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Originally Posted by Old Tele man
...there's a difference?
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While the end result is the same no matter who/what/how it happened,
the "fact" it happened due to corp greed as opposed to direct anti-USA terrorist aggression totally affects the reaction and consequences of the disaster. "Its was a accident", probally avoidable with proper and ethically corp behavior on BP's part. So the usual, capitalist methods and procedures have been "utilized" to "fix it". Costs being a major factor.
NOW, if it had been a anti-American terrorist attack the current administration would have had the political backing OR political advantage to use ALL available resources to "fix it".
Being born and raised in the North East I am naive when it comes to drilling.
But totally appaled by the lack of distaster planning in place pre-disaster and post disaster.
Didn't the Gulf state learn anything from Katrina? You can't depend on the Fed's to get you out of disaster. DIY is the order of the day. If you want the Revenue, jobs and taxes of off shore drilling, well you better spend some of those Rev's on a dam good disaster recover plan/infastructure because the Fed's are #@@$%@#$% useless!
Libertarian Pete