But BHO is against that. She must be a racist.

Landrieu is the top BP cash recipient of in the last election cycle, with around $17,000 from the oil giant in 2008, and more than $28,000 in BP cash overall.

What a shocker that she’s using workers as a body shield while out there promoting oil interests over the interests of her constituents.

“It seems absurd to demand lifting the ban when BP has still not cleaned up its mess.”

Is BP the only company drilling in the Gulf? If not, it seems awfully harsh to punish the entire industry for the mistakes of one company. Some might call it “corporate profiling”. Imagine if we did that to people. What an outrage that would be.

BP and its employees have given more than $3.5 million to federal candidates over the past 20 years, with the largest chunk of their money going to Obama, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. Donations come from a mix of employees and the company’s political action committees — $2.89 million flowed to campaigns from BP-related PACs and about $638,000 came from individuals.

On top of that, the oil giant has spent millions each year on lobbying — including $15.9 million last year alone — as it has tried to influence energy policy.

During his time in the Senate and while running for president, Obama received a total of $77,051 from the oil giant and is the top recipient of BP PAC and individual money over the past 20 years, according to financial disclosure records.

Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html#ixzz0qTmS3VAu

I would think that halting offshore drilling would be devastating to the economy, as well as the price of gas.

Offshore drilling has ZERO effect on the price of gas. It’s a world market. What’s drilled offshore goes into an exchange. The jobs situation is a drop in the bucket compared to the number of people who have lost their jobs, livelihoods and way of life as a direct result of BP and the MMS’s malfeasance.

As for Obama being a big recipient of BP money, it’s vile and disgusting and exactly the reason that big money needs to be taken out of poliltics. Instead, we get the John Roberts Supreme Court literally opening the floodgates to corporate money.

Obama’s response to this disaster has been FAR too deferential to BP throughout this disaster. I would like to see BP’s assets seized and nationalized so that Shell and Exxon, as well as experts from other countries, could be brought in and this situation corrected.

That said, with all that campaign cash, Obama IS asking for a moratorium. Landrieu is asking for NO moratorium. I think the general public wants a moratorium, so Obama is responding to his constituents. Landrieu is not.

Which is why we here on the EastCoast have no sympathy for the idiots in her state. Drill Baby Drill but, don’t expect any sympathy from us and don’t expect us to pay for your stupidity! Enjoy swimming in shit!

Is is possible Obama is concerned about another rig exploding before it can be determined what caused this rig to explode? Like I said, just stupid!

whytee says:
June 10, 2010 at 3:33 pm

Offshore drilling has ZERO effect on the price of gas. It’s a world market.”

The price of oil is based on suppy and demand. The more oil there is, the lower the price will be if demand stays steady.

And how much of the energy we use comes from oil?

“The current data shows that around 40% of the energy consumed annually by the United States is produced by burning oil. The data for the last two years shows that more than two-thirds of burned oil was imported meaning that U.S. currently heavily depends on foreign oil import. ”

So where are you going to get another source to take up the 40% loss in energy?

The price of oil is NOT based on supply and demand. As demand drops in the US, the price often climbs, as it did during the last spike–which was caused entirely by speculation in the stock market.

To answer your second question, the fossil fuel industry has deliberately blocked innovation in alternate forms of energy to keep their cartels profitable and have been very successful at that racket for generations. There used to be trolley systems, train systems, etc., not to mention that the first cars ever ran on electricity, water and corn oil. Every attempt to innovate has been squashed. Every attempt to put limits on fuel efficiency have been watered down through the industry’s stranglehold on lawmakers.

The answer to energy independence will NEVER be solved in the US through oil because we simply do not have the supply–even if you drilled and pumped every reserve–to meet our immense demand.

Our only long-term solution is to develop wind, solar, geothermal and biomass energy and efficient cars that operate on batteries, biofuels or other non-fossil fuel energy system.

You can defend the stateless multi-national oil companies (which pay no taxes in the US and enjoy HUGE taxpayer-financed subsidies in the hundreds of millions) or you can put your political will behind actual innovation so the US can break free of its corporate stranglehold and catch up with the rest of the world, which isn’t waiting for us to innovate or taking its marching orders from gigantic corporations.

roxsteady, typical heartless lib, what a thing to say, you on the east coast don’t give a rats ass, thats nice, you must be the most unhappy lib out there, you are so out of touch of what goes on in the real world, its not just what goes on on the east coast, there are real people here, real families with kids, that need to work, they work for these oil companies, are not involved with the politics of ” drill baby drill”, its their livelihood, their whole life revolves around these jobs, they work two weeks at a time sometimes without seeing their families and then off one week, to make 45 to 60 thousand a year, no day off those two weeks, when things like this happen it cripples the whole state almost, but its a castrophe to the fisherman, hotels, resturants, it goes on and on, but you may hate BP and obama can roar all he wants but as families that need the jobs, we do not want them to go under, and lets not forget the oil that they pump that helps provide the gas for cars and at lower prices then if we have to all of a sudden rely just on foreign oil, if that happens then you will be sorry when gas is over 10.00 a gallon, oh but then you are from the east coast, you dont care most likely. so roxsteady, and others who bash the SENATOR from LA, she is only trying to save jobs, she knows what this will do to LA. why is it that all the libs were outraged at katrina and did all they could for LA but then villify the Sen.? OH I bet its because it was President Bush who was the president then, anything to bash him, all his fault huh? well obama has really let LA down on this one, his approval ratings went down today to the lowest its ever been, he is so out of touch, playing golf, basketball, vacations, fundraisers, having concerts at the WH, now who is the bad president????????

whytee says:
June 10, 2010 at 6:38 pm

The price of oil is NOT based on supply and demand.”

