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When there is a transportation accident, it tends to be big, even though it is just a drop in the proverbial bucket. I am not making excuses, because I wouldn't want a tanker load of crude washing up on my beach either, just saying the safety record is actually pretty darned good.

Thanks for your informative reply.

Your comment makes me think of the similar statements that are inevitably made after a major airline crash. "The most dangerous part of the trip is driving to the airport...safest mode of transportation...blah, blah, blah." Unfortunately, when things do go wrong, they usually are spectacular.

If the public would just stop and think about it, they too would realize that a lot of smart, well-educated, and dedicated people work in the oil industry (and many others) and they have a vested and really personal interest in ensuring their operations are safe, efficient, economical, and environmentally sound.

But, like a lot of other parts of the infrastructure people build their lives upon, they don't think about it until something really spectacularly negative occurs.

Then they are feed with the hysterical, anti-business, pro-radical environmentalism line by the MSM because, quite frankly, that's all they learned in journalism school and in the generally hysterical, liberal, anti-business, pro-radical environmentalism atmosphere that exists on most college campuses these days.

(I sometimes think that undergraduate degrees in journalism should be discontinued and applicants for the journalism certificate/advanced degree must first have attained BAs/BSs in a field they want to report on. Then they might actually know how the industry is organized and works as opposed to buying the critics' propaganda hook, line, and sinker.)

(I sometimes think that undergraduate degrees in journalism should be discontinued and applicants for the journalism certificate/advanced degree must first have attained BAs/BSs in a field they want to report on. Then they might actually know how the industry is organized and works as opposed to buying the critics' propaganda hook, line, and sinker.)

While I agree in principle, I am afraid I would get really bored watching stories about dime store sociology and the latest psychobabble. (8^D)

OTOH, I could go back for a couple of journalism courses and make far better money than I do currently as one of the rare science writers out there....I'd write a tighter bit than these late-night ramblings..