Posts Tagged ‘bp’

On Morning Joe: Lets go get BP!

Posted: June 2, 2010 by datechguy in business, opinion/news
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On Morning Joe today they are going the whole “Bring them to justice” mode.

Everybody seems to be acting as if BP was just dying to release oil into the Gulf, but what really annoys me is the suggestion that BP isn’t trying to fix this.

Does anyone seriously doubt that from Day 1 BP has been trying to plug and/or stop that leak. Is there anyone who seriously thinks that they WANT oil spilling into the gulf?

Naturally there are going to be lawyers and suits and that is a cost of doing business, that’s cool. When you get you get the type of accident that happens once every two generations like this one is going to be expensive, that’s cool and fair but lets not forget that the goal isn’t to break the company, lose the energy it produces or the jobs it creates.

Actually that is a goal for some but it shouldn’t be a goal for us.

Update: The Anchoress Tweets along those lines:

Good thing about BP Oil Spill: it’s got Obama talking about “jobs.” I wonder how many will lose jobs w/ drilling stopped?

Yup that’s it.

A kinder gentler oil rethoric

Posted: May 6, 2010 by datechguy in media, opinion/news
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Interesting take on Morning Joe this morning:

The administration is now taking heat over its slow response to the oil leak. Joe and Mike Barnicle both agreed that BP was working with the government and that their response has been good.

This is in stark contrast to the Boot on the Neck rhetoric of the administration.

The problem is they can’t go after BP without highlighting the administrations response. Watch for more BP “stepping up to the plate” rhetoric on CNN & MSNBC.

With stories coming out about the Obama administration’s cash connections and the head of interior rafting while the gulf leaked the White House would rather have a different tone of stories out there.

Oh and Barnicle is right they have stepped up to the plate but nobody wanted to talk about that before.

Head of the petroleum institute on Morning Joe

Posted: May 4, 2010 by datechguy in opinion/news
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This is going to be interesting:

Mika is asking him about long term issues: Jack Gerard points out their own people are folks who live there and notes that this doesn’t change the energy equation in the country.

Ratigan asked about safety caps: Says the US studied caps, Ratigan talks about the quality of rules vs quantity. I wonder if he will apply that standard on the Banking and securities bill.

Gerard keeps pounding the rarity of this and suggest we don’t shut down the shuttle when it blew up nor airlines when a plane crashes.

Joe asks if the standards need to be tougher: Gerard agrees and keeps coming back to the problem at hand.

A pretty fair interview