Friday, June 18, 2010

BP (NYSE:BP): Coast Guard Orders Oil to be Left in Ocean

The Keystone Cops of the water, the U.S. Coast Guard, ordered barges sucking up oil from the BP (NYSE:BP) spill in the Gulf to stop, against the orders of Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal.

"It's the most frustrating thing," Jindal said today in Buras, La. "Literally, yesterday morning we found out that they were halting all of these barges."

The idiotic reason for allowing the oil to permeate the area for a day when it could have been removed? The Keystone Water Cops said they had to confirm whether or not there were life vests located on the boats, as well as fire extinguishers.

Only a bunch of bureaucrats covering their cowardly rear-ends would even make that the priority as measured against the oil staining the waters and environment.

"The Coast Guard came and shut them down," Jindal said. "You got men on the barges in the oil, and they have been told by the Coast Guard, 'Cease and desist. Stop sucking up that oil.'"

Without the authority to overrule the Coast Guard, Jindal had to watch the oil spread across the Louisiana coast while the Keystones made phone calls to see if the life vests and fire extinguishers were on board. It took them over 24 hours for that difficult task of making a phone call, while the oil-extracting barges sat there doing nothing.

Gulf Governors are in agreement that there is absolutely no one in charge of the situation, and the right hand doesn't know what the left hand is doing.

Alabama Governor Bob Riley said he has had problems with the Coast Guard as well, as when important decisions need to be made by them from their command center, other Federal Agencies like the Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service weigh in and things are then stopped in their tracks.

It seems these latter two Federal agencies have been infiltrated with environmentalist, who even attempted to stop the berms being built to stop the oil from devastating the coast of Louisiana.

They will of course need to be investigated for potential crimes committed against the American people as they hinder, or stop in its tracks, the battle to keep the oil from doing more damage and removing it from the Gulf.

The implication is Obama and the Democrats are attempting to placate their special interest groups who supported them, and so at the expense of the Gulf of Mexico and the American people, are allowing them to do whatever they feel like doing, rather than battling to stop the oil spill and clean out the Gulf.

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