So, I don't want to be a jerk or anything buuuttt...here goes. Everyone is saying that the BP spill/explosion/disaster is the Three Mile Island of off-shore drilling, and that makes sense. Given that analogy, the conclusion is that off-shore drilling will become politically difficult and may be banned altogether.
While I am an environmentalist and all, there is one question that comes to mind. Has anyone thought that perhaps it would be better to just go ahead and get all the off-shore drilling over with now? I mean, the whole Gulf of Mexico is already screwed up, and destined to be screwed up for quite a while. I think the only argument against my idea would be if you sincerely believe that someday very soon we will completely wean ourselves off of oil as a society, and therefore could leave the Gulf untouched from now on. Since that is unlikely to happen, we will drill there eventually. Maybe not in the next few years, but someday the price will be so high, and oil so scare, that we will be desperate. So why not go gangbusters with the off-shore drilling and get it over with while the water's still dirty?
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I love it! And you know, this is why you and me will never get elected office. We are too edgy! Politicians will not dare to suggest it.
Btw, NPR.org has this headline right now. Read it and see for yourself why politicians can just pretend they don't understand why private corporations exist:
"The president said BP should not waste millions of dollars on advertising and dividend payments when the money would be better spent on people suffering from the spill."
LOL we are so edgy. We should have started a girl punk band in college! :)
And Obama will probably get his wish that BP's dividend will get cut... I just assume it will because otherwise it would be too easy to just buy their stock right now and make a whole bunch of money. The market is just never that easy!
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