Cranking Up The Pressure
The public is cranking up the pressure on President Obama to crank up the pressure on British Petroleum. Yesterday, the Obama administration accused British Petroleum of taking risky shortcuts, before the Gulf of Mexico oil rig explosion, that resulted in the busted well, gushing oil into the Gulf of Mexico. See the video.
President Obama demanded a new plan from BP to stop the leak. BP has come up with a new plan that, sounds like so many of its old plans. Eventually, one of these plans may work. Anyway, it is the clean up and the containment that is prime on Mr. Obama's list. He wants BP to put up the money, $20 billion up front in an escrow account to pay for the cleanup and for other expenses of citizens and the government, caused by BP's oil spill. BP wants to talk about it. BP has signaled that it knows the way to the bankruptcy court.
$20 billion is a lot, says BP and her friends in Britain. BP has no friends in America. BP is gathering up a lot of oil, but is leaving most of its polluting crude in the sea. But BP is gathering so many tens of thousands of barrels of oil a day, at a daily rate that grows. BP gathers more and more of tens of thousands barrels a day, proving itself to be a rotten liar, when it continues to claim, everyday that only a modest amount of oil is leaking from its gushing well. Anyway, BP is selling the oil it is gathering from the water. Will it gather $20 billion dollars worth?
Though BP is gathering up so much oil, tens of thousands barrels a day, it is only gathering a portion of what is leaking. So, there will be planty left to reach our beaches.
Yes, again: Get down to your beaches America! Gather up that oil! British Petroleum, so loves America, that it is filling our beaches with free oil.