Pundits want Obama to get mad over the oil spill? This is how Obama does mad.
Oil Spill
Quotes: Oil Spill Gushing 100,000 Barrels a Day?
“In the data I’ve seen, there’s nothing inconsistent with BP’s worst case scenario,”
— IRA LIEFER, associate researcher at the Marine Science Institute of the University of California, Santa Barbara and a member of U.S. …
BP’s Oil Spill Cost: $1.25 Billion (So Far)
We’re better learning the cost behind BP CEO Tony Hayward’s Knute Rockne-style declaration that his company will “spend whatever it takes” to turn around the gushing black hole that is the Deepwater Horizon oil disaster.
Doomsday Scenario: Could the Oil Spill Reach Europe?
Experts seem confident that the oil spill will hit Florida, and then proceed to race up East Coast. But then what? (via Discovery)
Mole: Is BP Misleading the Country?
Apparently there’s a mole working for BP – an inside source that has been talking to Mother Jones about how the public story of the ongoing oil spill in the Gulf has routinely differed from the actual situation on the ground.
Quotes: Ron Paul on Obama Oil Spill Criticism
“I just don’t see the justification for coming down hard on the president. … [It] represents the idea that the American people think the president is everything to everybody, that he should fix an oil leak.”
— REP. RON PAUL, …
Is the East Coast in for an Oil-Filled Summer?
Yes, according to one scenario released by the National Center for Atmospheric Research. Depressing video inside.
Oil Spill Cap: A Game of Wait and See
While BP successfully capped its undersea gusher in the Gulf on Thursday, company and government officials warned it will take time to see if the cap will help staunch the flow.
Sarah Palin’s Facebook Oil Spill Rant
That’s right you tree-hugging, lettuce munching environmentalists, the 15,000 barrels of oil sputzing into the Gulf of Mexico every day is your fault!
BP Declines James Cameron’s Help; Titanic Mistake?
Of all the people who have sprung into action to aid BP with the ongoing crisis in the Gulf, who would have guessed that James Cameron would be dismissed by the company outright?
Will the U.S. Nuke the Oil Spill? Don’t Bet On It
It could be an explosive way to end the oil spill, but no one in the U.S. government is ready to break out the nukes.
Is Oil in the Gulf a Naturally Occurring Phenomenon?
Scientists remind us that not all the oil floating around in the Gulf is from an industrial accident. Just most of it.