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it's like the budget, every little bit of help is significant.

To me it's just another case of the federal government getting in the way of the state government trying to get something done to help itself. When you add up the amount of international help we have turned away on technicalities plus this plus the Corps of Engineers standing in the way of the states attempt to construct barrier sand islands to keep the oil out...

I know the focus is on BP right now, they are the great satan and I'm certain the government wants to keep it that way because if the focus ever gets taken off of BP and all of the mistakes the feds have made get put under the microscope, it's not going to be pretty.

I get all of that, and I appreciate the sentiment... but the fact is that it isn't a big deal, and it isn't like it is something that the CG doesn't enforce constantly , everywhere.

Further more... this spill is (at low estimates) spilling at a rate of 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day.
1.5 Million gallons of cleanup (assuming that all rigs achieved maximum efficiency).... works out to: 35,700 barrels per day.


At BEST, the one day of lost work caused us to miss one day of flow.... but the likelihood is that is would have only cleaned up closer to 12 hours worth.

It's a wash. Any frustration over it is more symbolic of the effort as a whole thus far than over any truly tangible effects.

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If your house was burning down, would you want the fire marshal to come in, stop the firemen, and inspect their equipment, while you stood and watched your house burn down?

When the firemen went into the twin towers, would you have wanted the gov't. to come, stop all of them, and inspect their equipment to make sure they all had an extra air tank, 2 flashlights that had fresh batteries, check their coats to ensure that no cuts or slices existed - and then let them go back in after a day?

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Not even close to the same thing.. bad,, horrible examples..

We are talking about barges capturing oil, not people being saved from a burning building.

If the oil isn't scooped up today, it will still be there tomorrow..

But you missed my point,,, my point was, if they go in there lacking the proper safety equipment, and one person gets injured,, I promise, they'd beat the hell out of government for lack of oversight..

This disgusts me.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100618/ts_ynews/ynews_ts2703_8

That's putting it mildly.