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An offshore drilling platform costs about 250M to build and deploy. It is not funded by tax payers and it starts paying for itself after a few years (they extr
by guraf 3y ago
An offshore drilling platform costs about 250M to build and deploy.
It is not funded by tax payers and it starts paying for itself after a few years (they extract $250,000 worth of oil per day on average, up to double that).
I don't understand your comparison?
- ornornor 3y agoMaybe parent was hinting at the astronomical numbers and the relative futility of spending this amount on this vs that.
- jvanderbot 3y agoI was saying that in the scale of human enterprises, the cost of returning soil from another planet is a rounding error. 9 billion over a decade vs the operating cost of O&G industry as an example, isn't even close. Soil from Mars vs oil from earth. Both are an amazing scientific and technological accomplishment, but one is also historic.
- Fezzik 3y agoNot directly funded by tax payers… the exceptional tax breaks that oil companies have received from our shat government are astronomical.