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to save and splurge. first, with b.p. crews skipping town, does that mean the gulf oil spill is all cleaned up? governor rick scott with his analysis one year after the worst oil accident ever. ah! fiber one honey clusters cereal!
chills. it has to do with the bp oil accident in the coast of mexico. what they found is a crucial valve called a blowout preventer didn t work. it was supposed to seal off the pipe when there s pressure. instead they got jammed and left a 1.4 inch space. and all 4.9 million barrels of oil gushed through that space. and that s what caused the worst oil spill in u.s. history. they found it wasn t bp s fault, but a flaw in the design. does anyone want to bet there aren t similar flaws in our nuclear plants? peal aweus td u abt l isqume dec at nuclear plants. if 1.4 inches did that much damage with an oil spill. how much damage can it do at a nuclear facility? with me now is the director of reactor oversight for beyond nuclear public advocacy group.
significant. this is the largest leak, the largest oil accident in the history of the country, and i am sure there is a commensurate fine. are we talking about another $20 billion? ballpark figure? well, there are different ways to do the calculations, but it is a significant amentf money. this is in addition to the money that is in an escrow that ken feinberg will distribute through the claims process. yes, and then a third part which is the natural resources damages and they have to pay for the natural resources that were damaged, and then that money is used to restore those damages. to restore the environment. carol browner is the energy adviser to the president. good luck and thanks. thank you. and now some struggling gas stations that are angry, bp is lowering the gas prices, and most gas stations are independent businesses and the oil giant does not set gas station price, but bp is offering incentives to distributors that could trim two
no. geraldo, it is amazing to me that robert would actually lie from the podium of the brady briefing room like that. what i told neil cavuto on your network on either monday or tuesday was that once the accident occurred and i didn t comment at all on how the accident may have occurred, it was an oil accident. i mean i have worked in the oil field before, i know these accidents happened. what i said was that once the accident occurred they would see an opportunity to say look how bad offshore drilling is and they would use that as an excuse politically to pander to the left and to shut down offshore drilling. geraldo: so you think that they seized that this is a rahm emanuel kind of conspiracy that the accident happened and they say aha, don t let a crisis go to waste, let s really cripple offshore drilling? is that your suggestion, michael. i wouldn t even say it as conspiracy for a couple of reasons. one is that is the rahm emanuel rule.