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Originally Posted by redwitch
Pats, the "do-gooders" (and I'm very proud to be one of them) didn't want deep water offshore drilling -- we flat didn't want any offshore drilling. If they could lay pipelines and underground cables from Europe to the USA, they surely could have laid pipelines that could bring the oil to the shore rather than get it from the rigs. That was the original goal of most of us do-gooders. This tragic disaster was always foreseeable (think Santa Barbara in 1969) -- offshore rigs are MUCH cheaper than laying the underground/water pipelines, which could have been laid much closer to shore and, thus, much more easily repaired. Put the blame where it belongs -- on the greed of those who wanted the easiest and cheapest way out regardless of the ultimate cost.
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If they let them drill on our own soil instead of over a mile deep in the ocean this would not have happened, therefore the "do-gooders" are responsible for this catastrophe.
Until they invent some other energy (nuclear comes to mind) we have to use petroleum products. We have over a hundred years of petro under USA soil. To do otherwise is pure folly.