Gulf Oil Spill: Palin Camp Says You Can't Trust Foreign Oil Companies

[Are_grits_groceries]

Jason Linkins at HuffPo:

As much as I try to hew to what I call Weigel's First Constant -- which asserts that a diminished value should be placed on the social network statements that emerge from somewhere in the camp of sometime-Alaska Governor Sarah Palin -- this is just too bizarre not to mention.

See, as everyone knows, Palin is pretty much defined as the ultimate in "Drill, Baby, Drill". And she has so many thoughts on the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and What It Means. Mostly, her thoughts evolves slowly, as she learns from other people what she is supposed to think about any given issue. But today, Sarah Inc. took to its Twitter account to offer some lessons about What The Gulf Oil Spill Teaches Us. Her bottom line: don't trust the foreign oils!

Gulf: learn from Alaska's lesson w/foreign oil co's: don't naively trust- VERIFY. Livelihood affected by spill?Don't sign away remedy rights
less than a minute ago via OpenBeak
Sarah Palin
SarahPalinUSA

Yes, it's obviously the fault of those devious Brits! Commence the racial profiling, right?

Of course, while it's based in Britain, BP is a massive, publicly-traded, multinational energy conglomerate, commonly referred to as a "supermajor". It's just one of three companies that are heavily involved with the Deepwater Horizon facility. The other two are Halliburton, an American company, and TransOcean. Spawned from a U.S. company called Sonat, TransOcean became what it is today after mergers with and acquisitions of various foreign entities. It's now headquartered in Switzerland.

Fun fact! I'm not sure that Palin knows this, but another "supermajor" is ExxonMobil, a United States company that I seem to recall has a rather complicated history with the state of Alaska for some reason.

UPDATE: Many thanks to an emailer named Ben, who reminds me that for eighteen long years, that dodgy, not-to-be-trusted foreign oil company known as British Petroleum employed one TODD PALIN.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/05/gulf-oil-spill-palin-camp_n_564407.html

Bless her heart.

[Ganja Ninja]

1. That woman is an idiot. n/t

[Blue Meany]

2. You can't trust foreign oil companies, including those from Texas n/t

[WhiteTara]

3. Halliburton is based in Saudi Arabia

and that is one company I have never trusted.

[Arctic Dave]

4. Does this mean tODD is going to drag up and leave BP?

[polichick]

5. Didn't Halliburton move it's headquarters to Dubai in order to avoid taxes and...

...accountability for all the war money it "lost"?

[Ruby the Liberal]

8. They sure did.

[malaise]

6. STFU Lady Blah Blah

You know nothing about anything.

[Enrique]

7. but if it were an American company...

i guess Palin would advise us, DO naively trust them, sign whatever they put in front of you.

[supernova]

9. She's a wellspring of provincial

isn't she?

Because, you know, it couldn't possibly be that a good ole local American company would cause a spill, now would they?

[walldude]

10. Man, not 2 days ago she was commiserating with the gulf coast residents

claiming she "lived through" the Valdez "accident".

Found an excerpt from her book describing the "horrors" of the Valdez accident.

http://www.conservatives4palin.com/2010/04/palins-experience-with-exxon-valdez-oil.html (sorry bout the wingnut link)

Someone needs to remind her that when you write a book, those words are around forever for all to read:

After a long clean-up effort, as days rolled into weeks, then months, then years, Alaskans’ frustration mounted as ExxonMobile steadily refused to step up and pay the penalty the courts decided it owed for destroying the livelihoods and lifestyles of so many families and communities. And no one in local, state, or national government seemed able to hold the corporate giant accountable.

Guess you can't trust American oil companies either. Guess you can't trust the media to call her out on her hypocrisy either.

[SidDithers]

11. ROFL @ Todd...

she's too stupid to remember who employed her husband for 18 years :rofl:

Sid

[fascisthunter]

12. sure... until it's beneficial to her

[mod mom]

13. So empty headed Sarah, the lessons are:

1. regulate industry like other countries and 2. we should have prosecuted the previous criminal administration!


"The Deepwater rig lacked a remote-control shut-off switch, a back-up system that would close the well even if the rig above was destroyed.-snip The oil companies complained that the $500,000 devices were too expensive. Keep in mind the Deepwater was a $560 million rig. Countries like Norway and Brazil require these precautions to avert catastrophe, but in the US the technology is voluntary. This is thanks to a 2003 decision by the Bush administration's Minerals Management Service (MMS)"

http://motherjones.com/blue-marble/2010/05/bp-getting-heat-gulf-disaster

[Lagomorph]

14. Obama biggest recipient of BP cash

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0510/36783.html

Makes you wonder who you can trust.

[winstars]

15. That Women is an Idiot... KO

[Control-Z]

16. Wow.

Sometimes, there are no words...

[Blue_In_AK]

17. More from The Mudflats

here http://www.themudflats.net/2010/05/05/tweet-of-the-day-from-sarah-palin/