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The BP spill isn't the inevitable outcome of drilling offshore and in deep water. This could have been prevented had they been more careful. We're already getti
by MichaelApproved 16y ago
The BP spill isn't the inevitable outcome of drilling offshore and in deep water. This could have been prevented had they been more careful. We're already getting reports of a hurried job that cut corners. As the investigation continues I bet more will come out.
The "risk" in drilling for oil should be empty wells, not massive uncontrolled spills. If BP did a proper job they probably wouldn't be in this mess.
- jbooth 16y agoWell, when you add offshore drilling, deep water, and a cultural determination to eliminate regulations as cases of "improper government interference in the marketplace" or whatever, it starts to look pretty inevitable to me. Why should they do a proper job? Nothing had gone wrong the way they were doing it, it was fine, right?