U.S. Oil Policy

The U.S. government and the BP Gulf catastrophe

Perspectives on the BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico.

Where does W. stop and O. start?

One wonders sometimes if regime change in Washington is just an illusion. The BP Gulf of Mexico catastrophe is a case in point. As Obama was making ready to be ‘mad’ at BP it is revealed that the White House colluded with BP to keep the full extent of the disaster from the public by [...]

More information about the BP Gulf of Mexico disaster

BP was exempted by MMS (of sex, drugs and incompetence fame) from the need to conduct environmental reviews of its proposed oil drilling projects in the Gulf.