Posted on 06/15/2010 2:02:35 PM PDT by kcvl
Members of Congress chastised the largest oil companies Tuesday, accusing them of being no better prepared than BP to avert an environmental catastrophe.
As the oil executives testified at a House hearing, Rep. Joseph Cao said: "In the Asian culture, we do things differently," Cao said. "During the samurai days, we'd just give you a knife, and ask you to commit hari-kari."
As the oil executives testified at a House hearing, Rep. Henry Waxman asserted that the companies' spill response plans amounted to "paper exercises" that mirrored BP's failed plan. Their strategies to plug a spill deep beneath the sea are the same failed strategies that have stymied BP, the California Democrat said.
The other companies "are no better prepared to deal with a major oil spill than was BP," said Waxman, setting the tone for a tense hearing.
But the executives sought to distance themselves from BP, telling lawmakers they would not have drilled the Deepwater Horizon well in the same way as the British company. They suggested some of BP's design decisions and actions may have jeopardized well integrity.
One lawmaker after another expressed frustration at BP's inability to stop oil gushing from its stricken well as the chief executives representing ExxonMobil, Chevron, ConocoPhillips and Shell - as well as BPAmerica - sat shoulder to shoulder at the witness table.
Cao. The only RINO to vote Yes on Obamacare, when it first came up last Fall. Big pro-lifer, and pro-suicide? Go back to Vietnam if you like Hari-Kari so much.
I’m glad he didn’t become a priest. We have enough socialist priests in this country already.
For good or bad, I'd give Cao props for listening to his constituents. If more Congress-critters would do that, the whole nObama-care fiasco would have gone down in flames to begin with.
I wish these oil company execs would appoint their own commission to study what went wrong and announce the loss in jobs and wages due to the idiotic premature shut down of other rigs in the gulf.
I think it's time for the oil companies to become more assertive...or we're all going to be riding horses or bicycles ...thanks to Cap and Trade Barry !
Cao voted for the Porkulus.
No Republican voted for Obamacare.
Sure, the one guy who actually listened to his constituents, just happened to vote with the Democrats. Big surprise. He’s a RINO, who should have run as a Democrat, but of course, if he did that he would not have won an election. Sometimes, constituents are wrong. I guess he is just representing his constituents when he advocates suicide, or at least trying to sound like he’s a big man. I knew the context before I wrote the comment.
He voted for Obamacare during the first House vote last Fall. Look it up.
I swear I went to sleep back in 2008 and woke up in Bizarro World.
Same here, my friend. I cant believe the world we live in today.
The women got jigai?
...wit it. Aight?
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