Social Question
Is this just another day at the office in big oil?
Ok, can we finally agree that things have gotten out of hand and time to take away the keys to the White House?
Staff members at an agency that oversees offshore drilling accepted tickets to sports events, lunches and other gifts from oil and gas companies and used government computers to view pornography, according to an Interior Department report alleging a culture of cronyism between regulators and the industry. The MMS office had repeatedly accepted gifts, including hunting and fishing trips from the Island Operating Company, an oil and gas company working on oil platforms regulated by the Interior Department.
In at least one case, an inspector for the Minerals Management Service admitted using crystal methamphetamine and said he might have been under the influence of the drug the next day at work.
These accepted practices at the MMS are probably a left over from the Bush regime and even before but can we finally agree that things have gotten out of hand and time to do some serious reforming now? Heads need to roll over this event.