ApocaDocs: BP's oil spill caused by Fed's 'dangerous culture of permissiveness'

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Posted Thu Jul 22 2010: from McClatchy, via DesdemonaDespair:


	BP's oil spill caused by Fed's 'dangerous culture of permissiveness' http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1279811989 The Bush administration focused from its earliest days on ramping up domestic oil and gas production, charged House Democrats, but at the same time allowed the industry a "dangerous culture of permissiveness" that culminated in the April 20 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon in the Gulf of Mexico.... The House panel interrogated former Interior Department secretaries who implemented the 2001 recommendations of former Vice President Dick Cheney's energy task force, which in turn resulted in an executive order requiring federal agencies to expedite offshore drilling and other domestic energy production.

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'Doc Jim says:

Aren't these the same guys who rail about permissive parents?