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It's not "private industry," it was one rig.
How good were those regulations or regulators who wrote over 700 citations? Thanks guys. Now the industry as a whole and the citizens of this country are made to suffer a shutdown like that? Brilliant.
Again if oil rigs where operated with high standards for safey no shutdown would have been necessary. The oil drilling industry in responsible for not operating their rigs safely. They have nobody to blame but themselves for the moratorium.
You blaming the goverment for the rig shutdown is like a drunk driver blaming the police for getting his license suspended for DWI.
If you look even the refienrs have given up o Obama by their palnning to import more oil i the future by now they are moving to provide the supply of crude to their projects. They are converting to process twice as much in fewer coastal refineries by feeding from tankers and pipline from canada. The by product is likely shuttig sown mnay inland refineries being operated becauswe the capaity will not then be need with these expansions.
Again if oil rigs where operated with high standards for safey no shutdown would have been necessary. The oil drilling industry in responsible for not operating their rigs safely. They have nobody to blame but themselves for the moratorium.
You blaming the goverment for the rig shutdown is like a drunk driver blaming the police for getting his license suspended for DWI.
Not really. It would be a better comparison if the government shut down all interstates in a state because one driver got a dui.
No doubt Mexico, Brazil, etc., have much
better environmental controls than the US.
Obviously they don't. So less crimiminal and civil class action suits = higher profits. Great for big oil, as they already know. Obama knows this too. Both sides cater to big oil. They dont care what happens to the environment. It doesnt matter one red cent.
This is what you get with non union labor down there. It's no coincidence that oil yards down there are always blowing up and in the union run states like New Jersey you never hear of things like thathappening. They hang the workers jobs over there head to "git r done" or they send you packing. I understand why the men who died did it, they had familys to provide for. It is such a shame that greed is put above safety.
According to OSHA there were 99 workplace deaths in New Hersey in 2009. 65 in Louisiana.
I don't know anyone who desires the best for this country that just sits there and allows this to happen - and yes I am calling out Obama.
He has done nothing for the country.
He has handed out goodies for certain people - but for the country as a collective unit - zero.
Glad you said it, at least you know the scoop, some choose to never see it, that will be our downfall.
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