Obama's Gulf Oil Spill Commission and the Missing Experts

American Thinker ^ | 23 June 2010 | Robert Eugene Simmons Jr

[K-oneTexas]

Instead of an oil spill commission staffed with experts, as promised in his Oval Office address, the president has announced a panel with membership that reads like a Who's Who of radical environmentalism. Former Senator Graham of Florida, for example, has consistently pushed for a ban on oil drilling, and Frances Beinecke of the National Resources Defense Council has argued for the global warming agenda -- including linking "global poverty" to global warming, an argument used at the Copenhagen conference to support reparations to be paid to nations such as Robert Mugabe's Zimbabwe for our supposed global crimes.

In fact, if you peruse the names of the council members, there isn't a single expert in oil drilling, oil platform rigs, or petroleum engineering. The panel's membership doesn't even include a single oil drilling company executive, or even a field engineer. In fact, the only technical-minded person on the commission at all is Cherry Murray, Dean of Harvard's Engineering School. Murray has had a long and distinguished academic career at all of the "right" schools, but she has absolutely nothing in her resume to indicate that she has the slightest knowledge about petroleum exploration. When it comes to academics, there isn't even one professor that specializes in petroleum exploration despite the plethora of possible names that could be drawn from institutions such as the prestigious Colorado School of Mines.

In addition to the shocking lack of engineering and petroleum drilling experience on the panel, there isn't a single person with experience in investigation or forensic science. When we consider that the actual Deepwater Horizon rig is at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, we might expect to see an expert in deepwater salvage on the commission, but that expertise is also lacking.

In fact, the only thing this council is qualified to do is to put forth an alternative energy policy as a "solution" to oil drilling in general. Although that outcome would certainly please Obama and the Democrats looking for political cover to pass "Cap and Trade," the panel wouldn't be even remotely qualified to "offer recommendations on what additional safety and environmental standards we need to put in place."

What the commission should be charged with is finding answers, not providing political cover for the environmentalist agenda. Regardless of what you believe about global warming, there are more pressing questions that need to be answered. We need to know what exactly happened on the rig to cause the explosion. If faulty equipment or procedures were at fault, we need to find out how that equipment got past testing and who authorized its installation. We need to find out why the safety regulations were waived on the BP platform and who waived them. In addition, we need to find out why the fire was put out on the rig rather than allowing the oil to burn off. And who had the bright idea to spray several thousand gallons of water at a floating, burning ship, thus sinking it to the bottom of the gulf and snapping the riser pipe it was connected to?

Not the least of the questions that need to be answered is the nature of the money trail in relation to this disaster. We need to find out what the connection is between George Soros and Tony Podesta is in relation to the disaster. Soros stands to make billions from the offshore drilling ban, and Tony Podesta is the main lobbyist for BP and brother to John Podesta at Soros' Center for American Progress. In every other investigation, the police will follow the money, but in this case, it is being brushed off and ignored. Were safety regulations and quality slowly eroded to create a ticking time bomb in the Gulf? All of these questions should be put to the test and answered.

Finally, we need to know why it is that these questions are not being investigated and answered. When terrorists slammed two planes into the World Trade Center, the government left no stone unturned to find out the causes of the disaster. However, when the lives of millions in the Gulf are being turned upside-down by the biggest ecological disaster of our time, the government isn't interested in answers, but only politics?

The eleven who lost their lives on the rig are not being granted the most basic justice given to any worker killed on a job in the USA. Their names and faces are being coated with oil and politics. If the Obama administration had any sense of ethical responsibility, the commission would be staffed with experts and investigators looking for answers, not environmentalists looking to impose their agenda on the American people.

[DallasDeb]

When you read this, doesn’t it make you think the disaster was all planned as a means to the Cap/Trade/Climate Change end?

[Rapscallion]

Like all the poker players from Chicago the only good game is using their stacked deck.

[ilovesarah2012]

Experts? We don’t need no stinkin’ experts!

[downtownconservative]

When an Airliner goes down, the FAA and NTSB are all over it, dissecting the accident down to the most minute detail. These investigative boards are populated by leading experts in the field.

This is like investigating a plane crash with folks from the Juliard School of the Arts.

[Smokin' Joe]

When you read this, doesn’t it make you think the disaster was all planned as a means to the Cap/Trade/Climate Change end?

There are two disasters in play here. One involves the blowout, fire, sinking of the rig, the wild well and eleven dead.

