Re: Spill, baby, spill

Lookout wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion;_ylt=AtlJBMyoyUKLgWa1.QMCltus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTN1bWxyYzI1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDI5L3VzX2xvdWlzaWFuYV9vaWxfcmlnX2V4cGxvc2lvbgRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2d1bGZjb2FzdG9pbA--

Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez

This is what you teabaggers wanted? Or is it just the conservatives
that wanted this?

No one wanted the spill (except perhaps you so you could crow about it), but everyone needs the energy that is produced.

Consider the context before you make your rash judgments:

"...the size and number of oil spills from offshore oil rigs have declined substantially over the past three decades."

"Prior to the Horizon's destruction, the last substantial spill from an offshore rig was in 1969."

"...since 1991, oil tankers have still spilled three times as much oil as offshore platforms and more than twice as much as pipelines."

"Of all the sources of petroleum released into the ocean, including natural seeps of oil, offshore platforms put less oil into the ocean than any other."

"...less than one-one thousandth of 1 percent of the oil produced in U.S. state or federal waters has spilled."

"...even if the oil spilled from the Horizon eventually equals the amount spilled by the infamous Exxon Valdez -- and it has so far leaked less than 14 percent of that -- it will still amount to multiple times less oil than spilled in any of the largest 35 spills from oil tankers since the 1970s."

"There is no question that the Horizon's explosion and collapse is terrible, or that steps should be taken to see that any correctable errors made don't happen again. ... But, from the point of view of the economy, national security and even environmental quality, halting new oil and gas development because of this one isolated incident would be an even worse disaster."

http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-dont-let-deepwater-horizon-deep-six-offshore-drilling/19460956
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