BP: Okay? Now what?

Oil companies, that lease our land to drill in the sea, are required in every move they make for their business, to take precautions to not spoil the wildlife or hurt the people.

This oil, IS OUR OIL, and we lease the land to allow these companies to make billions and trillions off of US,

the citizen who owns the oil...

and part of us allowing them to take our oil and make huge amounts of profits off of it, is their fiduciary responsibility to us, and our livelihood and that of Nature, not to spoil such with their actions of withdrawing the profitable oil.

I heard this on C-span yesterday.
 
Oil companies, that lease our land to drill in the sea, are required in every move they make for their business, to take precautions to not spoil the wildlife or hurt the people.

This oil, IS OUR OIL, and we lease the land to allow these companies to make billions and trillions off of US,

the citizen who owns the oil...

and part of us allowing them to take our oil and make huge amounts of profits off of it, is their fiduciary responsibility to us, and our livelihood and that of Nature, not to spoil such with their actions of withdrawing the profitable oil.

I heard this on C-span yesterday.
So.... you want to form a government oil company to get the profits from the oil then? Like France, Indonesia, Brazil, Mexico, Venezuela, Cuba and Russia? What merry little socialists we could be then since we could undercut all real free market companies due to tax subsidies and drive all private oil industry away.

How's that serve us better as a nation? All government oil companies are replete with the same incompetence, waste, fraud and unsafe practices that is a hallmark of almost every government program in existence because thy don't have to worry about the watchdog ever bothering them.
 
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Oil companies, that lease our land to drill in the sea, are required in every move they make for their business, to take precautions to not spoil the wildlife or hurt the people.

This oil, IS OUR OIL, and we lease the land to allow these companies to make billions and trillions off of US,

the citizen who owns the oil...

and part of us allowing them to take our oil and make huge amounts of profits off of it, is their fiduciary responsibility to us, and our livelihood and that of Nature, not to spoil such with their actions of withdrawing the profitable oil.

I heard this on C-span yesterday.

We do lease the "land" (the Outer Continental Shelf).

And the Government makes BILLION$ from those leases and royalties.

And the Government also charges oil companies to INSPECT offshore rigs!

And MMS has a budget of $6.3 million, a fraction of what is budgeted to run Salazar's Office, to study oil spill prevention.

So, after thep pay BILLION$ in leasing fees, Oil Companies are astonished to find that next to nothing has been spent planning for a spill.

As always, the Feds want their cake, and eat it too, and you are willing to let them get away with it.
 

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