Throughout this oil mess BP has been substantially uncooperative.
And the Gummint has been substantially nice.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
Representative Edward J. Markey, Democrat of Massachusetts and chairman of the Subcommittee on Energy and the Environment, criticized BP, saying it had failed to respond substantively to his requests for more information about how it had reached its estimate of how much oil is leaking. He also said the company had refused to engage independent scientists who might offer a better assessment of the amount.
http://www.nytimes.com/...
BP has resisted entreaties from scientists that they be allowed to use sophisticated instruments at the ocean floor that would give a far more accurate picture of how much oil is really gushing from the well.
"The answer is no to that," a BP spokesman, Tom Mueller, said on Saturday. "We're not going to take any extra efforts now to calculate flow there at this point. It's not relevant to the response effort, and it might even detract from the response effort."
Well, just what in the fuck is going on? Doesn't all this look at least a little suspicious? And why is the Gummint sitting on its ass?
"Gee, we asked them but they just won't tell us. You can't blame us for sticikng with that 5,000 barrel-a-day estimate. We can't help it. BP won't tell us what they know."
Well, I've got an idea. One that seems to be flying right over the Government's heads.
Invade BP. Just walk the fuck in, bring a bunch of engineers and scientisis and take the fucking thing over. Nationalize it immediately. Just do it physically. Fuck the paperwork. That can come later. National security. National Emergency. Eminent Domain. Find out what they have and why they've been refusing to share it.
I mean what the fuck is the Government doing just sitting there on its fucking asses, being a nice guy. I'd hate to think they're in bed with BP in some sort of cover-up.
The environment is dying. People will get sick and die. Entire fucking states will die.
And BP remains untouchable. That has to fucking end. Now.
UPDATE: To clarify: What if we give them, say, 24 hours to comply and then they give us stuff? How would we know if it's everything? I understand they have a less than exemplary record for honesty.