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Originally Posted by ring
Ace, it's difficult for all of us to wrap our heads around the fact
that our cavalier-full-steam-ahead-risks-be-damned-determination to poke
giant holes in our earth's crust, to satisfy our addictions, is lunacy.
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I think your point here is important, but perhaps not in the manner you intended. In order to properly address problems we have to understand their root causes. Sure at time we we be cavalier, but at some point we have to get seriuous and really understand what is going on. Is regulation the problem? Is lack of planning the problem? Is profit motive the problem? Is enforcement the problem? Is it a combination? Personally, I think we need to drill for oil, there are risks, there will always be risks, and that it may be an illusion that increased regulation (short of saying no to drilling) or an illusion that a "plan" will solve the problem of risk. To pin those down making superficial comments on this subject is important and is getting increasingly important. We can't just - not drill. We can't think that thousands of pages of new regulation, or new regulators, or shouting they did not have a plan when they did is going to help prevent accidents or reduce real risk.
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Try to think of BP as a king-pin drug dealer, that's a lot of power.
Have you seen the videos from the Russian natural gas hole they poked
back in...'69 I believe?
The oil wells they are drilling into in the gulf are deep.
They have drilled down, 35,000 feet.
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Given our need for oil. Our government should not treat the industry like criminals. Perhaps that is one problem also.