The Wall Street Journal reported that BP has plead guilty to criminal charges for the Deepwater Horizon disaster and will pay $4.5 billion in fines and restitution. Under the agreement, BP said it will plead guilty to 11 felony counts…
I have whiplash from the constant shaking of my head over the policies and procedures of our current administration. From protecting our borders with beanbags, to giving the first permit after the disaster caused by BP to a company co-owned…
This is absolutely maddening. Thanks to the Obama administration’s permatorium on drilling, dozens of rigs are pulling up stakes and leaving for good. They’re taking well paying American jobs with them. Some of the 30-plus deepwater rigs that were in…
I’m sorry to have to report this. Last month I sat in on a conference call with Thomas Clements, whose small business was devastated by President Obama’s oil drilling ban. At the time, Mr. Clements and his wife were finding a…
Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi is really working hard to bring down her favorability ratings. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s negative ratings have hit an all-time high in the new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll. A full 50 percent of…
A reader directed me to Big Oil: Corporate Welfare Queen Number One. Blue Gal on the liberal blog Crooks and Liars linked to Jim Hightower’s piece Big Oil’s Gusher of Subsidies. It appears what these two liberal bloggers are talking…
According to Pravda The Washington Post, telling the truth is now partisan. According to several of McKelway’s colleagues, the newsman’s reporting may have lapsed into partisan territory when he commented live on the air about the oil industry’s influence in…
Harry Reid was whining earlier about not being able to put the final nail in the coffin of the American economy. Politico: Both sides blamed the deadlock on partisan politics. “It’s a sad day when you can’t find a handful…
Reader Bill emailed: I haven’t heard anything about this on the news or online but it is an obvious huge jobs killer and will force more US companies out. Please help link to this! The Administration plans to change existing…
At least for now. Say a prayer that it holds and the pressure doesn’t create a new leak. AP: A tightly fitted cap was successfully keeping oil from gushing into the Gulf of Mexico for the first time in three…
Have you heard that BP was told to halt testing on the new cap they’re trying to use to finally plug up the gushing oil well in the Gulf? Why? What are they waiting for? Could it be the bill…
Oil has been spewing into the Gulf of Mexico for 70 days. The well still isn’t plugged. A hurricane is headed toward the Gulf, complicating the clean up efforts, which were already complicated by the federal government’s refusal to accept…
This is getting so old. Day after day we hear of the resources that aren’t being used to clean the oil out of the Gulf of Mexico before it reaches shore. The latest is a Taiwanese vessel called the A-Whale.…
The Wall Street Journal reported that BP’s spill response plans were based on outdated government models. To make things worse, they were required to base their plans on those models. BP PLC and other big oil companies based their plans…
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