Every asshole who chanted 'Drill baby drill' should have to report to Gulf for cleanup dutySheesh. Okay, just to show how stupid that is, let's try some other examples:
Everyone who likes to fly commercial will have to clean up the next airline crash.Is offshore drilling risky? Yes. Although the frequency and severity of accidents is way down, things can still go wrong as they did in Louisiana. Should we stop drilling because there was an accident? Of course not.
Everyone who buys things that were shipped by train will have to report to the next derailment.
Everyone whose lights turn on because of a coal-fired power plant will have to show up at the next mine disaster.
But airline travel is risky too, and yet we continue to fly. Why? The reward outweighs the risk involved. So too with offshore drilling. The benefit of producing our own energy both in economic terms and security terms far outweighs the risks to the environment. No one is better at cleaning up our messes than we are, and when this is all done, you won't even be able to tell it happened. Just look at Prince William Sound in Alaska, or the Santa Barbara coast. Both were hit with huge oil spills and both have fully recovered. Louisiana will recover too.
Just once it would be nice to see a little emotional maturity on the left.
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It would appear that the owner of the wrecked oil rig did not have automatic shutoff protection. I cannot imagine that this would not have been standard practice, and I cannot believe that there will be huge bills sent for the cleanup. Could be wrong, however, I will not hold my breath.
"Just one it would be nice to see a little emotional maturity on the left."
Chance of that happening: Next to zip.
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