Administration bans deep water drilling while other countries expand.

[boardjnky4]

There is obviously ZERO accountability in the safety procedures if a guy just takes the drillers word for the so-called “third test”. The article certainly makes it seem like he got down to the the drilling platform and the workers told them they did it and it looked good, even though the pressure gauges never moved a single bit.

He didn’t double check anything?
No report on the numbers that came back?
Nothing in writing?

Come on now. There are human lives and a MASSIVE ecosystem at stake, and the best you have, is word of mouth? GTFO with that shit. There needs to be a STRICT formal process.

[PureXTC]

Why was deep water oil drilling the standard int he first place? If we were allowed to drill closer to shore , in shallower watter, could this entire problem have been contained easier? Why haven’t we approved more on shore oil drilling? Why don’t we also approve more nuclear energy plants to easy the diesel powered plants and even cancel them out?

Democrats and hippies, thats why.

[Joe]

Slowest disaster ever?

Yeah, drilling anywhere new offshore is dead for at least the next 20 years, and I hate to say it but it probably should be if this is the best they can do. A pretty much flawless record drilling in the gulf for all these years and just as we’re about to get expanded drilling rights they fuck it up royally.

It will be interesting to see what the root cause analysis shows happened to all the various safety systems that are supposed to prevent a massive leak like this. It amazes me that with all the technology we have that we can’t find a way to turn off a 5000 barrel a day leak. Someone didn’t plan for this ahead of time? Apparently plan A was the only plan they had. Plan B was basically to cruise around in boats screaming “IT’S EVERYWHERE!”. :picard:

Good to see Jay has gone from the pragmatic, common sense view on this issue to the Republican party line in about a month :tup: Perhaps you guys would like to join that idiot Congressman in apologizing to BP as well because Obama is mean to them?