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    Trump erases offshore drilling rules enacted after BP oil spill

    See more at the link https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...-rules-1404098

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    The Trump administration on Thursday dismantled safety rules for offshore drilling put in place by the Obama administration after the disastrous BP oil spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico nearly a decade ago.

    The rollbacks are a major victory for the oil and gas industry that has criticized the Obama rules as too onerous and costly to comply with, but which supporters say have helped prevent a repeat of the accident that killed 11 workers and spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil in 2010.
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    That's good news.

    The only reason Obama enacted those rules was to harm the United States.

    Glad they're gone.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    See more at the link https://www.politico.com/story/2019/...-rules-1404098

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    The Trump administration on Thursday dismantled safety rules for offshore drilling put in place by the Obama administration after the disastrous BP oil spill fouled the Gulf of Mexico nearly a decade ago.

    The rollbacks are a major victory for the oil and gas industry that has criticized the Obama rules as too onerous and costly to comply with, but which supporters say have helped prevent a repeat of the accident that killed 11 workers and spewed more than 200 million gallons of oil in 2010.
    I'm guessing you never knew that the Obama Administration waived a 6-month environmental study so BP could fast track the Deepwater Horizon. That study would very likely have prevented the spill.
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    I am not sure how that counters Trump getting rid of safety rules. LoL

    So let me guess you are saying a study on the environment would have prevented the preventer from blowing out? I am guessing you didnt know Tony Hyward sold his shares a week before the spill. LoL. You are agressive I will give you that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...oil-spill.html Your corporate pom poms are hard at work. Cheerlead on, bash as often as possible, try to crush as often as possible. Well done! If I were a Koch bro, I would give you a grade A gold star!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    I am not sure how that counters Trump getting rid of safety rules. LoL

    So let me guess you are saying a study on the environment would have prevented the preventer from blowing out? I am guessing you didnt know Tony Hyward sold his shares a week before the spill. LoL. You are agressive I will give you that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...oil-spill.html Your corporate pom poms are hard at work. Cheerlead on, bash as often as possible, try to crush as often as possible. Well done! If I were a Koch bro, I would give you a grade A gold star!
    Which safety rules has Trump gotten rid of? Please list them.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Just AnotherPerson View Post
    I am not sure how that counters Trump getting rid of safety rules. LoL

    So let me guess you are saying a study on the environment would have prevented the preventer from blowing out? I am guessing you didnt know Tony Hyward sold his shares a week before the spill. LoL. You are agressive I will give you that. https://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/...oil-spill.html Your corporate pom poms are hard at work. Cheerlead on, bash as often as possible, try to crush as often as possible. Well done! If I were a Koch bro, I would give you a grade A gold star!

    Someone selling their shares really has very little to do with anything other than trying to turn the situation into a pointy-hat conspiracy.

    You likely don't understand that Trump and Obama made their decisions for a similar reason -- to increase our oil output in order to reduce our dependence on foreign oil. You post all manner of fluffy ideology on a daily basis, but you don't learn. You have no clue how the world really works, and you seem unable to comprehend the bottom line in the issues you present.

    I'm guessing your last comment was supposed to be some sort of insult, but I live in Kansas -- home to Koch Industries -- my daughter rides motorcycles with one of the Koch's grandsons, and Koch Industries is one of my clients. So, I'll take that comment as a compliment -- Kansas loves the Kochs. LOL We know all the lies about them are just that -- lies.
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    I'm guessing you never knew that the Obama Administration waived a 6-month environmental study so BP could fast track the Deepwater Horizon. That study would very likely have prevented the spill.
    No, it wouldn't have. Saying it would is ignorant at best.

    A combination of equipment failures and bad decisions by the crew caused it.

    https://www.newscientist.com/article...ulf-oil-spill/


    I'm very impressed that your daughter rides motorcycles with one of the little kochs, though.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexa View Post
    No, it wouldn't have. Saying it would is ignorant at best.

    A combination of equipment failures and bad decisions by the crew caused it.

    https://www.newscientist.com/article...ulf-oil-spill/
    More time allows for more oversight. Thinking it doesn't is ignorant at best.
    I'm very impressed that your daughter rides motorcycles with one of the little kochs, though.

    Very.
    Um-hmmm....sure
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    Quote Originally Posted by FindersKeepers View Post
    More time allows for more oversight. Thinking it doesn't is ignorant at best.


    Um-hmmm....sure
    Environmental studies don't make many decisions on an oil platform, but you're one of those people who's seldom right and never wrong.

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    Quote Originally Posted by alexa View Post
    Environmental studies don't make many decisions on an oil platform, but you're one of those people who's seldom right and never wrong.

    You probably think everyone (except those conducting the environmental study) would be sitting around with their thumbs up their rear ends.

    Thanks for the endorsement that I'm "never wrong," but I wouldn't go that far. Less wrong than you, obviously, but not "never wrong."

    Carry on, dear.
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