"Obviously, there's no way to tell what is causing these symptoms, and BP has no interest in allowing the media to find out. Many of the fishermen working for BP signed contracts that forbid them to talk to the press, and BP is ruling the Gulf area with an iron fist. Even CEO Tony Hayward has joined the fun, and is shouting at random cameramen."
"This is standard practice for BP, according to John Sheffield, the owner of a competing dispersant called Sea Brat 4. Stonewalling the press was a specific provision in his contract with BP."
"The two types of dispersants BP is spraying in the Gulf are banned for use on oil spills in the U.K. As EPA-approved products, BP has been using them in greater quantities than dispersants have ever been used in the history of US oil spills."
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/18/corexit-bp-using-dispersa_n_580799.html
Why would EPA approve such a dangerous chemical? It comes down to one word... lobbying.
Why would BP use a dangerous chemical when other more effective and less hazardous dispersents are available? It comes down to one word... profit.
Corexit is manufactured by the oil industry through Nalco to sell to itself when handling spills caused by the oil industry. In other words, big oil makes additional profit in the clean up of their big oil spills. BP is deeply invested in the production of Corexit. Big oil sits on the board of Nalco, including oil-industry insiders such as the BP Nalco board member of 11 years and the 43 year veteran excutive from Exxon. Follow the money trail further and it ends up on the doorstep of Goldman Sachs through their 2003 4.3 billion dollar purchase of Nalco. (More about Rand Paul's ties to Goldman Sachs through his major Texas 'King of Derivatives" campaign contributor later)
These are the corporations Rand Paul wants to protect, even if he has to summon up the gall to tell us to our face that "accidents happen" when it's been clearly shown that poor decision making, the same quality of decision making that caused a drunken man to crash into that bus near Carrollton, led to the greatest oil spill disaster and the greatest clean up disaster in the history of our nation. These are the entities he wants to protect, not the people of the United States and certainly not the people of Kentucky.
"To date, sales related to these dispersants have not had a material financial impact on our company," said Nalco Chairman and CEO Erik Fyrwald in a press statement. "But it is impossible to predict at this time how long this incident will last or the magnitude of the overall response needed." Some 230,00 additional gallons of dispersant are now available and more may be needed. This week Nalco stock prices rose to their highest level since 2007."
http://thefastertimes.com/earthmatters/2010/05/05/so-whos-making-money-off-this-oil-spill/
Rand Paul is now accusing the press and the public of being far too upset over his civil rights position that it is Constitutionally appropriate for business owners to be able to bar persons from their premises soley on the basis of the color of their skin. His continued whining for us to feel sorry for him and to even feel sorry for BP is starting to grate on our nerves here in Kentucky. Kentuckians take responsibility for our actions seriously as we understand on a deeply personal level what happens when proper decision making and regulations are not in place.
Per his campaign manager, David Adams, with regard to Paul's radical views concerning putting business before human beings, "They just want to keep beating this same dead horse." Rand Paul, through his manager, now flatly refuses to even discuss the matter further, adding yet another nail in the campaign coffin by stating "We're finished talking about that."
Now that news items are surfacing daily such as the Sixty Minutes segment informing us of the Transocean employee who reported pieces of rubber coming up in the returning drilling mud prior to the explosion and was told by his supervisor "dont worry about it", the old news of BP's ten years of lobbying against safety regulations which would have helped prevent this spill to begin with, along with the news of BP's continued lack of transparency and BP's profiteering from the use of a dispersant banned in their own country, Rand Paul surely cannot think Kentuckians are so stupid that we would stand by mute on his command as he now expects and not question his values and his loyalty to ALL of the people of Kentucky. Kentuckians WILL talk about it, Mr. Paul, and so WILL you if you want to be even remotely considered for the job you now seek.
Whether it's you putting the rights of business before the rights of people, or the profits of business before the safety of us all, it WILL be discussed. Refuse to discuss it or continue to whine about the supposed "boot heel" up against the throat of poor lil' BP, the next sound you hear will be the working end of the boots of Kentuckians slapping that Texas jam out from between your toes. Kentucky won't hesitate to kick you to the curb as they kick your political aspirations on behalf of corporations all the way back to Dallas where they belong, and will have rightfully done so.
You may play well in Texas, sir, but you can't play us here in Kentucky. We learned our lessons the hard way.
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