re: #209 avanti

Oddly, most of the flack coming from the right involves the six month suspension of drilling. It’s better to keep folks working on rigs, and screw the risks of yet another disaster I guess.

Yes.
There have been decades of drilling with no incident.
Decades.
So, now we should punish all the companies who have managed to drill safely?

There have been wells drilled in 10,000 feet of water, safely.

BP IGNORED standard warning signs of problems, and even test results showing there were problems, they were so anxious to finish this well and move on to save some money.

And avanti, it isn’t just the people working on the rigs. There are all sorts of businesses that exist to SUPPORT the oil industry - supply boats, helicopters, food supply, catering, restaurants, hotels … all of those businesses are done for, and people out of work.

The impact of this is huge. No one seems to understand that.