ace...all this is about is your childish attempt to force onto me and onto a non-cooperative reality your ridiculous way of framing the questions you ask and/or the issues you pretend to raise.
i've already answered the "point" you "make" about planning multiple times above.
the regulatory arrangement that frames drilling in the ocean needs to fundamentally change. the old conservative-style joke of an arrangement has been shown inadequate in the most basic ways.
there may well have been a file on someone's desk at bp with the title THE PLAN on it, but it was obviously not adapted to deepwater conditions. this has been amply demonstrated through events, documents and testimony, so there's no point in continuing to humor you as if your "point" is serious. it isn't. find something else to obsess about.
would a different regulatory regime prevent accidents? no. but they'd go a whole lot further than this one has in assuring that if there is an accident that there is a plan fitted to the situation. we are 37 days in already, ace. there was functionally speaking no plan to deal with an accident on the deepwater horizon.
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meanwhile back in the world of consequence, it appears that something bad happened this morning. maybe. it's hard to know with all the conflicting information, much of which seems geared around stumbling through the day without the story falling apart so that americans can go to sleep on reality for a few days.
frame by frame here:
pas au-delà
intepretive questions on the oil drum.
there's lots and lots of conflicting information flying around. it's a bit of a farce.