Obama urges the transition to alternative energy
The report is made FREMONT, Calif. President tightens screw by strengthening rules of oil drilling equipment, responds to the questions about his political position by constantly going back to Gulf Coast tragedy in order to make US citizens sure that all actions had been taken and he has full control over the situation as a President.
After the Gulf Coast tragedy occurred the president had become the subject of criticism both from Democrats and Republicans as the actions aimed at getting the tragedy consequences rid off took too much time, having left hard feeling among country citizens. President tries all his best to raise his public rating to show that he has everything under control not taking into account White House statements about big work done for tragedy consequences stop
Media images of oil, leaking from a broken underwater pipe made lot of people really frustrated and didn't add reputation scores both to British Petroleum Company and Government, which doesn't have sufficient equipment to cope with such type problems.
Trying to take the tragedy edge off, the president promised to bring all resources the government possesses in order to stop the spill. He had also had to admit that the tragedy consequences were serious during his visit to California solar energy station. He has also mentioned real facts about eleven dead workers, environment, animals and fish economy damages. Obama had been faced with an unprofitable situation when stand-by mode would not add political scores to him or any other political leader.
The president mentioned that the country has not person who was more upset with tragedy than he was, as such tragedy had turned out to be the proof that not all challenges could be solved. During his meeting with Democrats president mentioned the main inconvenience of his position was to be blamed when the challenges were solved in a manner which didn't satisfy everyone, who expected the resident to be the only expert who knew how to solve problems. He pointed out the deepwater drilling economical issues, the growth of risks and costs for the oil obtained in such way.
The administration did a lot in for leak stoppage, they restrained oil diffusion and provided help to companies who had suffered from the tragedy, but their actions had been evanescent.
None knows if the analogy had been put into the right place but now public opinions sees though the government unskilled actions during Hurricane Katrina, which made serious damages both to all Gulf region and to the rating of former US president George W. Bush. This tragedy showed the same situation with Barak Obama, whose rating had turned worse based on his way of Gulf tragedy control.
The next check point the president plan to harden equipment control and drilling permits obtaining requirements after obtaining the results of offshore development safety review made within thirty days by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. The same thing was about president proposal prolong the moratorium for new offshore developments, approved after oil leakage which took place on April, 20, 2010 from the start of fire and further flooding of Deepwater Horizon equipment, leased by British Petroleum Company.
The president has also had to answer White House media department questions on the issue of presidential new conferences amount decrease. Last year Obama had conducted twelve full conferences. From the beginning of this year he had only two and none since the catastrophe began.
Later on Barak Obama went to Louisiana to provide kind of region people support and rating-raise visit. He had made another visit afterwards during which he talked about government further and merciless respond to important and potentially unforeseen environment catastrophe
During his interview to ABC James Carville, the loyal Obama party follower in Louisiana expressed his surprise on why people who wanted president to come back as soon as possible had expressed such indifference and had been wondering if the president saw the situation.
Barak Obama however saw and continued setting the examples of what his government had done. During the meeting in Rose Garden he said that he shared people rage and uncertainty. And this had been just one example.
Though citizens were hard to understand that this had been the only thing the government could do.
According to Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, the officer who had been officially responsible for government actions control during the tragedy, mentioned that the government had been overrating its' capacities to cope with tragedy consequences as BP and private sector had been the only one who could cope with the disaster of such scale. Such statements made people questioned who was in charge of tragedy consequences liquidation and one way or another the line went back to the president. Such turn occurred based on Salazar announcement about the necessity to replace BP as the ones who had not been able to cope with the problem and the Allen answer doubting about the candidates of such replacement.
Seeing the situation flow Washington had lost its patience: the Congress had had five sessions a day concerning oil leakage, the four of which took place at White House. The Obama rating had grown a little bit for the way he controlled the spill, having 42% of positive and 33% of negative attitudes. Afterwards enquiries results displayed more negative both to president and Oil Company.
According to CBS News, CNN and Pew Research Center results the attitude towards president way of tragedy was more negative, and the negative attitude towards BP had been ranked for seven of ten.
Afterwards BP made his last attempt to stop leakage, using "top kill" method (putting dense mud layer under the water).
