"Drilling Disasters Can't Happen Here"

[GreenPartyVoter]

You know, there are a lot of serious people looking at, "Are there ways that we can do drilling and we can do nuclear that are--that are nowhere near as risky as what they were 10 or 15 or 20 years ago?" Offshore drilling today is a lot more safer, in many ways, environmentally, today than it was 20 years ago.
--David Gergen, CNN's Situation Room (3/31/10)

Some Americans have an opinion of offshore drilling that was first formed decades ago with those pictures of oil on the beaches in Santa Barbara, California. Others see it differently. They say time and technology have changed things. They say in order to lessen our dependence on foreign oil and keep gas prices low, we've got to bring more of it out of the ground and from under the sea.
--Brian Williams, NBC Nightly News (3/31/10)

The technology of oil drilling has made huge advances.... The time has come for my fellow environmentalists to reassess their stand on offshore oil. It is not clear that the risks of offshore oil drilling still outweigh the benefits. The risk of oil spills in the United States is quite low.
--Eric Smith, Washington Post op-ed (4/2/10)

Some of the most ironic objections come from those who say offshore exploration will destroy beaches and coastlines, citing the devastating 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska as an example. The last serious spill from a drilling accident in U.S. waters was in 1969, off Santa Barbara, California.
--USA Today editorial (4/2/10)

More quotes here: http://www.fair.org/index.php

[tblue]

1. and have they learned?

Doubt it.

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. Agreed.

[roguevalley]

11. a couple of guys were talking to my nephew who is a merchant

marine on rig tender barges for inlet oil rigs. they said a couple of our deep water rigs are losing their variances here because no one wants the stain of being the one who gave them if they pop. the anna and a couple of others are in trouble of being shut down I think. Good news for the world that alaska, the oil babylon of america is using its head.

[joeybee12]

3. Amazing, and what's truly appalling is that after this most of these bozos

will still be claiming the same thing.

[GreenPartyVoter]

4. And if they do, I think we can count on FAIR to document it.

[Scurrilous]

5. K & R

:thumbsup:

[guitar man]

6. ugh

'The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot possibly go wrong is that when a thing that cannot possibly go wrong goes wrong it usually turns out to be impossible to get at or repair.'

Douglas Adams (1952 - 2001)

[GreenPartyVoter]

7. He was such a wise man. Funny and wise.

[guitar man]

8. indeed he was

And his statement is spot on regarding the oil disaster in the Gulf. :(

[GreenPartyVoter]

13. Sure is.

[mikelgb]

9. yeah who was the first asshole to pull that canard out?

[jtrockville]

10. Chu (on Maddow last night) said pretty much the same thing.

Something like (paraphrased): "It's unlikely such an event would ever happen again."

Yeah right.

[GreenPartyVoter]

12. Such reassuring words.

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