Coast Guard says boats deployed to curtail spill

Just another high altitude flyover at the taxpayers expense.

What exactly is it they are going to do?

Must be classified. ;]

Unlike Katrina, Obama is attempting good co-ordination with the locals. They'll bring authorization to do things immediately, unlike Bush's flyover.

I wonder if Palin is still going to chant ' drill baby drill ' ?

Kind of late for the government to get involved. This oil spill has been going on for a week and now they get off their buts to do something. Way to go brownie (Obama). The oil is just about to make landfall and with no end in sight. Should have been mobilizing from day one.

No worries, if you like having companies pass on the charges then you can expect to see gas prices sore again and again and again..... Well you get the idea. They will use this type of stuff to pass on the bill to us so they can still buy those yahts they want want or the Stretch limos.

ah yes, the american way - private company making huge profits messes up and the taxpayer has to clean up the mess because of their actions and the amount of collateral damge it causes.

I wonder if this rig encountered some Greenpeace style eco-terrorists.

costs of the defense and recovery will ultimately fall on the industry

Why the 'industry'? BP should be the one held accountable as they leased the rig. If everybody is made to share the pain then what direct incentive do the other people have of making sure their stuff is in order? If BP loses their rear end on this then the others will see the benefit in triple checking their rigs precautions.

I see the drill baby drill mentality is working out real well. Ah yes, the raping and pillaging of the earth is what god intended!

New Orleans is safe, since they aren't really on the Gulf Of Mexico. But, you can bet they are going to say so, in order to receive federal money. Sorta like Katrina. The real threat is to the small towns and villages on the gulf in Louisiana, where Katrina really hit, turned and hit the Mississippi coast.

Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida are also in danger of Louisiana's oil rig.

I wonder if Palin is still going to chant ' drill baby drill ' ?

The new chant is "Spill Baby Spill !"

This is exactly why there was a moratorium on offshore oil drilling. When all the beaches in western Florida close indefinitely, the gulf fisheries all go bankrupt, the Louisiana wildlife refuge looks more like the La Brea tar pits and tourism in the gulf states becomes a distant memory, we can then weigh that loss against the projected 1% that all the domestic offshore drilling could have supplied to our national energy needs.

This spill ( if you can call it that) will make the Exxon Valdez incident look like a spot on the garage floor.

BP will be held responsible, and will do everything they can to escape that responsibility. They will try to get other people and organizations, including the US government, to pay for their responsibility. I believe BP is a British company; the US government has no business picking up their tab.

Remember the refinery explosion, the deadly one down in Texas? That was BP. Remember the busted pipeline in Alaska? That was BP. BP is infamous for shoddy maintenance and poor safety practices. They are NOT too big to fail; if this costs them billions, along with their insurance company, and the British government, and if that drives them to financial failure, I'm OK with that.

As we speak there are teams of lawyers, lobbyists, and politicians working into the night looking for an out for BP. As much as possible they will try to stick Americans with the bill. Keep an eye on your politicians, don't let them screw you as a favor to BP. You can expect they'll try, at least some of them.

We have been lied to by BP, who said, "Trust us, this is manageable," while it was not. In their favor, perhaps they didn't know they couldn't handle it, but held against them is their insistence that no government need get involved - at least until it comes time to pay the bill (privatize the gain, socialize the loss - that's the active tactic.) Thankfully, the Obama administration didn't give them too much rope and stepped in once it became clear that BP was out of their depth, and/or unwilling to face facts.

Every comment here we either political or monetary, each and everyone of us will pay the price for this disaster and it will not be politics or money at stake but the health of this planet, which includes all living things.

Oligarchies Fail

Corporate structure is fundamentally undemecratic. Corporations are managed by small power elites. Corporate structure is classic oligarchy. A CEO and governing board is classic oligarchy, or “You’re fired!”.

Oligarchy systems fail. Witness Enron, AIG, Massey (Safety First) Energy, BP, and on and on. BP is an oligarchy. The bureaucrats and government agencies in charge of BP's safety programs are an oligarchy. Unions are an oligarchy. Three oligarchies failed and massive amounts of oil are breaking onto land in the gulf.

Corporations must benefit from an invention of ancient Greek democracy. The ancient Greeks sortitioned their leadership from the citizenry. This is leadership empowered and appointed by lottery. Sortition “reigns-in” oligarchy and guarantees a heavy dose of unbiased common sense. Sortition is antithesis to oligarchy.

Corporations want government out of their business? Corporations must govern themselves better. How about a guarantee of “common sense” in the business model? Sortitioned leadership is unbiased oversight, corporate revitalization, and a healthy dose of common sense.

Common sense works. Common sense built America. The constitution is an impressively short and common sense document. The constitution is still vital 200 years later.

Corporations install a “second chamber” of governance, as a check and balance, on current management. A chamber of shareholders by weighted ownership, or perhaps of employees, is sortitioned. The chamber is empowered with half the governing influence of the enterprise. The original management chamber is left intact. A two chamber, two approval, congress-like governance is initiated. Of course, board and corporate officers are not part of the sortitioned chamber.

Lawsuits against BP and BP defenders are just more oligarchies playing the justice system. Where does it end? Before BP continues the lengthening US tradition of oligarchy failure, pursuing high risk ventures, political intrigue, and endangering the public, the approval of an upper-management “common sense” sortitioned chamber must be required.

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The chant was once ; "Drill Baby Drill!"

Then it became ; "Spill Baby Spill!"

The Coast Guard said; "Burn Baby Burn!"

Now we should ask all to; "Learn Baby Learn"