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UPDATED - Another oil rig explodes in Gulf; Coast Guard reports no spill
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Oh I know, but I just see some idiot standing up going "See! Two rigs within 6 months! It's time to stop this offshore oil nonsense altogether!"
Well we have to balance out the idiots who are standing up and going "The environmentalists did it!".
Wait that guy has a radio show.
There are a little more than a dozen active drilling sites in the gulf. It wouldn't effect production, refinement or transportation.
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Didn't know anyone in power wanted to shut down the oil industry.
And allowing the drilling platforms to keep going without proper security measures is pretty much a death sentence for the fishing industry.
And Louisiana, hell my girlfriend's father works offshore, my uncle works at a chemical plant down the road that relies on the petrochemical industry and my father works for a company that does testing on petrochemicals.
Good thing neither of them work in the fishing or tourism industry.
Actually I think we had plenty of regulators and the regulations weren't so bad (they could certainly be better though)
I think the problem is the people responsible for the regulations were hired specifically because they didn't believe the government should regulate business. Obviously if you hire a Vegan to work in a slaughterhouse, they're probably going to do a shitty job
I'm pretty sure the fishing industry is reliant on having gasoline. Boats don't power themselves, and the fish don't travel under their own power to be processed and arrive in stores or restaurants
Well in that case, probably too good of a job.
We don't need regulation.
There's like a one in a million chance for this to occur. Like it's statistically impossible. The fact that it's happened twice in as many months is meaningless, we shouldn't reform regulations over this for the same reason we shouldn't give the USDA or FDA their teeth back just because a few million people got salmonella and 80% of our chicken is contaminated.
Pure hyperbole, it's only 66% (although some brands like tyson are between 80 and 90%)
So nothing to worry about
In other words, you can't create new regulations just because of a few bad eggs.
Even if that's exactly what regulation is there to fucking do.
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Those are platforms. Platforms can have multiple wells.
A moratorium on all offshore drilling would affect those in US waters.
No one else did, but I appreciate this joke.
Everyone knows government regulation of industry is foul.
It wasn't a blanket ban, no matter what Fox told you.
If you think he's misunderstood what the moratorium would entail, it'd be nicer to just attempt to point him in the right direction.
No one in power wants to cut off our oil supply.
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Fair enough, my mistake.
I know. It was only for deep water drilling and platforms.
But, you know, those platforms employ people.
Also, lol at the not even remotely transparent jab at me with the FOX thing.
Just.....uhhh...don't eat raw chicken.
It isn't too hard.
It was for new wells only.
Glad someone did
It not only affected new wells, but wells that were in the process of completion.
Which are new wells.
And cut 20,000 jobs.
If you think the ban did damage to your families finances, just be glad you're not a hotel owner or fisherman in Louisiana right now.
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