Statements about Oil Spill
"I've issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling."
"Right now every single one of the (oil) companies here today and dozens of others are drilling for free in the Gulf of Mexico on leases that will cost American taxpayers more than $50 billion in lost royalties."
"While Exxon Mobil has 40 pages on its media response strategy, its plan for resource protection is only five pages long and its plan for oil removal is just nine pages long."
The Obama administration "has been constrained by the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, which basically gives the responsible party the lead role in trying to not only fix the problem, but contain the problem."
"A major part" of the climate change bill sponsored by Sens. John Kerry and Joe Lieberman "was essentially written by BP."
The American Power Act "would cut our dependence on oil in half."
"The Interior Department has only 30 days to review an exploration plan submitted by an oil company. That leaves no time for the appropriate environmental review. The result is, they are continually waived."
The federal government only ordered BP to pay "to do one of those six segments" of sand barriers for Louisiana.
Halliburton gave Dick Cheney a $34 million payout when he left the company to join the presidential ticket.
"Louisiana Sen. Mary Landrieu received almost $1.8 million from BP over the last decade."
"In the last 10 years we've only had 7,000 barrels of oil spilled in the Gulf ... not counting hurricanes. This well is spewing that amount every day and a half."
Louisiana gets "not one single penny" from Gulf Coast offshore oil revenues.
"At the moment, energy companies spend 0.25 percent on R&D."
A letter from BP to the Minerals Management Service "actually recommends improvements and specific recommendations around safety regulations should they choose to change them."
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