Is Palin saying oil companies are not responsible for this disaster??

Just saw Palin's newest rants about the Gulf Coast disaster on Fox News..... she says environmentalists are somehow to blame since they are asking for stricter regulations on shallow drilling of oil; consequently allowing deep water drilling by foreign oil companies.

Does this make sense to anyone????

It seems that she has a very short memory since she has a long record of recommending ALL drilling (inc. deep water drilling) as well as insisting that private industry can be trusted to ensure the safety of these drilling projects.

It is apparent that oil companies (in this case BP) can not be trusted to take adequate safety precautions; in fact, there is mounting evidence that BP consistently ignored the law and failed to correct even those safety violations for which they had been fined (over 700 in the last year).

If there is to be any lesson to be learned it is that we have to give the EPA and other regulatory agencies more effective tools to enforce the laws that we have on the books.

BP said that it had technologies and plans in place to quickly and effectively deal with any oil spill (deluge is a better word); maybe they have the "plan" or the "research" but they certainly did not spend the money to put these emergency measures in place.

If the federal government is to faulted, it is that they allowed the oil rig to go online before these safety precautions were in place.

If this is not an issue to address in a non-partisan way, what is? As the ex-governer of Alaska and staunch advocate of the expansion of oil drilling, shouldn't Palin be more concerned about the safety of oil rigs already on line in her state?

Not to mention the governor of Louisiana, who is still advocating the expansion of oil drilling in the Gulf for the sake of the economy???