 per rig have been regarded as an
unacceptably expensive insurance policy if a drill-baby-drill administration
hadn’t placed its thumb so heavily on the scale?

www.tnr.com


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