Mitch Landrieu predicts ugly fight for resources to contain oil

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With oil from BP's gushing well in the Gulf of Mexico creeping toward Mississippi, Alabama and Florida, New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu said Thursday that he expects tensions to rise as local officials vie for limited resources to protect their fragile coastlines.

"It's going to be a very uncomfortable discussion that's going to be held over the next couple of months, should they not be able to cap this well, which is why capping the well is the most critical and important thing," he said.

Landrieu said the federal command structure - with Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen charged with parceling out absorbent boom, skimmers and other resources - bears a marked contrast with chaotic efforts after Hurricane Katrina to secure federal aid.

"But that doesn't take away the hard fact that people are going to get and some people are not going to get, and so you see this now with the governors of Alabama, Mississippi and Florida wanting to protect their constituents saying, 'I need the limited resources,'" Landrieu said.

Decrying BP's failure so far to quell the flow of oil and the government's shortage of materials to contain it, Landrieu said the hard lessons of Katrina have not been heeded.

"The bigger question is: Why do we have limited resources?" he said. "Is this nation really capable of doing big things? We're seeing once again that there are some catastrophic events that we are not, as a nation, fully prepared (for), or as a private industry.

"This is not a surprise to us in Louisiana," the mayor said. "We told people after Katrina and Rita that we are the canary in the coal mine and that there are some things that you have to do better. And obviously now we have another catastrophic event that BP was not prepared for. We're very frustrated and angry about it."
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Why do they have limited resources??

Why isn't BP scouring the Earth and buying anything that isn't available in the US if it's needed?? Why isn't the government??

Why??

[sandnsea]

1. No Government States - like gulf states

won't pay the taxes for government to be prepared. They insist corporations can do the job better.

And then when, time after time, corporations don't, they blame the government - no wait, they blame the most convenient Democrat. Blanco after Katrina and Obama now.

And the worst part is that Democrats like Landrieu won't acknowledge his or his sister's political complicity in the mess.

[Are_grits_groceries]

2. So, the govenment should just stay out of it?

They shouldn't make sure that the corporations do have the material on hand?? They should just wait until there is a disaster like this and then check??

Were any of them, BP and the government, looking for ways and places too obtain enough supplies after it was apparent that the oil gusher was huge?? Did they just hope the fixes would work??

This will screw all of us in some way. The Gulf feels the immediate and most severe pain, but the entire country is going to be paying for this for a long, long time.

[sandnsea]

3. Not remotely what I said

The complete opposite of what I said. I won't explain it because people have got to quit reading their own agenda into other people's words.