BS All you say is BS.

BHO LIED about experts asking for a drilling moratorium:

“Members of a panel of experts brought in to advise the Obama administration on how to address offshore drilling safety after the Deepwater Horizon disaster now say Interior Secretary Ken Salazar falsely implied they supported a six-month drilling moratorium they actually oppose.

Salazar’s May 27 report to President Barack Obama said a panel of seven experts “peer reviewed” his recommendations, which included a six-month moratorium on all ongoing drilling in waters deeper than 500 feet. That prohibition took effect a few days later, but the angry panel members and some others who contributed to the Salazar report said they had reviewed only an earlier version of the secretary’s report that suggested a six-month moratorium only on new drilling, and then only in waters deeper than 1,000 feet.

“We broadly agree with the detailed recommendations in the report and compliment the Department of Interior for its efforts,” a joint letter from the panelists to various politicians says. “However, we do not agree with the six month blanket moratorium on floating drilling. A moratorium was added after the final review and was never agreed to by the contributors.” …

whytee says:
June 10, 2010 at 3:33 pm
“I think the general public wants a moratorium, so Obama is responding to his constituents. Landrieu is not.”
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Landrieu’s constituents compose the state of LA, and Landrieu is “responding,” as you say, to us.
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roxsteady says:
June 10, 2010 at 6:04 pm
“Which is why we here on the EastCoast have no sympathy for the idiots in her state. Drill Baby Drill but, don’t expect any sympathy from us and don’t expect us to pay for your stupidity! Enjoy swimming in shit!”
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And what will you say if that “shit” hooks around to your east coast?

By the way,

I find it extremely odd the blog author casually omits that Mary Landrieu is a Democrat. Also, puzzling is no mention of her previous fame for what some people called “the Louisiana purchase” during the health care debate.

Rogue comic, this devastating oil gusher is so far drenching neighbor states in toxic sludge. Damage to the economy in the region and to the environment and wildlife diversity in the gulf affects all of us. This isn’t simply a Louisiana issue; it’s a national and global issue. Also, I haven’t seen any poll numbers on how much Louisianans want offshore drilling, but in neighboring Florida, which has been polled, approval is plummeting.

It might be convenient for Landrieu if residents of her state continue to support it, but a) I’m not sure that’s the case; and b) it’s a larger issue and affects a larger number of people.

To Roxsteady’s post, I think that’s malicious and totally missing the point. The people of Louisiana are victims of the oil cartels. They don’t deserve this, even if they’re misled by proven liars and corrupt media and politicians about its safety and necessity. This is a nightmarish economy thanks to years of deregulation and unequal wealth concentration, and people still need to have a place to live and a job. No one deserves this.

Lastly, Mary Landrieu is a Democrat. They can’t all be Bernie Sanders. A lot of the so-called ConservaDems are just as corporate and just as compromised by Big Oil and other big business forces as the Republicans. Until we get money out of politics, with serious public financing of elections and restraints on corporate bribery, this is the kind of crap we’ll be stuck with.

whytee, of course the spill is a global issue, but Mary Landrieu’s first duty is to the people who elected her. She’s also not exactly what I would call a “ConseraDem,” but my point was author Meenal Vamburkar omitted her political affiliation.

There you go, slap a moratorium on those poor people down there and drive them further into despair. Get the God Damned British and China out of the Gulf. Let us do the drilling and drill closer to shore where its shallower and safer. One rule! you can’t keep it clean you don’t get the lease! If you don’t like that then we need to start building nuclear plants. There just isn’t enough wind in the U. S. to supply us with power. Every time I drive through Palm Springs. I laugh at those stupid windmills. Half of them not running because they are broken or there just is no wind. Not to mention an eyesore! http://www.freefoto.com/images/39/01/39_01_1—Wind-Turbine-Generators–Palm-Springs–California_web.jpg

Meenal Vamburkar wrote:
It seems absurd to demand lifting the ban when BP has still not cleaned up its mess.

Really? Why? Is that your “expert” opinion? What do you base that on, cuz the actual experts would tell you that your argument is absurd.

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/06/10/experts-say-obama-misrepresented-views-justify-offshore-drilling-ban/

Also quit driving so God Damn much!!!

I can’t count the number of Escalades and High performance cars I see in California., and the State is going bankrupt. What is your peoples problem!!! How about we take your Oil away and you can ride around in windmill cars???

Anybody who wants Oil drilling stopped. Everytime you pump gasoline in your vehicle, smile in pump camera and say ” I’m a two- faced hypocrite ” .

A tiny moment of fame. Good for you! Duh.