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There was no reason to shut down off shore oil drilling. Hysteria is not an answer to what happened with BP and yes BP is culpbale but not the entire industry.
Off shore drilling was not shutdown. 33 deep drilling rigs which makes up about 5% of the entire Gulf output is what is shutdown.
There was no reason to shut down off shore oil drilling. Hysteria is not an answer to what happened with BP and yes BP is culpbale but not the entire industry.
Right. Because deep sea drilling is 100% safe and if by some freak accident a blowout ever occurs we have proven technology to cap the leak and clean up the mess.
Right. Because deep sea drilling is 100% safe and if by some freak accident a blowout ever occurs we have proven technology to cap the leak and clean up the mess.
I'm sure they would much rather be drilling on land, which is indeed much safer.. but you liberals dont like that.. do you?
I wish that judge and his entire family could boil from their own body heat because they are covered in oil just like the millions and millions of our animals have.....
I bet your parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins, friends do too.
Tell me, by what authority/expert opinion does obama have to put in place the moratorium?
We already KNOW that his administration (salazar) LIED about the panel of obama experts agreeing to the moratorium.
Well let's see - how about the opinion of these "experts"
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[A] contingency plan that was so poorly devised and executed is the model replicated throughout the American oil industry.
Indeed, were an incident similar to Deepwater to occur again, "We are not well-equipped to handle [it]," admits Tillerson. Building a relief well, an expensive and time consuming enterprise that could not stop the damage nearly soon enough (BP's relief wells are expected to be completed in mid-August), is the "only" surefire remedy to such a leak, admits James Mulva, chairman of ConocoPhillips.
Perhaps he's relying on the statements made by the oil companies themselves - Didn't they tell Congress they used one company to submit a duplicate emergency contingency plan that would leave us in the exact position we're in now?
I am just itching to weigh in on this, but I don't feel like I can. You see, I have huge conflicts of interest.
I use gasoline in my car to get to work every day.
My business is heated with natural gas.
The food my family eats is grown with the use of fertilizers derived from petroleum.
The electricity in my home and business comes in part from the combustion of natural gas.
Many of the products that make life so grand in the 21st century, including my computer, contain plastics that are petroleum-based.
So I'd like to present my own high and mighty opinions and prescribe actions that have drastic effects on our society, but I have been cravenly co-opted by Big Oil. Words cannot describe how I feel about those noble souls who do not use oil every day in many ways to make their lives better.
If the judge owns drilling stocks then he would be better off to let those drillers move on to other countries where there are fewer restrictions on production. And probly fewer penalties for unexpected explosions and loss of life.
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