BP, Obama Administration hide fear irreversible damage from catastrophic Gulf oil spill

[jus_the_facts]

http://www.examiner.com/x-33986-Political-Spin-Examiner~y2010m5d9-Gulf-oil-spill-Suggestions-of-BP-cover-up-with-Obama-Administration-on-massive-amount-of-oil-being

Reports about a cover up by oil giant BP and the Obama Administration as to how much oil the Deepwater Horizon accident is really spilling into the Gulf of Mexico are beginning to surface.

SkyTruth.com estimates the true spill rate is more than 1 million gallons a day, based on satellite and Coast Guard images.

At that rate, there is an estimated 21 million gallons of oil currently floating around the Gulf of Mexico.

Sources within the Obama administration, FEMA and the Corps of Engineers have been “resisting releasing any "damaging information" about the oil disaster, according to oilprice.com.

If unofficial estimates are accurate, the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill will be the worst human and environmental disaster in the history of the world.

[Cant trust em]

1. Qutie a conspiracy theory brewing here. nt

[madmax]

3. If meant to scare us

it's working - on me. :hide:

[Bluebear]

6. Well, your name says it. :)

[EFerrari]

12. Oh, I don't know. After reading DUers' stories about FEMA

and the Army Corpse of Engineers, it's not difficult to make the leap.

I'm sorry this happened on Obama's watch. It's not like he didn't already have enough to do.

[madmax]

2. Doomsday scenario

and I am definately and sufficiently scared to death.

Just one example: Fish? Forget it - not for a long, long, long time.

[rzemanfl]

4. I live maybe 300 yards from the Gulf of Mexico. The checks on

my home "equity" line of credit still work. The new car is in the driveway (I really needed it.) What else should I get? Guns, camping equipment, gas masks, term life insurance?

[Vinnie From Indy]

5. Bottles of Squeeze Cheese...as many as you can

I, for one, have every faith in the world that we are being lied to on a grand scale. It's like the scorpion and the frog story.

[rzemanfl]

21. Can I eat the frog instead? n/t

[mdmc]

7. I bet the bailouts will be on the way.

The question remains - will homeowners be considered "too big to fail"?

[Bluebear]

8. lol

We know where the homeowners will be. Without a paddle.

[RedCloud]

9. How can this be the worst disaster? Supervolcanoes and comets kick its ass!

[Atman]

10. Different perspective:

If they admit the extent, BP will file bankruptcy tomorrow, and nobody but the U.S. taxpayers, Gulf fishermen and property owners, will be left to pay for it. Deal with it now before BP just says "fuck it" and goes home.

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[lunasun]

17. Bp will try to say F it for sure

Here is part of a letter I recvd from Sen. Durbin.......

Tell British Petroleum: Don't even think about dragging your feet, passing the buck, or billing American taxpayers so much as one penny (or one pence) for this mess.

Sure, BP has pledged to pay all "necessary and appropriate" clean-up costs, as well as "legitimate and objectively verifiable claims" for injuries and losses resulting from the spill.

But what happens when the TV crews pack up their cameras and the nation's attention shifts elsewhere?

Exxon's P.R. team made a similar promise shortly after its Valdez tanker spilled 11 million gallons of crude oil into Alaska's Prince William Sound. That was in 1989.

Almost two decades later Exxon's lawyers were still in court, refusing to pay damages. In the end Exxon-Mobil, the most profitable corporation in history, paid out just a fraction of what it owed.

Tell British Petroleum: Don't even think about dragging your feet, passing the buck, or billing American taxpayers so much as one penny (or one pence) for this mess.

British Petroleum likes to furnish an image of environmental responsibility, and sometimes they do good deeds. But we know better than to just take BP for its word. After all, this is the same company that only scrapped its plan to dump toxic chemicals into Lake Michigan after hearing from tens of thousands of DickDurbin.com activists like you back in 2007.

That experience showed us two things. It proved the power of ordinary citizens to take on even the most powerful multinational corporations -- and win. And it demonstrated that when profits are on the line, BP will only live up to its environmental commitments if the public demands it.

So as millions of gallons of oil creep ever closer to the American shoreline, threatening wildlife and the entire American economy, BP needs to know we're watching. Under no circumstances will we allow them to renege on their pledge to pay for all clean up costs and any damages that arise from this devastating spill.

Thank you for taking action.

Sincerely,

Dick Durbin
U.S. Senator

[Blue Owl]

11. the true price of gas rears its ugly head

What is the true cost of deregulation, privatization, and corporate oil barons such as the Bu$h/Cheney gang who have sold our government out to these companies?

Look at what this is costing us.

[Solomon]

13. There's a movement afoot to lay the blame completely

on Obama for the disaster. When that happens, it will ipso facto become the "worst human and environmental disaster in the history of the world" -- even if it was 10 barrels a day instead of a million.

This report says that it was the white house that pressured BP to release the video. You say Obama is trying to hide it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x8325633

[EFerrari]

14. That's a good point. I read this morning that the WH pressured BP

into releasing the film, too.

And you're right about the spin -- except, will the Republicans go there? It would be terrible for the market.

And, on the other hand, this did happen on Salazar's watch so the admin does bear responsibility for this mess.

Oy. It's going to be really hard to figure out what the hell is happening with everyone spinning in different directions.

[Solomon]

18. You know, I was really mad when Obama came out supporting

off-shore drilling. And then when this happened I knew he had put himself in the position of "owning" it to some degree. But given the environment we live in today, when everything seems to depend on media blitz and what the media tells us we should think, that maybe, as a coincidence, the fact that he came out in support of off-shore drilling innoculates him from the charge that he caused it to happen on purpose in order to stop off-shore drilling. The right wing would create a whole narrative for public consumption, that the administration did it to stop drilling. I believe that lie would have had plenty of legs.

[EFerrari]

19. We truly live under the tyranny of the right wing noise machine.

"Orwell Rolls in His Grave" is on right now on Link and I watch it again to try to stay in touch with some sense of independence, outside the noise.

[ProSense]

15. "according to oilprice.com."

"Reports about a cover up by oil giant BP and the Obama Administration "

Yeah, that's believable.

Oh brother.

[L0oniX]

16. Truth is an oxymoron for the government.

[jus_the_facts]

20. Yep...from bottom to top.

[spanone]

22. and what about cheney?