Our leaders are having inane arguments over contingency plans. Rep. Rep. Ed Markey grilled ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson on why all of the companies included walruses in their oil-spill response plans despite the fact that walruses don't live there.
Tillerson began to describe how the plan is made up of several studies before cutting to the chase:
"And it's unfortunate that walruses were included. It's an embarrassment that they were included."
Markey then asked the other execs, including Chevron CEO John Watson and BP CEO Lamar McKay whether they were also embarrassed. They all said yes.
I'm so glad. We can all rest easy.
-- Monica Potts
