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6/23/2010

BP’s Cleanup Mistake? Relying on Government Models

Filed under: Government — DRJ @ 7:20 pm



[Guest post by DRJ]

The Wall Street Journal reports BP and other offshore oill companies relied on government data when planning how to respond to an oil spill — models that proved to be hopelessly wrong:

“BP PLC and other big oil companies based their plans for responding to a big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico on U.S. government projections that gave very low odds of oil hitting shore, even in the case of a spill much larger than the current one.”

President Obama has vowed to make BP pay. Perhaps he should also apologize … or at least vow to stop putting lawyers in charge of science.

MORE: Judge Andrew Napolitano explains it to a skeptical (and, as usual, overly emotional) Shep Smith.

— DRJ

7 Responses to “BP’s Cleanup Mistake? Relying on Government Models”

  1. This kind of fits with the topic of government fecklessness. Apparently, the dirty little socialist has no intention of actually trying to make this fiasco anything other than a blatantly political and loaded witch-hunt.

    JD (23a165)

  2. This information is very interesting.

    MD in Philly (5a98ff)

  3. The lack of honesty and leadership exhibited by this inept, out-of-his-element fellow and his allies in Congress will haunt America for decades.

    Make a change on November 2, 2010.

    GeneralMalaise (c2b11b)

  4. Government models cannot be trusted? Utter nonsense. Look at the Global Warming model–absolute accuracy….

    Dr. James Hansen (bbd5ee)

  5. > or at least vow to stop putting lawyers in charge of science.

    Oh, he plans to.

    He figures we’d be much better with GW witch doctors in charge of science.

    Isn’t that what his choices for science advisers indicates?

    IgotBupkis, President, United Anarchist Society (79d71d)

  6. “… or at least vow to stop putting lawyers in charge of science.”

    Not gonna happen with President Obama in office. In the liberal playbook lawyers can do no wrong, unless they are conservative.

    tyree (63c76f)

  7. Why wouldn’t everybody be concerned about saving the walruses in the Gulf of Mexico and mandate the drillers address that in their contingency plans? Makes sense to me.

    You cannot make crap like this up.

    daleyrocks (1d0d98)


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