whoa!! Holy crap! Did our president (gasp) MAKE A DECISION? Oil Help enroute

[darin]

wow...only took this guy two months to make the call.



http://finance.yahoo.com/news/US-accepts-international-apf-4104246595.html?x=0&.v=2

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The United States is accepting help from 12 countries and international organizations in dealing with the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

The State Department said in a statement Tuesday that the U.S. is working out the particulars of the help that's been accepted.

The identities of all 12 countries and international organizations were not immediately announced. One country was cited in the State Department statement -- Japan, which is providing two high-speed skimmers and fire containment boom.

More than 30 countries and international organizations have offered to help with the spill. The State Department hasn't indicated why some offers have been accepted and others have not.

[Monkeybone]

yah... too bad he didn't take the help when they were first offering... you know... like when it happened

[Gaffer]

Accepting help from hezbollah would not be a good thing to make public. It's about time he let the others send aid. The South American countries will want to join in as the oil is interrupting their drug shipments.

[Kathianne]

This catastrophe in the Gulf demonstrates the idiocy of pure idealism or perhaps even more likely, planned destruction:

http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html


Lawrence Solomon, Financial Post · Saturday, Jun. 26, 2010

Some are attuned to the possibility of looming catastrophe and know how to head it off. Others are unprepared for risk and even unable to get their priorities straight when risk turns to reality.

The Dutch fall into the first group. Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill that then appeared to be underway. "Our system can handle 400 cubic metres per hour," Weird Koops, the chairman of Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide, giving each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.

To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn't capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana's marshlands with sand barriers. One Dutch research institute specializing in deltas, coastal areas and rivers, in fact, developed a strategy to begin building 60-mile-long sand dikes within three weeks.

...

In sharp contrast to Dutch preparedness before the fact and the Dutch instinct to dive into action once an emergency becomes apparent, witness the American reaction to the Dutch offer of help. The U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," remarked Visser, despite BP's desire to bring in the Dutch equipment and despite the no-lose nature of the Dutch offer --the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge. ...

Why does neither the U.S. government nor U.S. energy companies have on hand the cleanup technology available in Europe? Ironically, the superior European technology runs afoul of U.S. environmental rules. The voracious Dutch vessels, for example, continuously suck up vast quantities of oily water, extract most of the oil and then spit overboard vast quantities of nearly oil-free water. Nearly oil-free isn't good enough for the U.S. regulators, who have a standard of 15 parts per million -- if water isn't at least 99.9985% pure, it may not be returned to the Gulf of Mexico.

When ships in U.S. waters take in oil-contaminated water, they are forced to store it. As U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, the official in charge of the clean-up operation, explained in a press briefing on June 11, "We have skimmed, to date, about 18 million gallons of oily water--the oil has to be decanted from that [and] our yield is usually somewhere around 10% or 15% on that." In other words, U.S. ships have mostly been removing water from the Gulf, requiring them to make up to 10 times as many trips to storage facilities where they off-load their oil-water mixture, an approach Koops calls "crazy."...

[Insein]

This catastrophe in the Gulf demonstrates the idiocy of pure idealism or perhaps even more likely, planned destruction:

http://www.financialpost.com/Avertible+catastrophe/3203808/story.html

Complete failure of leadership. Shall we expect anything less when they start running our healthcare?

[Kathianne]

Complete failure of leadership. Shall we expect anything less when they start running our healthcare?

That I know is deliberate. No possible conspiracy there.

[Sweetchuck]

I'm beginning to believe Rush when he suggests it's in BO's agenda's best interest to prolong this disaster.