The Gulf-Who is at Fault?
Why did the Gulf oil spill happen? It is the first time in 40 years something like this had happened. Let me propose a scenario for you. September 17, 2008 Congress approves offshore drilling in the Atlantic and Pacific coasts, but only if drilling is 50 miles or more off the coast and only if a state agrees to energy development off its shore. Do you see a picture forming? The democratic Congress agreed to drilling, but waaaay out there in deep water. President Bush said he was prepared to veto the measure if it reached his desk. Bush did not veto it (H. Josef Hebert, Associated Press, 2008).
Next, BP Chief Tony Hayward sold some of his BP shares weeks before the spill. He sold 1.4 million pounds of his shares. Please, let some smart person figure the dollar value. However, it is more than two million. The shares were sold on/about March 17, 2010. The oil spill happened on April 20, 2010 (Swaine and Winnett, 2010, Telegraph, UK). Another group, Goldman-Sachs also sold most of their shares of BP stock as well. Goldman-Sachs is affiliated with BP in some financial arrangement.
April 20, 2010, the oil rig exploded, killing eleven people. Within two days, the Russians claimed that North Korea had fired a torpedo into the rig, causing the first explosion. Within minutes, a secondary explosion occurred directly underneath the rig, effectively destroying it. Russia claimed that the North Korean submarine was the cause of the secondary explosion also. Their claim is that North and South Korea are still technically at war. If this is the case, then the UN should issue a proclamation resoundingly condemning the attack. I do not find the North Korean attack credible. In less than a month, Obama issued a moratorium, for all-offshore drilling, for six months, or more.
The April 20 explosion was also Adolf Hitler’s birthday.
We know that Obama does not like oil drilling. We cannot drill for oil on land. All that is or was available to us was offshore drilling. Now that is gone. He has effectively cut us off from oil independence. We will now have to spend billions of dollars more to our enemies to import oil. Why did Congress require only offshore drilling more than 50 miles offshore? Most of the 18 billion barrels of oil is within 50 miles from the coast. If any spills occurred in shallow water, it would have been so much easier to contain, and a whole lot faster. This spill took BP 86 days to cap that spill. China and Russia will be drilling for oil in the Gulf.
This spill put thousands out of work. This spill will cost us our independence. The first lady has ben hawking on TV for Americans to vacation along the Gulf States. Where did the Obamas go for a vacation-Maine! We will have tremendous increases in gas prices, food prices, Heating and cooling prices. The cost of almost everything that depends on oil will go up, and up, and up.
I am not saying that this was a crisis that Andy Stern and Holder could not take advantage of, but…. In these 86 days, Obama took two vacations, and played a lot of golf. I am not saying that the two explosions were caused by a third-party, but…. I do not believe it was the North Koreans who caused it, Russia said it. Could the Russian allegation be a Red Herring? I am saying that possibly people who want the US to go green now instead of 10 years from now, may have been responsible. I am not saying that anyone in the white house planned and instigated it, but…. I am sure that Greenpeace, the Sierra Club, and other greenies would not take advantage. Just ask the question: Why did Hayward and Goldman-Sachs sell stock a month before the spill? Were they warned ahead of time? They are in bed with the white house, BP negotiated with Libya and the UK to let the Lockerbie bomber free. Follow the money, follow the money! Who does have the Power?
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” – Abraham Lincoln
Tags: Andy Stern, environmentalists, Eric Howder, green terrorists, North Korea, Obama, oil spill, Sabotage
