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No. I support the basic safety regulations that are already in place. LiterateDog Send a noteboard - 03/06/2010 09:55:42 AM
I also support the government actually doing its job in regard to policing the wells. If they'd enforced what was in place, this wouldn't have happened.

At least BP is going to have real consequences over this and I suspect they and many other oil companies are going to "clean up their acts" all on their own now.


I wouldn't be so sure about that. Letting oil companies regulate themselves didn't exactly work out for us in this case. These companies didn't "clean up their acts" after Exxon Valdez, and I doubt they'd do it after BP's disaster.


Oh, I'm sorry, my bad. I would have sworn the Valdez was about a tanker crash. I didn't know it was about unsafely operating offshore wells. No...no...wait. It was about a crash and unsafe operations of a tanker. Yeah, you're right, they didn't learn anything from that. We've had what, 20? 30?, tanker crashes yearly since then? Ummm. No, that's not right, either. We haven't had any crashes here since then. So....hmmmm....maybe they did learn a lesson. Just like they're sure to learn one form this incident. I know one thing I've learned from it: government workers protected by unions often don't give a shit about doing their jobs and aren't going to face any real consequences for their neglect. BP will at least pay a very real price for their actions.
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Assuming the government is right, and 210,000 gallons of oil go into the Gulf each day... Tom - 03/06/2010 01:47:55 AM 840 Views
The estimates are always going to be rounded figures. LiterateDog - 03/06/2010 02:23:35 AM 607 Views
True enough about activists, but the alternative energy folks have pretty good evidence now. Ghavrel - 03/06/2010 02:30:55 AM 661 Views
Alternative energy is a pipe dream for now, though. LiterateDog - 03/06/2010 02:40:41 AM 710 Views
So you support greater regulation and oversight of offshore oil? Libby - 03/06/2010 09:30:25 AM 636 Views
No. I support the basic safety regulations that are already in place. LiterateDog - 03/06/2010 09:55:42 AM 628 Views
The current basic regulations are not enough, that's the point Libby - 03/06/2010 10:15:19 AM 685 Views
BP says it's already spent $990 million. The question is how many billions it will end up being. *NM* Ghavrel - 03/06/2010 02:25:41 AM 259 Views
Well BP better be spending money cleaning up the gulf. Roland00 - 03/06/2010 03:03:10 AM 580 Views
That's a lot of oil. *NM* LordPerrin - 03/06/2010 03:58:18 AM 275 Views
The fact is, no one knows how much oil has been leaking. Libby - 03/06/2010 09:48:25 AM 609 Views
Straw man alert! LiterateDog - 03/06/2010 09:57:59 AM 651 Views
Of course, unfettered private sector ‎can do no wrong. right? Libby - 03/06/2010 10:27:19 AM 654 Views
fixed for you scalius - 03/06/2010 04:32:37 PM 630 Views
Actually...let me fix that again Libby - 03/06/2010 07:07:36 PM 636 Views
I prefer the more conservative number to media hyperbole. Tom - 03/06/2010 05:52:07 PM 703 Views
Well, considering the original conservative number has been proven drastically wrong. Libby - 03/06/2010 07:28:27 PM 619 Views
70,000 barrels a day is obviously hyperbole. Tom - 03/06/2010 08:45:03 PM 625 Views
But you'd agree that half-million to a million gallons is a pretty reasonable estimate? Libby - 03/06/2010 10:34:58 PM 682 Views
I think it's probably under 20,000 but could be as much as 30,000. 70,000 is way too high. Tom - 04/06/2010 12:48:03 AM 543 Views
See, just because we are european doesn't mean we're incapable of understanding... jh - 03/06/2010 09:53:25 AM 598 Views
Acutally... Camilla - 03/06/2010 10:51:52 AM 673 Views
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