[Zeppelin]

The oil has to come from somewhere. Even strictly from an environmental standpoint, who are we going to trust to do it safer and more environmentally responsibly than ourselves...Chavez? The Saudis? Russia? Hardly...

[Clyde5445]

(((((Palin Ping)))))

[gov_bean_ counter]

Hammond Eve, who did environmental impact studies of offshore drilling for the Interior Department's Minerals Management Service (MMS), said the federal agency never planned for response to an oil spill of this size. "We never imagined that it would happen because the safety measures were supposed to work and prevent it from happening," he said.

Sounds a lot like
These levies weren't designed to withstand a Cat 5 hurricane.

[CedarDave]

As governor and 20 years after the Exxon Valdez she directed the state attorney general to join in a suit for damages. She won.

[frogjerk]

A day after pundit Charles Krauthammer declared “drill, baby, drill” to be history in light of the spill,

We would have never went to the moon or won WWII with this attitude.

[Willie Green]

No matter how horrible the British Petroleum spill proves to be, it won’t change the economic reality. We are putting our economy and our national security at risk when we rely on the likes of Venezuela and Saudi Arabia to get the oil we need.

Although I supported "Drill Baby Drill", I never believed the Oil Industry hype that the global supply of oil was infinite and would remain "cheap" as long as we just kept looking for it.

And it was bad enough when the Oil Lobby supported subsidized ethanol production, which competed against the food industy, driving up corn and cattle prices.

Now BP has severely damaged our gulf seafood industry, and it'll be 15~20 years to recover, no matter how much they spend on "feel good" propaganda projects to make it look like they're cleaning up...

We can't rely on "Drill Baby drill" anymore,
We HAVE to build more nuclear power plants...
AND electrically powered passenger rail and maglev systems.

[RobbyS]

BP thought they had planned for the worst case. But the problem is we don’t know what the worst case is. Off-shore drilling involves tremendous risks, sort of like the kind that a soldier takes when he goes to war. ____t happens. The real question is: why drill? The answer being, because that is where the oil is. Lots of it.

[meadsjn]

A day after pundit Charles Krauthammer declared “drill, baby, drill” to be history in light of the spill, ...

Charles Krauthammer is getting pretty consistent about coming down on the wrong side of issues and history.