Hetland
Contributor
Before the oil leak (gusher) is stopped our government is talking about stopping pretty much all offshore drilling present and future below 500 feet for 6 months or longer!
Maybe if the !@#$% oil companies KNEW how to prevent or fix the their own cluster!@#$s then they could be trusted to drill deeper than 500ft. Obviously they can't handle their own business. If a roofer leaves a 6x6 hole in your roof are you going to invite him to your mom's house to do some work, or are you going to make sure the next guy knows how to handle the job?
If you want oil then you have to accept the risks of getting it but have a viable plan of action in case a spill happens.
That is the point of the closure. OBVIOUSLY BP DID NOT HAVE A VIABLE PLAN OF ACTION AND STILL DOESN'T.
How are we going to stop our dependence on foreign oil?
We pay the same for a barrel of crude no matter where it comes from...
and last I checked, BP IS "Foreign Oil".
Transocean was founded in Louisiana, but recently moved it's headquarters to Switzerland. Of course they also keep an office in the Caymans so they don't have to pay all those pesky taxes.
Even Halliburton has it's "co-headquarters" in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. They maintain a "headquarters" in Texas, but the Chairman and CEO works and lives in Dubai.
If this isn't "Foreign Oil", then what is?
What about all the jobs ( US citizens) that this will destroy?
Worried about how the jobs of oil workers will be affected for six months? You do understand that 1/3 of the Gulf is closed today, and that the hydrocarbons are into the food chain, and that every coastal community from Louisiana to Florida will be impacted. I'm not just talking condo owners or real estate agents, I'm talking restaurant and hotel staffs, retail workers, fishermen, seafood processors, boat manufacturers, lifeguards, mechanics, marina personnel, charter employees, dive shops, grocery stores, even police, fire and municipal employees will be f##4ed. Not for six months, but for YEARS, possibly decades. This thing will KILL more than the brown pelican.
All this same EXACT CRAP happened in 1979 in Mexico in only 200 ft of water, and it took them 9 MONTHS to close the well. You think that the folks drilling the holes (transocean was drilling THAT hole too) would have learned something by now? No, they are using the same methods, in the same order, with the same failures.