BP Ripped Off by Federal and Local Governments One Year After Oil Spill

We know the bad environmental policies of the Obama administration is what led to the BP Gulf oil spill last year. How is that? Well, the federal government forced oil rigs into deeper waters without the safety equipment needed to protect the ocean from an oil spill. Had the BP rig been closer to shore, the damage down would have been easily contained and minimized. The Obama administration pushed the rigs further out to deeper waters and we know what happened next.

Of course BP was made to pay for the damages--as they should be--but once again we have seen just how corrupt government is when it comes to these matters. The money BP was forced to pay didn't necessarily go to clean up the environment, but it did got to fund the police state and other matters.

The oil giant opened its checkbook while the crisis was still unfolding last spring and poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Gulf Coast communities with few strings attached.

In sleepy Ocean Springs, Miss., reserve police officers got Tasers. The sewer department in nearby Gulfport bought a $300,000 vacuum truck that never sucked up a drop of oil. Biloxi, Miss., bought a dozen SUVS. A parish president in Louisiana got herself a top-of-the-line iPad, her spokesman a $3,100 laptop. And a county in Florida spent $560,000 on rock concerts to promote its oil-free beaches...

Florida’s tourism agency sent chunks of a $32 million BP grant as far away as Miami-Dade and Broward counties on the state’s east coast, which never saw oil from the disaster.

Concerts, iPads, tasers? I thought the damage down was catastrophic but once again we are reminded of the corruption of government.