re: #477 Decatur Deb

I feel for the oil workers, just as I feel for the fishermen I’ve known at Bayou le Batre. The problem is that we have to know that the industry conditions, those which produced that stupid BP decision, are not built in to the other companies.

The fishermen will be back to work within a year of the final shut off, if they even have to wait that long. Their suffering is real, but a tiny fraction of the losses from the moratorium which will last a decade at least and involve far more money.