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Inadequate. >> exxonmobil, chevron, con coe, phillips and shell are as unprepared as bp was, and that is a serious problem. >> reporter: to show them as out of touch, the chairman berated the ceos for including the protection of walruss in their oil spill plans. >> there aren't any walruss in the gulf of mexico, and there have not been for three million years. >> it is unfortunate that walruss were included and it is an embarrassment that they were included, but it is part of a larger marine study that was used in preparing regional response plans. >> reporter: to paint a picture of a industry...

There's a hearing, the house energy committee is hearing from the ceos of the big oil companies, not just bp. some of them trying to distance themselves from bp. i want to let you listen to two gentlemen. one is a democrat. he is the chairman of the committee. one is a republican. let's listen to ed markey first. >> in preparation for this hearing, the committee reviewed the oil spill safety response plans for all of the companies here today. what we found was that these five companies have response plans that are virtually identical. the plans cite identical response capabilities and tout ide...

Committee was, to demonstrate all five companies have the same plan, they're all equally inadequate. the chairman of exxon mobil caved and said we're not well equipped to handle one of these things but the chairman of bp american a professional witness before congress, defended the industry's response plans. >> it's unfortunate we can't get it stopped at the source right now. we're doing everything we can to do that. but i think the command structure has been functional and the spill response have been leaned upon and been the foundation of that. >> one other point he declined to confirm repor...

Companies, not just bp, made the exact same assurances. the covers of the five response plans are different colors but the content is 90% identical. like bp, three other companies include references to protecting walruses, which have not called the gulf of mexico home for 3 million years. two other plans are such dead ringers for bp's that they list a phone number for the same long-dead expert. >> reporter: so the point here, brooke, that you see congressman marquee and other democrats making is that these four other oil companies are as unprepared to deal with the disaster as bp is. now, that...

The other plans including conoco phillips, there is a dr. lutz, who is referred to as an expert, a technical support person. mr. lutz died in 2005, four years before the plan was actually filed. >> the fact that dr. lutz died in 2005 does not mean his work and the importance of his work died with him. >> i mean, and the idiocy of these response plans as stupak -- and we're going to have congressman stupak on in a couple minutes -- they devoted 40 pages to how they would deal with the media in the case of a worst case disaster, and nine pages to the cleanup. >> that's the problem. they said the...