BP oil spill: Where is the oil?

[Nbadan]

How are ABC News, Stephonopolis, and now-retired Charles Gibson not on the wing-nut payroll like John Stousell?

[DarrinS]

How are ABC News, Stephonopolis, and now-retired Charles Gibson not on the wing-nut payroll like John Stousell?

Are you going to add Anderson Cooper to your list of "wing-nuts"?

I love his question at about 25 sec. in.

[Mr. Peabody]

And every single one had to wait to get "special permission" to use US ports, sometimes delayed for weeks.

again Chump spins and spins, but always to the left.

I thought Thad Allen said that no one had requested waivers of the Jones Act -

Q-CONFUSION ABOUT THE JONES ACT & WHETHER OR NOT IT IS IMPEDING OPERATIONS - CAN YOU EXPLAIN; AND HAVE THERE BEEN ANY EXPEDITED WAIVERS REQUESTED, IF YOU EVEN, INDEED, NEED THAT?

"I think there's been a lot of confusion about that and I think we posted talking points on a background paper on deepwaterhorizonrespoonse.com or go to our joint information center."

"Basically, if you're going to travel between u.s ports or do coast wise trade, you have to do that on a u.s. flagged vessel. For vessels that are going to be operating offshore, there's no jones act waiver required. So, we're really talking about foreign vessels would be operating inside 3 miles. "We haven't had any need to have those kind of vessels operate in there. Let me differentiate between skimmers. When I say skimmer, I mean, that's a ship with organic capability to recover oil. It's built to do that, versus skimming equipment. That's where you put a boom and some collection equipment, you tow it behind a shrimp boat and you vacuum the oil out. Equipment does not fall under the Jones Act. We need both. The most rare commodity we have right now, we've got pretty much up to speed on boom, but skimmers are our critical mass right now. We need to put those wherever we can get them. And we want to get them from where ever they are available. And to the extent that foreign equipment and skimmers are available, and can be use out there, we have accepted foreign offers of assistance, BP is buying skimming equipment and skimmers from overseas in areas that they normally operate, Mexico, Norway where they have oil operations is where we're getting it from mostly. So, to date nobody has come for a Jones Act waiver. We have expedited procedures to go with customs and border protection which would grant it, I'm willing to do that. It not only relates to skimming equipment but potentially it could relate to the amount of dredges that are available for some of the barrier island construction. But to date, no Jones Act waivers have been requested."


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[RandomGuy]

Yeah, I got the irony of that...

Chump asked you some fair questions.

You didn't answer them.

Why is that?