Now Who's To Blame?

Time for input on the oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. Congress is holding hearings looking to assign blame, Florida Governor Charlie Crist is trying to enact legislation to permanently ban drilling off the Florida coast, (something that's not happening), and the enviro-nuts are using the emotions of the moment to stir up anti-drilling sentiment. It's time for a sane voice to rise above the crowd, so here I go!

First of all Congress doesn't know an oil rig from a natural gas platform. They have no concept of what's involved in drilling for fossil fuels, nor is it their job to. So what exactly do they bring to the table while investigating this disaster? Well, truthfully they parrot questions someone else fed to them, not knowing if they are getting truthful answers. It makes for great TV and campaign ad sound bytes but as far as solving anything, that's not going to happen.

Now to the Florida Governor Charlie Crist, grrrrrr. Charlie, do you ban airplanes when there is a crash? Is that a solution to solving a rarely occurring problem? I've live in Florida most of my life, I've driven vessels through the oil fields, it's a beautiful sight, surrounded by pristine waters. For the better than 30 years I've been here there has not been a drop spilled, even through massive natural disasters, (hurricanes,etc.). So I think rational people can agree, this is an anomaly. Using the emotion of a disaster to promote your failing political career is despicable. Your slowly peeling back the skin of your progressive agenda, concealed by the faux conservative republican label. Oh and just so you know, when you refer to yourself as a conservative, don't use Teddy Roosevelt as an example you admire, he was one of the original progressive republican chameleons. It was extremely telling, either you don't know your history, or your a cloaked liberal who just exposed himself. I'm betting on the latter.

Now to solve this debacle. Like I pointed out before, you don't ban flying when there is a plane crash. You send in the experts, (that's not you Congress), to check that the measures put in place to insure this wouldn't happened were followed. We created a division just for this purpose, perhaps they should do their job and inspect environmental concerns! This agency is aptly named, The Environmental Protection Agency, Their job description is hidden within the title of the entity. Now if the EPA had been inspecting oil rigs for hazzards and doing it's job as depicted in their name, this may not have happened. When was the last time an EPA inspector checked to see if the valves and other equipment designed to prevent the explosion were in place and functioning? That's the first and most important question to be asked. Maybe if the EPA wasn't so involved in promoting it's own agenda, forwarding edicts to be placed into law as if they were a legislative body, they'd have time to "protect" the environment.

OSHA is also responsible for the conditions on the rig. Did anyone haul them into Congress for questioning? Not that I heard, we pay good tax money to these divisions to oversee the safety of workers and environment, it wasn't done.......

God Bless!
Capt. Bill