Media making it clear: America needs the oil industry

[ProSense]

NYT: With Drilling Stopped, Losses Could Multiply

NPR: La. Workers Fear Job Losses With Drilling Stopped

CNN: Ground zero for oil disaster suffers double whammy from moratorium

LA Local: Oil support companies ask president to keep drilling offshore

Even Senator Schumer is taking advice from Senator Cornyn: Schumer: Dems to Aim Low on Climate and Energy

I'm sure in a couple of years Schumer will express his regrets as he did on the Alito filibuster.

Mother Jones on the reports: Could BP Derail Economic Recovery?

Not only is BP's 49-day-old oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico the worst in US history, its after-effects—especially the moratorium on offshore drilling instituted by President Obama in May—could lead to a crippling economic disaster in the Gulf Coast region, if not the country. In a worst-case scenario, if the spill continues to shut down local industry deep into this fall, experts in the Gulf coast region say the Deepwater Horizon calamity could pave the way for a double-dip recession.

Summary: Screw the catastrophic environmental and economical consequences, leave the oil industry alone.

[ProSense]

1. No comment? n/t

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. The Grand Oil Party and their beloveds, the oil soaked media are squealing

they just can't part with their beautiful oil

[ljm2002]

3. It's disgraceful...

...the way the media and our lawmakers are tippy-toeing around the core environmental issues as this catastrophe unfolds.

They never address why BP was allowed to give the finger to the EPA on Corexit.

They never address why BP is allowed to use dispersants in the first place, since the massive amounts used are unprecedented so the effects are unknown.

In the meantime they insist on all the usual approvals, etc. when someone wants to do something like build a sand berm.

Also in the meantime BP is "thinking about" but not actually using Costner's machine, nor have they called on tankers (their own or those of other companies) who could be sucking up oily water right now.

Of course they could be sucking up oil more effectively if they could find one of those underwater plumes that the NOAA refuses to acknowledge yet as actual oil from the gusher. Because, you know, "more testing" is needed. As if they couldn't haul ass out there, take a sample and do the fucking test.

According to some posters here, BP provides 90% of our military oil needs. If so, that would explain a lot of the deferential attitude being displayed toward BP in the face of their ongoing criminal negligence.

It sucks.