BP’s Robert Dudley and Obama Administration’s Carol Browner singing from the same song book…it works everywhere else and it worked before so it must be right.
He (Dudley) also said that the failure of the blowout preventer, the mechanism that was meant to cut off the flow of oil in case of an emergency, is “something that is very, very troubling.”
“It is the piece of equipment that is not expected to fail, and that’s going to have implications for everyone around the world,” he said
Ms. Browner was asked why BP did not have a contingency plan that anticipated the kind of blowout that took place on the Deepwater Horizon. She said that deepwater wells have been drilled for several decades and there had never been this kind of accident.
U.S. Plans ‘for Worst’ in Gulf, Seeing Risk in Leak Strategy – NYTimes.com.
