The Deepwater Horizon oil spill (aka the British Petroleum (BP) oil spill or the Gulf of Mexico oil spill)is a massive, presently ongoing since April 20, 2010, oil spill stemming from a sea floor oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico. The spill started with an oil well blowout on April 20, 2010 which caused a catastrophic explosion on the Deepwater Horizon resulting in the loss of the offshore oil drilling platform about 40 miles South East of the Louisiana coast.
On May 3, 2010 President Obama cancelled the Interior Department’s 2010 Oil Industry Safety Awards luncheon at which British Petroleum was one of three finalists for a federal award program that would honoring offshore oil companies for “outstanding safety and pollution prevention.”
Soap Box Ravings would like to report that he heard his local radio station report at least four times yesterday (05-18-10) that federal inspectors had failed to do their jobs with regard to inspecting and regulating the Deepwater Horizon oil rig. Then the very next sentence was that a senator wanted to increase the regulations applicable to deep water oil drilling rigs.
Soap Box Ravings wonders why if federal employees fail to enforce regulations on the books why more regulations should be written to ignore. It would seem that that Senator and his or her peers would be more effective on another project such as: securing our borders, reducing taxes, repealing Obama's cursed health plan or solving the Social Security/Medicare crisis about to overwhelm the country.
