Comments on: “Not One Drop Of Oil Spilled”? Not Quite

Analysis: Advocates Repeat False Claim About Environmental Safety Of Offshore Drilling

[steeepe]

The GOP doesn''t care about facts. Drilling won''t help U.S. consumers because the oil will just get sold wherever, probably to China. You can''t force the oil companies to sell it to the U.S. consumer. Fossil fuels = fossil thinking.

[joesemmes]

Great Reporting! Why didn''t CBS report it AS IT WAS HAPPENING? Brought to by the same great reporting that destroyed the life of Richard Jewell. You can count on CBS for consistent reporting of things that never happened. But hey! It''s about ratings isn''t it!

[pvperson]

Gunfighter51 , I have a better question. Where do you live? I''m sure there must be something we could plan for your area that you won''t like. Strip mining, refinery, something. Everything''s great as long as it''s in some else''s backyard, RIGHT?

[samthetvcat]

---"Thanks, David Morgan. Good work getting the facts out."---
Posted by CBS_Oliver

Somebody beat me to it - yeah, thanks for the report . . . it''s fantastic!

[gunfighter51]

Good reason to drill in Alaska.
Of course that will not fly with the left either.
We could strike oil on the moon and the left would find some problem with it.

I have a question for you enviromentalist''s out there who love wind power, are you going to allow us to erect 50,000 windmills in the gulf of Mexico and off the coast of California? How about off the East coast?

[nextgenman]

Republican criminals like Trent Lott and religious nuts like Huckabee always believe that if they just say it, it must be true. Lying has become a staple for Republicans.

[brianbwb-2009]

Posted by IRLiberal

Ubrew was just being sarcastic, he usually is on the side of common sense. There is no need to impugn his statement, the names are clearly stated in the article.

Former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark., Sen. Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., Sen. Trent Lott. R-Hell., Gov. Bobby Jindal, R-La., Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne, and Nancy Pfotenhauer, an energy lobbyist and senior energy adviser to McCain.

What political party do all these liars belong to?

[openureyes2]

Amazing the exact number of barrels leaked reported in this obviously left leaning article. All are concerned with the honesty of politicians (don''t you already know, they don''t know nor can they tell the truth). First point, the amount spilled would be a total unknown as there is no way to gather and measure the volume (duh). Second point is that the % of rigs destroyed was not 100, so with luck the future rigs can be made to withstand such a storm, as will the pipelines. Until the automakers get out of bed with the petroleum lobby we''ll be stuck on oil so drill we should, and must. Need a President that has the guts to mandate a yearly improvement in mileage or stop manufacturing the cars (can and should be done). Enviromentalists don''t like solar, wind, or wave power generation, so until we get them on the same page then we will need to have plenty of "global warming". Vote all of the retards in washington out, and put some plain folks who have to put 40 hrs a week in office, I guarantee that things will change for the better.
I think it was Shakespere who said: 1st thing we do is kill the lawyers...

[randynason]

This news item tells the whole story and the real truth. As is common place, political rhetoric, the corporations and their lapdog politicians who love to earmark for their buddies are lying through their pearly whites to get what they want at the expense of both the environment and the people who vote these monsters (politicians) into office. It''s high time to say "NO" to anything they want. No expansion for you. No increased salary for you. No more elected term of office for you. Beat it.

[irliberal]

Ubrew: Liar

As former Sen. Trent Lott told MSNBC on Tuesday, "We didn''t have one drop of oil spilt when we had the biggest hurricane in, you know, recent history, Hurricane Katrina."

[ubrew12]

Republicans have never claimed that Katrina didn''t spill any oil.

(now, repeat as necessary until everyone believes it)

[downtowner97]

Here in the spin zone called the United States, 9,000,000 gallons of oils is "Not a drop". Many people have known these numbers for years, especially those living in New Orleans who had to wade around in it looking for a way out of the city.

The missing piece of this article is that fact that the oil companies didn''t have to bother cleaning up the oil in any way. They just got to raise their prices and make insurance claims to fix the oil rigs and pipes. We the people got to pay for the cleanup. The oil companies had already counted those 9,000,000 gallons of oil as theirs, so they got to write off the loss on their taxes.

We need to get off of oil.

[flajoe1]

So it''s business as usual, lie and keep telling the same lie over and over and the sheep will follow.

It''s not just the major spills it''s that these rigs are constantly weeping small amounts of oil and other petroleum products that end up on the beach.

[buttonjockey]

: So if nothig was spille why were the prices allowed
: to be gouged over it ?

First off, plenty WAS spilled, as the article plainly documents but our high gas prices after Katrina came largely from refinery damage in the gulf region. We have a lot of them there.

[wogerwabbit]

I am a Rupublican.

Tell me what to think.

I believe.

[elz523]

Sounds like the Republicans are all reading from the same script, which was, no doubt, supplied to them by their oil company buddies. Just another example of them beleiving that is they all say something and they say it often enough, that the American public will beleive them, whether or not what they say has any basis in fact. What is truly disappointing is that they are often right in this beleif.

[patriot12436]

So if nothig was spille why were the prices allowed to be gouged over it ?