Worth Repeating

Here are two paragraphs from an article in the Wall Street Journal about why the Obama Administration is causing the clean up in the Gulf to go so poorly and slowly.

"First, the Environmental Protection Agency can relax restrictions on the amount of oil in discharged water, currently limited to 15 parts per million. In normal times, this rule sensibly controls the amount of pollution that can be added to relatively clean ocean water. But this is not a normal time.

Various skimmers and tankers (some of them very large) are available that could eliminate most of the oil from seawater, discharging the mostly clean water while storing the oil onboard. While this would clean vast amounts of water efficiently, the EPA is unwilling to grant a temporary waiver of its regulations."

So here we are two and a half months after the disaster with news that Miami and the East Coast of Florida will be fouled next and the stupid fools in the adminsitration have not yet figured out that removing 99% of the oil from the water is a big improvement over keeping their ragulations in place and removing much less. someone with half a brain (if they exist) in the Obama Administration has to step up and get this regulation waived. There are already ships in the Gulf or on their way which could remove almost all of the new oil that gushes out daily. They cannot act without approval from Washington, however.

Of all the things that Obama has ruined, I cannot forgive him for ruining the environment in the Gulf. He and his administration have turned a disaster that could have been contained into one that will have an impact for decades. I cannot understand why there is not more outcry over this.