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Louve00 -> RE: But BP said it was all gone (2/20/2011 9:15:42 AM)
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Ok, I can't believe I'm going to say this, but here goes. As much as I too, disagreed with Sanity's logic on "where the oil and dispersant was" and "what would be the outcome", I have to say my biggest beef was with him making it a polical thing. If you agreed that the oil slick didn't vanish, and if you thought there would be serious after-effects as a result, than Sanity was into pointing his finger at you and calling you a libtard/dem/whatever the latest and greatest insult is to a political party is, these days.
If you thought deep water drilling for oil should carry on as usual, then you were a republican, who had to take pity on the liberals who "didn't get it". My whole fear is there have been underwater drilling disasters in waters of the gulf that were not as deep as this latest one in the deep waters of the gulf. And my point of being FOR putting a halt for deep water drilling was that, while these huge oil companies make all their money and people cry "yay for capitalism" and "everyone has a right to earn money", was while they were and still are no doubtedly making hand over fist money in big oil, they don't want to USE some of that money to UNDERSTAND the implications and problems that can occur with drilling in deep waters. They don't want to SPEND that money their drilling made them to make it a safer operation and be a responsible business man about it.
They just want to criticize Obama for putting it on hold and it still hasn't dawned on anyone that if an oil company did take the time to actually do some studies and research and be willing to take the extra money to make it a safe operation, instead of screaming and crying like babies that the gov't wants to regulate them because they don't want to take responsibility and accountability to regulate themselves, the gov't may just listen to the proof, take the time to look and see they have indeed put safety precautions in place and give a go ahead.
I don't believe Sanity actually thought it just "vanished". If he did, then I gave him credit he shouldn't have gotten. What I despised about the whole thing was there was no accountability and responsibility to continue the operation safely. It was more important (in the name of capitalism [8|]) to just keep on drilling ignorantly...making as much money as you could and earning BIG money hand over fist...without taking responsibility or even being able to know how to stop a disaster should it happen (and the disaster happened, annd no one knew how to stop it...and an even bigger and was, it had happened 30 something years earlier in the gulf just in more shallow water, they still didnt know how to stop it and still used the same tactics proven to be unsuccessful then with the deep water accident), which takes putting a little bit of that made money into R&D to make it even better....and safer. Without spending money to gain knowledge of how to drill safely...especially in deep water...I still think Obama made the right decision by putting the brakes on it all. IF an oil company wants to take the time to spend on R&D effectively, I too would re-think my position on my opinion on it all. But as far as I know, despite the disaster, that is yet to start happening. People just want to argue that Obama was wrong for stopping it...and quite frankly I view that not as a republican or polical thing, but as a responsible thing.
If big oil won't take precautions to do a job safely and without adversely effecting peoples' lives just for the sake of money, then someone has to save us from ourselves.
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