Lessons from the Gulf

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   July 2, 2010

   GOP’s false talking point: Jones Act blocks Gulf help | McClatchy

   http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2010/06/30/96831/gops-false-talking-point-jones.html

   Jindal keeps screaming about foreign skimmers but BP is not even using the local boats at all..

   http://www.americablog.com/2010/07/oil-spill-volunteers-sit-idle-while.html

   (Rocky Ditcharo, a shrimp dock owner in Buras, La., said many fishermen hired by BP have told him that they often park their boats on the shore while they wait for word on where to go.

   ”They just wait because there’s no direction,” Ditcharo said. He said he believes BP has hired many boat captains ”to show numbers.”)

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