Stolen from Hot Air.
This has gotten little attention due to the murders in Arizona and the fixation of the Lame Stream Media with blaming the right for someone that was actually more aligned with their own ideology.
The commission published a 398 page report on the Gulf oil spill.
There was a lot of finger pointing at BP, which inevitably turned on the rest of the oil industry which has has a rather exemplary safety record in comparison to the amount of drilling that actually takes place.
Investors Business Daily has the story:
A commission appointed to investigate BP’s well disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and recommend ways to drill safely has labored mightily and produced the functional equivalent of a tar ball.
The National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling cites the “incredible incompetence” of British Petroleum and its upper management in at least nine specific decisions. Then it unjustifiably extrapolates BP’s errors to the entire oil industry, whose safety record is ignored.
It mattered not that between 1969 and 2009 oil companies drilled more than 50,000 offshore wells without a serious mishap. Brazil, Britain, Norway and others drill safely offshore. No major spills were recorded when hurricanes Katrina and Rita roared through some 3,050 offshore oil and gas platforms operating in the Gulf.
Besides blaming an entire industry with an impeccable safety record for BP’s failure, the commission also ignores the failure of federal oversight or advance preparation for such a spill and recommends the creation of another entirely new federal agency to oversee all offshore oil and gas drilling.
As usual, the oil industry takes an undeserved hit. Anything to further the irrational green ideology of the left.
I consider this just another form of eco-terrorism from them.
Truth, Lies and In Between 
………………………Even as it opposes the on offshore drilling the oil industry has doubts about the quality and long-term viability of equipment that it uses to extract oil from deep-water wells such as the one at the center of the Gulf oil spill…….. The offshore industry counters that the amount of crude spilled and the number of spills hit a record low this past decade.Yet both industry experts and managerial personnel acknowledge that the technology used to remove offshore oil from its reservoirs particularly in deep water has been outstripped by engineers ability to find and drill for that oil.That has left members of the oil industry dissatisfied with the tools they need to work in one of earths most challenging environments.
Associated PressWASHINGTON The company whose Gulf of Mexico oil platform erupted in flames this week cited the industrys excellent safety record when it opposed a proposed federal rule last year that would require offshore oil and gas operators to have safety systems aimed at reducing workers mistakes.The government still hasnt put the safety rule in place despite Interior Secretary Ken Salazars recommendation months ago that it be adopted. regulator Elizabeth Birnbaum who lost her job after the BP oil spill previously told Congress that the safety rule would eliminate two-thirds of all offshore accidents.It was not immediately clear whether these safety systems could have prevented the fire in the Gulf which is still under investigation.In a Sept.