Obama has little credibility on energy safety

[Enrique]

Watch Obama repeat a falsehood which was usually uttered by some of the biggest hacks in the GOP, such as Bobby Jindal and Haley Barbour, that no offshore spills were caused by Katrina and Rita...

Watch here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tm8gLmuTvJ4&feature=player_embedded


See the DU discussion here:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x460618

Think Progress reports here:

http://wonkroom.thinkprogress.org/2010/04/28/obama-katr... /

Obama’s claim that oil rigs did not cause any spills during Hurricane Katrina is simply false, as the Wonk Room reported in June, 2008, when Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and other conservatives made the same false claim:

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused 124 Offshore Spills For A Total Of 743,700 Gallons. 554,400 gallons were crude oil and condensate from platforms, rigs and pipelines, and 189,000 gallons were refined products from platforms and rigs. (MMS, 1/22/07)

Hurricanes Katrina and Rita Caused Six Offshore Spills Of 42,000 Gallons Or Greater. The largest of these was 152,250 gallons, well over the 100,000 gallon threshhold considered a “major spill.” (MMS, 5/1/06)

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[polichick]

2. He also learned a big fat nothing from last year's oil spill.

[ClarkUSA]

3. Wrong. Yesterday (March 17, 2011): "President Obama requests nuclear review, sees risk in Japan"

The NRC "will carry out the U.S. review Obama requested. The commission will meet on Monday to begin discussions about it, a NRC spokesman said.

"Our nuclear power plants have undergone exhaustive study, and have been declared safe for any number of extreme contingencies," Obama said. "But when we see a crisis like the one in Japan, we have a responsibility to learn from this event, and to draw from those lessons to ensure the safety and security of our people."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110317/ts_nm/us_japan_nuclear_usa

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