"To push BP out of the way would raise the question, 'and replace them with what?'"

[WeDidIt]

Thad Allen, moments ago.

UPDATED TO ADD: Jindal's berms will take an extremely long time, six to nine months in some cases.

So Jindal is a posturing bastard on top of being a hypocrite.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. Replace them with a more responsible company, duh!

If such a company exists...

:eyes:

[gateley]

7. He said that BP is the only one with the equipment that can address

this. Probably better companies, but maybe they don't have the proper resources, and we certainly don't.

I wonder if we could just move in our people (and the other experts the admin has gathered) and use their equipment.

-

[Go2Peace]

9. BP does not "own" the equipment. They are simply managers. They subcontract all the work

[CaliforniaPeggy]

14. I'd like to see this happen too.

[no_hypocrisy]

2. Army Corps of Engineers, MIT Deans List Students and Alumni

[Egnever]

3. Why Haliburton of course

What a silly question

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

4. What is "gravestones", Alex?

:shrug:

[DevonRex]

5. And, once pushed out of the way, BP might not be liable for future damages.

I'd like to know what government agency folks think is in the deep water drilling business.

[Sebastian Doyle]

10. Nobody needs to be in the "deep water drilling business"

This shit needs to stop. NOW.

[WeDidIt]

17. Too late for that now.

Stop new ones, but there are already dozens upon dozens of operating wells and contractual obligations between the United States and the oil companies on many more that are drilling right now

[Sebastian Doyle]

20. Fuck the contracts

Call it a matter of national security. Which it is. End this destruction, or it will end us.

[WeDidIt]

21. What country or group is attacking the wells with bombs and boats?

National security my ass.

[Sebastian Doyle]

22. In this case, it would be the UK

and maybe Dubai, since that's where Halliburton pretends to be from now (for purposes of tax evasion)

[gateley]

19. Ooh -- good point. nt

[donco6]

6. Well, by all means, let's keep them there in perpetuity.

Even after it's been revealed that their own shoddy tactics led to this catastrophe in the first place, ignoring shredded rubber from the BOP seals, plugging the well in an unorthodox manner, skipping inspections on technical drawings and specs. Why WOULDN'T we want them in place? How much worse could it get?

[amborin]

11. after surgeon botches the operation, why is he still in charge repairing life-threatening damage?

[donco6]

16. Is he? n/t

[meegbear]

8. Stop trying to "save the oil" and plug the fucking thing up!!!

[Cleita]

I think we need to put other people in charge, but

I see no reason for BP to be pushed out altogether unless they refuse to work under new management. I think the govt. would have to seize their equipment though because I don't think we have much to replace it.

[joeybee12]

12. So, we can't just be in charge? We have to send BP back to England?

We can't oversee what they're doing monitor what they're doing, INSIST they don't LIE about what they're doing?

[ProSense]

13. The imaginary experts

Sylvia Earle:

the industry, the oil industry, has the best technology presently in the world, except maybe certain navies, for actually observing and working in the sea. link

The President should absolutely not take on BP's liability.

[donco6]

18. There is no release of liability in eliminating incompetents.

Besides, we don't have the backbone to hold BP liable anyway. We didn't with Exxon either.

[chill_wind]

23. We don't hold anybody liable for anything, not even war criminals and torturers or banksters

that have bled us dry. War criminals and inept liars have cost us trillions in dollars, untold amounts of death, dismemberment and mayhem. I don't see any of them being held "liable".

Liability. I LOVE this hot new buzz word.

[donco6]

27. You have a point there.

So what does it matter that we remove these thugs immediately? They won't be held liable either way.

[chill_wind]

30. I'd agree.

That idle talking point is making me insane!

[zonkers]

15. The newly formed International Ocean Police.

[Arkana]

35. Fuck that. Aquaman.

[stray cat]

24. Many DUers want to replace them with 19 year old coast guards

or members of the house and senate

[donco6]

26. Who?

Curious - I haven't seen that.

[Swamp Rat]

25. You don't know jack shit. eom

[Xicano]

29. I agree. In the last few days he's sounded like nothing but a gasbag IMO

n/t

[Xicano]

28. With a different company.

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=87075

http://www.slb.com/subsea

http://www.islandoffshore.com/#cid=58

http://www.akersolutions.com/Internet/IndustriesAndServices/Wellintervention/default.htm

[jp11]

31. If the man in charge Thad Allen wanted them out or had issues with dealing with them I think it

would get taken care of one way or another.

[William Z. Foster]

32. with federal authority

Of course. As always in all civilized societies.

The very fact that this idea is controversial - or not understood - is one of the most telling and alarming signs of just how far we have descended into moral depravity imaginable.

This is the libertarian privatization doctrines run amok.

Responding to emergencies such as this to protect public welfare is the very reason we have governments at all. People disputing this are not merely arguing against all liberal and progressive ideals, against everything that the Democratic party once stood for, they are arguing against all ideas about government from the Enlightenment on - maybe even worse than that.

People are arguing, aggressively and relentlessly, to promote and defend some sort of nightmarish corporate neo-feudalism. It is stunning to see.

[freddie mertz]

33. Right. Let's give them a fucking medal too.

What stinking bullshit this is.

[Arkana]

34. It's wonderful that Jindal has a solution. Really. It is.

But don't go parading around on TV like you're gonna have everything fixed up by tomorrow.