"This incident didn't occur because BP didn't care about the environment or needed a government agency to tell it that an exploding oil rig would be a very bad thing. The individuals who work for MMS [Minerals Management Service ..... the Federal oversight agency], even if their motivations are entirely pure, have zero skin in the game compared to BP. The Gulf oil spill is like the crash of a commercial airliner--the worst possible disaster for the company in question.
So I don't doubt that the Obama administration's juvenile "green energy" fetish diverted the attention of MMS away from offshore oil exploration, but I do doubt whether it makes sense, in the first place, to think that a government agency either knows or care more about preventing spills than BP." [Power Line]
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