The other, far more serious and preventable disaster, is the handling of the above by the Federal agencies which seem to have made the worst possible decisions, and then belatedly.

No number of letters after your name is a substitute for having been in the industry where the rubber meets the road, and although some might be impressed by the credentials of the panel of 'experts', I'd wager not one of them could tell a crown block from a kelly valve.

[downtownconservative]

Obama Knew

Obama knew
sent the issue for review
was playing golf with number two
when the oil well blew

Deep Water was causing cracks
giving BP drillers panic attacks
reported it to DC
But the prez was on the tee

Obama knew
Sent the issue for review
Was playin golf with number two
As Bobby Jindal tried to stop the goo

Holland offered help
skimmers to get the oil out
But Interior didn’t give a hoot
While the prez had hoops to shoot

Obama knew
Sent the issue for review
Was playin golf with number two
And the disaster grew and grew

Jindal tried to protect the beach
Keep the sludge a distant reach
but enviro-quacks were the winners
While the White House threw state dinners

Obama knew
sent the issue for review
was playin golf with number two
as the Gulf turns into crude oil stew

BP says they’re really sorry
Do everything they can to get er done
But certain things still make us worry
The prez just left again on Air Force One

Obama knew
Sent the issue for review
Was playin golf with number two
New Oleans serves up crude fondue
executive leadership is long-overdue
Our eonomy is in deep doodoo
The Obama’s are at the Pas De Deux

[Retain Mike]

I was amused when the 9-11 commission was mentioned. Six out of ten members were lawyers. There were no emeritus members who had careers in law enforcement or intelligence. John Lehman was the only member who had any remotely relevant experience. He was Reagan’s Secretary of the Navy. He committed the sin of naming the enemy as Wahhabi Jihadism. Nothing has changed as far as I am concerned. This will just be a way to set up straw men and bury government responsibility.

[VRW Conspirator]

Everything is political with these statists. Agenda before everything.

[ridesthemiles]

Is NObama going to start flying in Air Forse One—the first ELECTRIC plane?

[ridesthemiles]

EXPERTS !!!

SURE—these are experts in shutting down AMerica....nothing else.

One thing about all the discontent NObama is fomenting: There are going to be alot of coat tails going down with NObama in November.

[downtownconservative]

First, they’ll retrofit AF One to biofuels, where it costs more money and energy to produce bio-kerosene than an equal amount of petro-based fuel. But they’ll widely tout the change as “Green”. Idiots...they’re all idiots.

[Stand Watch Listen]

Instead of an oil spill commission staffed with experts, as promised in his Oval Office address, the president has announced a panel with membership that reads like a Who's Who of radical environmentalism........

In fact, if you peruse the names of the council members, there isn't a single expert in oil drilling, oil platform rigs, or petroleum engineering. The panel's membership doesn't even include a single oil drilling company executive, or even a field engineer. In fact, the only technical-minded person on the commission at all is Cherry Murray, Dean of Harvard's Engineering School.
Murray has had a long and distinguished academic career at all of the "right" schools, but she has absolutely nothing in her resume to indicate that she has the slightest knowledge about petroleum exploration..........

In addition to the shocking lack of engineering and petroleum drilling experience on the panel, there isn't a single person with experience in investigation or forensic science........

," the panel wouldn't be even remotely qualified to "offer recommendations on what additional safety and environmental standards we need to put in place........

We need to find out what the connection is between George Soros and Tony Podesta is in relation to the disaster. Soros stands to make billions from the offshore drilling ban, and Tony Podesta is the main lobbyist for BP and brother to John Podesta at Soros' Center for American Progress. In every other investigation, the police will follow the money, but in this case, it is being brushed off and ignored........

[Salvation]

Can we start saying (about the oil spill mess)

 

Obama's fault!

 

????????

[Candor7]

This bunch of fascist goof balls have one goal in mind.

Getting at the money oil companies have to fund government programs.

BP is #1 on the list.

They are basking in the glory of this environmental disaster. Allah has been kind! These no names have become "important people", we dwell on their every word , every raised eyebrow and nuanced grin. ( sarc.)They should be frog marched into the nearest federal pen as frauds unqualified for their positions.

These fascist goofballs come NOT to save Rome but to "nationalize" her!

How much longer will the "plebs" take this crap before finding and publishing Barry Soetoro's original birth certificate??

Enquiring geneologists want to know!