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<blockquote data-quote="tonyexpress" data-source="post: 745090" data-attributes="member: 1940"><p>Have you read this thread? Why hasn't the President waived the Jones act? There have been many suggestions as to how this could've been handled better by the government and yet it's still being handled poorly! </p><p> </p><p>Did BP ever say they would not pay or work on cleaning up this mess? It is in their best interest to do so, thousands of people, employees, shareholders etc. rely on them to be successful...If BP goes out of bus who's gonna pay? BP needs to take responsibility to see this through and plug it up and clean it up, period.</p><p> </p><p>Do you think the over 10,000 independent station owners deserve to lose their businesses because of short sided thinking by some with their push to boycott their stations?</p><p> </p><p>This part of the Country survives on the oil business...There is plenty of disgust with BP and there is even more with the governments botched handling of this.</p><p> </p><p>Oh, and I've yet to hear any reason why Obama has not waived the Jones! This should've been done when it was offered two frigging months ago!</p><p> </p><p>According to <a href="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/06/us_not_accepting_foreign_help_on_oil_spill" target="_blank"><span style="color: #483d8b">ForeignPolicy.com</span></a>, within two weeks of the rig explosion the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and even the United Nations offered assistance. The response of the Obama State Department:</p><p>“While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future.”</p><p> </p><p>Similarly, <a href="http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=542R5JNH&amp;word=jones+act%29" target="_blank"><span style="color: #483d8b">De Standaard</span></a>, a Dutch news site, reports that <strong>Belgian and Dutch dredgers possess technology to combat the gigantic spill in the Gulf.</strong> Two Belgian companies, DEME and De Nul, and their Dutch competitors are set up to handle the task in part because construction of ships required to undertake a large-scale cleanup would cost twice as much to build in the U.S. </p><p> </p><p>Written into the Jones Act are provisions that allow for waivers in cases of national emergency or strategic interest. <strong>Even President Bush</strong>, in his less-than-stellar response to Hurricane Katrina, did not hesitate to waive the Jones Act in order speed up the distribution of oil and gasoline to areas where pipeline transmission systems were damaged or destroyed.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=6567" target="_blank">President Obama and the Jones act</a></p><p> </p><p> </p><p>Yet the Obama administration continues to floor flop and show no leadership on this issue. You'd of thought that when Obama went on his apology tour telling everyone how sorry he was that Bush created hate with the rest of the world that he would've used this oil spill disaster as an opportunity to welcome their help and show the world that we can work together to get this done...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="tonyexpress, post: 745090, member: 1940"] Have you read this thread? Why hasn't the President waived the Jones act? There have been many suggestions as to how this could've been handled better by the government and yet it's still being handled poorly! Did BP ever say they would not pay or work on cleaning up this mess? It is in their best interest to do so, thousands of people, employees, shareholders etc. rely on them to be successful...If BP goes out of bus who's gonna pay? BP needs to take responsibility to see this through and plug it up and clean it up, period. Do you think the over 10,000 independent station owners deserve to lose their businesses because of short sided thinking by some with their push to boycott their stations? This part of the Country survives on the oil business...There is plenty of disgust with BP and there is even more with the governments botched handling of this. Oh, and I've yet to hear any reason why Obama has not waived the Jones! This should've been done when it was offered two frigging months ago! According to [URL="http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2010/05/06/us_not_accepting_foreign_help_on_oil_spill"][COLOR=#483d8b]ForeignPolicy.com[/COLOR][/URL], within two weeks of the rig explosion the governments of Canada, Croatia, France, Germany, Ireland, Mexico, the Netherlands, Norway, Romania, Republic of Korea, Spain, Sweden, the United Kingdom and even the United Nations offered assistance. The response of the Obama State Department: “While there is no need right now that the U.S. cannot meet, the U.S. Coast Guard is assessing these offers of assistance to see if there will be something which we will need in the near future.” Similarly, [URL="http://www.standaard.be/artikel/detail.aspx?artikelid=542R5JNH&word=jones+act%29"][COLOR=#483d8b]De Standaard[/COLOR][/URL], a Dutch news site, reports that [B]Belgian and Dutch dredgers possess technology to combat the gigantic spill in the Gulf.[/B] Two Belgian companies, DEME and De Nul, and their Dutch competitors are set up to handle the task in part because construction of ships required to undertake a large-scale cleanup would cost twice as much to build in the U.S. Written into the Jones Act are provisions that allow for waivers in cases of national emergency or strategic interest. [B]Even President Bush[/B], in his less-than-stellar response to Hurricane Katrina, did not hesitate to waive the Jones Act in order speed up the distribution of oil and gasoline to areas where pipeline transmission systems were damaged or destroyed. [URL="http://www.independent.org/blog/?p=6567"]President Obama and the Jones act[/URL] Yet the Obama administration continues to floor flop and show no leadership on this issue. You'd of thought that when Obama went on his apology tour telling everyone how sorry he was that Bush created hate with the rest of the world that he would've used this oil spill disaster as an opportunity to welcome their help and show the world that we can work together to get this done... [/QUOTE]
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