BP Execs Invited to Obama Meeting

The top federal official overseeing the Gulf oil spill has invited BP executives to meet with President Obama next week.

Special Section: Disaster in the Gulf

Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen issued the invitation in a letter Thursday to BP's chairman, Carl-Henric Svanberg.

The letter requests that Svanberg and "any appropriate officials from BP" meet next Wednesday with senior administration officials. Teh meeting will take place at the White House, reports CBS Radio New White House correspondent Mark Knoller.

Allen said Mr. Obama, who has yet to speak with any BP official since the explosion more than seven weeks ago, would participate in a portion of the meeting.

Gibbs earlier in the day did not rule out the possibility of a meeting next week between Mr. Obama and BP chief executive Tony Hayward. Hayward is scheduled to testify next Thursday at a House Energy subcommittee hearing into the spill.

Conservative commentators, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have been criticizing Mr. Obama for not having met face to face with BP executives. White House reporters repeatedly have asked Gibbs why Mr. Obama hasn't spoken with Hayward or any other top BP officials. Gibbs' answer was that administration officials are in daily contact with BP.

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[MichaelJParks]

Why does the discussion have to focus on NOT capturing the spilt oil in order to benefit the economy of the US?

Can't we fight back against the owners of BP as well as the other elements of the globalist elite, who have been deliberately undermining the US economy for years, by demanding that the huge amount of oil being spilt into the Gulf be captured and sold on the market?

If enough voices speak the same message, maybe we can force them to flood the market with surplus oil?..............some serious estimates of the true amount of contamination range as high as 1,000,000 gallons per day. If there is enough oil being wasted to destroy Atlantic as much as 4000 miles of coastline, that's alot of oil! Let's make them put it into supply................it should have a seriously positive impact on the energy cost component of our economy & possibly the health of the dollar, don't you think?

BP's fooling around with bandaid approaches to stopping this leak are hard to swallow. The world has plenty of very intelligent engineers, certainly they could find a way to capture every thing coming out of that well and fill tanker after tanker with it...............they must not really want to do that due to the effect it would have on the price of crude. It doesn't seem like it would take much to seperate any seawater out of the recovered crude and ship it off to the refineries. What do you think, if that is a reasonable idea, how can we get enough voices shouting in order to force the administration to get off their rear end?

Can you believe that Obama has never met the CEO of BP face to face, much less told him in any serious fashion that they will be spend the money to fix this mess. Michael

[hodieb-khalifa]

CONTACT YOUR SENATORS & CONGRESSMEN

As an expert in oilfields in the Middle East, I've already offered BP the following simple technique that can instantly plug the well. Though BP admitted it can work, it wouldn't implement it because it will kill the Well.

Plugging BP Well by a String of Cement-Filled Casing Pipes:

{BP has to lower down the wellbore through the Riser Pipe Stub and the Blowout Preventer a string of 16"- 18" Casing Pipes connected together about 500-1000 ft long after being filled with cement. The wild well will instantly be plugged and there will be no need for the Relief Wells. The annulus space between the Casing Pipe String and the well walls can be filled by pumping cement. The whole operation will take a couple of hours- finito!}

PLEASE ASK YOUR SENATORS & CONGRESSMEN TO INVITE ME to face Tony Hayward during his hearing this week to expose the real BP for US officials and citizens, then implement this solution.

Eng. Hodieb Khalifa
Cairo - Egypt
hodieb_khalifa yahoo

[abbe91]

"Conservative commentators, including former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, have been criticizing Mr. Obama for not having met face to face with BP executives."

Of course, Palin had meetings with Oil executives all the time ...
And for the pour soul calling Obama "Oilbama", look at the relationships of former (Vice)-Presidents for a reality check.

[scallahan110]

FRANKLY my Dear; I don?t give a damn!! ..
I DON?T give a DAMN on how much BP has spent to clean up their own MISTAKES!
I do care about how much they (BP) did not spend to make sure their (again BP) equipment and rigs were safe. All requirements to deal with this man made accident should be updated, to many regulation are out of date, I blame the government and lobbyist for this as well. Shut up BP and fix it, too many common people have come up with suggestion that make BP look LAME to say the least.
Every city that borders the Gulf of Mexico should excavation/dig barrier sandbars to protect the wet lands. This would employee locals and gives the people hope of saving our environment. I suggest that you contact your Mayor ASAP if you are in one of these cities.
Sherry Callahan

[agnosticcc]

There is a sense here that these attacks are being made because BP is British. Because American companies like Transocean who owns and operates the rig, Cameron who made that failed blow-out preventer, Halliburton who was suppose to cement that well, had never been mentioned or attacked as vigorously as BP. While this Disaster already costs BP $1.3 billon, those
american companies $0. U.S. banks had not suffered from the same personalised attacks in spite of the global economic damage caused by their irresponsible, unchecked greed and avarice. Just play to the domestic audience and blame the foreigners. I commend BP in the dignified way they've conducted themselves in the face of a barrage of ill-informed and politically motivated insults. So much for the SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP!

[stn_sage]

INVITE them?! What!? I'd order them to 'stand by' to be picked up at a certain place and time, and if they weren't there, they will be found and forcibly brought to the meeting!!

This company and subsidiaries, have put TENS of thousands of American workers out of work! They have destroyed or badly hurt the tourist industry along the Gulf. They have hurt and damaged the health via polluted air and water, of TENS of millions of Americans. And, they
have destroyed or badly damaged the environment for YEARS to come,
if not forever! So, I believe an ORDER to attend is much more appropriate then an invitation!

Ob course, it would help if the President would get off his 'arse
and start taking aggressive action against these companies and people, even if they are personal campaign donors of his, or is it HIS plan to allow them to destroy the earth?!!

[agnosticcc]

There is a sense here that these attacks are being made because BP is British. Because American companies like Transocean who owns and operates the rig, Cameron who made that failed blow-out preventer, Halliburton who was suppose to cement that well, had never been mentioned or attacked as vigorously as BP. While this Disaster already costs BP $1.3 billon, those
american companies $0. U.S. banks had not suffered from the same personalised attacks in spite of the global economic damage caused by their irresponsible, unchecked greed and avarice. Just play to the domestic audience and blame the foreigners. I commend BP in the dignified way they've conducted themselves in the face of a barrage of ill-informed and politically motivated insults. So much for the SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP!

[abbe91]

I would say "because BP sounds British". It's actually a multinational now.

[wjksea]

Next trend is "bp" trolling for public sentiments in Britain since they have gotten little here. The British now see holding "bp" accountable as an attack on the Brits and a threat to their pension funds.

Ha, wonder where that propagandist concern arose from?

Hmm, who can buy off yahoo, google et.al.? Typical multinational corporate game. It's private business until they poo poo their panties then it's a public concern.

Come hither corporate nanny state and bail out the private corporate government. Do it off the lives and backs of the people and let them eat cake.

[tmittelstaed]

Since neither Obama or Svanberg know the first thing about stopping the oil spill, there really isn't much point in meeting. The only people who really know anything about stopping the spill are the oil drilling techs.

[wjksea]

Exactly, and where are they?