BP Oil Spill - Ironclad Idiots, Zero Defects and Where the Fault Actually Lies

Yesterday, I happened to catch a news story on the BP oil leak broadcast from one of France’s teevee stations.  The news story centered on remarks by Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA), Chairman of a House Energy Panel.  The station played a clip of Congressman Ed Markey (D-MA) pontificating to chastened looking oil executives.

If you go and view the viddie of Markey’s pontifications (viddie runs 3:19), you’ll hear Markey state the following (quote is from the beginning of the viddie).

The American people deserve oil safety plans that are ironclad and not boiler plate.

We now know the oil industry, and the government agency tasked with regulating them, determined that there was a zero chance that this kind of undersea disaster could ever happen. (bold by ed.)

Markey’s ascertain that Americans “deserve” ironclad oil safety plans is simply idiocy, and his ascertain is also utopian in nature.  Unless Americans’ minds are so muddled by Obama’s and Congresses’ pronouncements and unrealistics promises, and there are a good percentage of Americans who are under the spell, they fully realize that there are risks associated with any endeavor.  There is no guarantee of “ironclad” safety in anything, and any individual who asserts an ironclad guarantee of safety is simply twisting the philosophy of zero defects championed by Philip Crosby.

The most telling words uttered by Markey, though, are the words in bold, above, as they clearly state where the fault actually lies for the BP oil spill.  BP could not, and would not, have been drilling forty miles offshore without permission of the federal government.  Additionally, as Markey himself admits in his pontification, the federal government’s regulatory agency, without whose permission nothing can happen, gave their full blessing to BP’s drilling, as the federal regulatory agency’s decision is the proverbial place where the buck stops.

Don’t kid yourselves that BP is solely at fault for this leak.

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