Oil Spill

[HungLikeJesus]

Quote:

Sex For Oil Scandal At Interior Department
Government officials handling billions of dollars in oil royalties engaged in illicit sex with employees of energy companies they were dealing with and received numerous gifts from them, federal investigators said Wednesday.

The allegations of bad behavior involve 13 government employees in Denver and Washington, reports CBS News investigative correspondent Sharyl Attkisson. Those accused are workers who sell U.S. mineral rights to oil companies. Such sales are one of the government's biggest sources of revenue besides taxes.

But the Inspector General for the Interior Department says they rigged contracts, and engaged in illegal moonlighting, drugs, sex and gift-taking from oil company representatives, according to three reports released Wednesday.

I really miss that job.

[tw]

Originally Posted by classicman

Wasn't there an employee, a manager I believe, who gave an interview early on saying that pieces of rubber or some such were coming out that morning?

Testimony was from the joint Coast Guard / MMS investigation in Kenner LA. Numerous employees who were there (and still alive) testified that rubber was found in the mud pits - where mud coming up from the well was collected.

In that same testimony, the BOP failed its test when pressure was at the required numbers. It only passed when pressure was increased (to 1600 psi?). And then the tech said he restored regulators back to the required pressures after that test.

We will be learning (in Congressional testimony starting today) that subverting and ignoring routine safety procedures in the name of cost reductions was routine especially in the past decade. Was all but encouraged when government pressured the oil industry to seek domestic oil sources in deeper water in the name of a mythical 'energy independence'. Attitude that encouraged failures came from the highest levels of corporation management where 85% of all problems originate.

[Stormieweather]

Originally Posted by tw

~snip~

But they did have good sex.

Well, thank God someone did.

[classicman]

Originally Posted by tw

Testimony was from the joint Coast Guard / MMS investigation in Kenner LA. Numerous employees who were there (and still alive) testified that rubber was found in the mud pits - where mud coming up from the well was collected.

That was it - There was youtube video of the one man I referred to that I cannot seem to locate. Very telling indeed.

Was all but encouraged when government pressured the oil industry to seek domestic oil sources in deeper water in the name of a mythical 'energy independence'. Attitude that encouraged failures came from the highest levels of corporation management where 85% of all problems originate.

It was not just 'energy independence', it was also the environmentalists and the NIMB crowd. They were more concerned with the view from their private beaches.

[TheMercenary]

Anyone read the Rolling Stone coverage of the oil spill? Pretty damming for the government.

[tw]

Originally Posted by classicman

It was not just 'energy independence', it was also the environmentalists and the NIMB crowd. They were more concerned with the view from their private beaches.

Nonsense. Any oil obtained off the beaches - IMBackyard - was already tapped. Those oil platforms were already there. Any oil IMBackyard had been already tapped.

It was 100% about getting domestic oil in 1000 feet oceans. Otherwise oil must come from overseas. Or else America might have to innovate. It was all about building more V-8 GM cars using lies rather than innovating - ie hybrids. It was all about "drill baby drill" rather than 'work smarter'. The policy throughout the 2000s was to do anything to 'protect our oil'. Same philosophy that justified a massacre of 4000 American soldiers in "Mission Accomplished". A philosophy deeply imbedded in the minds of people such as Cheney.

The mythical energy independence meant doing anything to get more oil - rather than address the rediculous reasons for that oil.

Ten gallons of gasoline is burned in a car. How many of those ten gallons actually move the car? Between one and two. More than 8 out of every 10 gallons is completely wasted as heat, noise, etc. Because energy is so rediculously cheap according to those who then say we need to take these risks rather than innovate.

[TheMercenary]

Obama will get a black eye for this one...

[tw]

Ten gallons burned in a car. More than 8 get wasted. Do nothing. Why? Because throughout post WWII history, we spend virtually no money on energy research. Instead, wacko politiicans want to hype an energy plan rather then do R&D.

We were spending more on research for pet food that spend on energy research. The same people then say, "Drill baby drill". Research and innovation so hated because we might use windmills and solar cells.

[HungLikeJesus]

There's a large Purina pet food plant next to I-70 on the way to the airport. When ever I go by there the smell makes me hungry.

I guess all that research is paying off.

[TheMercenary]