{"id":1887,"date":"2010-06-16T01:59:18","date_gmt":"2010-06-16T08:59:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=1887"},"modified":"2010-06-16T02:50:29","modified_gmt":"2010-06-16T09:50:29","slug":"the-only-way-to-win-is-not-to-play","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/06\/16\/the-only-way-to-win-is-not-to-play\/","title":{"rendered":"The Only Way to Win is Not to Play"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Congressional hearings on the spill left no doubt that the CEO\u2019s of the world\u2019s five largest oil companies are oblivious as to what to do next.\u00a0 After the other CEO\u2019s threw BP under the bus, they admitted as much.<\/span><\/p>\n

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\"16Tillerson\"<\/a> ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson told Congress we must do everything possible to prevent offshore drilling disasters, because once they occur, there is not any way to stop the damage. By admitting the unavoidable risk of catastrophe, Tillerson exploded the myths \u2014 promoted by the oil industry and right-wing supporters \u2014 that offshore drilling is \u201cenvironmentally safe,\u201d and that the industry can handle these disasters when they occur. Tillerson made the shocking admission that the industry is \u201cnot well equipped to prevent any and all damage\u201d under questioning from Rep. Bart Stupak (D-MI), the chair of the oversight subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, during a hearing that featured top executives from the five largest private oil companies:<\/p>\n

There will be impacts as we are seeing. We have never represented anything different than that. That\u2019s why the emphasis is always on preventing these things from occurring because when they happen we are not well equipped to deal with them<\/span>. And that\u2019s just a fact of the enormity of what we\u2019re dealing with.<\/p>\n

Watch it:<\/p>\n

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The only fail-safe way to prevent oil drilling disasters, in fact, is to stop drilling for oil \u2014 in other words, \u201cThe only winning move is not to play<\/a>.\u201d This is yet another reason this nation needs an energy policy that puts a cap on oil pollution and ends our toxic addiction\u2026 [emphasis original]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

These clowns would not even admit to having heard of IXTOC.<\/span><\/p>\n

The industry had demonstrated with dozens of spills, not even mentioning the thousands of barrels currently flowing into and befouling the Gulf, that their ability to prevent leaks is no better than that to clean up after them.\u00a0 As sympathetic as I am for those who will lose their jobs, there must be no more deep water drilling until such time as the oil industry can unequivocally demonstrate the ability to both prevent deep water spills and prevent environmental damage in case there is one.<\/span><\/p>\n

The rules of the deep water drilling fame are now clear.\u00a0 The only winning move is not to play.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Congressional hearings on the spill left no doubt that the CEO\u2019s of the world\u2019s five largest oil companies are oblivious as to what to do next.\u00a0 After the other CEO\u2019s threw BP under the bus, they admitted as much. ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson told Congress we must do everything possible to prevent offshore drilling […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}