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Anger grows along the Gulf Coast at the Obama administration’s pathetic response to the largest oil spill in U.S. history. Winston Groom The Weekly Standard Vol. 15, No. 40 7/5-7/12/2010 Point Clear, Alabama The most breathtaking irony in the whole sorry oil spill saga is that the Obama administration has selected BP—which it continues […] July 4th, 2010 | Tags: BP, Gulf of Mexico, Jones Act, OSHA, Winston Groom | Category: Barack Obama, Environmental Protection Agency, Unions | Comments are closed
Ed Morrissey HotAir.com 6/27/2010 The A-Whale bills itself as the largest open-water oil skimmer in the world, and it’s at least very impressive. Originally an oil and ore tanker, the ship’s owners recently refitted the ship to do exactly the kind of work that the US so desperately needs in the Gulf of Mexico, and […] June 27th, 2010 | Tags: 'A-Whale' skimmer, BP, Gulf of Mexico, Jones Act, Liberia, oil spill, Taiwan | Category: Environment, Federal Government, federal regulations | Comments are closed
Allahpundit HotAir.com 6/21/2010 A quickie but goodie courtesy of The Shark Tank, which wrangled this interview with LeMieux after a meeting of the Florida GOP. I’d be curious to know when, precisely, O told him that we can’t spare an all-hands-on-deck approach with American skimmers — although given the fact that that remains the policy […] June 22nd, 2010 | Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Jones Act, oil spill, Rep. Corrine Brown, Rep. John Mica, Sen. George LeMieux | Category: Barack Obama, Energy, Environment, Florida, Video | Comments are closed
Elections matter. The Djou Family Jim Hoft GatewayPundit 6/19/2010 Republican Congressman Charles Djou (R-Hawaii) called for the repeal of the Jones Act. The Washington Examiner reported: U.S. Rep. Charles Djou is calling on President Barack Obama to waive a 90-year-old law so foreign ships can help respond to the huge oil spill in […] June 19th, 2010 | Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Jones Act, oil spill, Rep. Charles Djou | Category: Congress, Economy, Energy, Hawai'i | Comments are closed
Why Obama turned down foreign ships to clean up the Gulf The Wall Street Journal 6/19/2010 President Obama has repeatedly said his Administration is doing everything in its power to expedite the oil clean-up and mitigate the damage. But in the two weeks immediately after the spill, 13 foreign governments reached out and offered their […] June 19th, 2010 | Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Jones Act, Merchant Marine Act of 1920, oil spill | Category: Barack Obama, State Department, Unions | Comments are closed
Mark Hemingway Washington Examiner 6/11/2010 Incredibly, the Jones Act, an old protectionist law requiring “vessels working in US waters be built in the US and be crewed by US workers” has not been waived in the BP clean-up efforts. Some of the best, most cutting edge oil clean-up crews and technology belong to other countries […] June 13th, 2010 | Tags: Gulf of Mexico, Jones Act, oil spill | Category: Barack Obama, Science/Research/Technology | Comments are closed
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