I suppose it’s on the downside now – the leak is finally capped and cemented. The oil now dribbling away, becoming part of our new world…
A couple of politicians who know nothing of science or engineering looking pretty foolish [nothing new]. Hopefully people will recall their irresponsible ranting down the road…
We’ve presumably learned a lot about how to deal with such things, but it’s more important to learn how to prevent them. I think the lesson is going to turn out to be enforcing the rules we already have…
Indeed, we’d payed the government to set up and support the Minerals Management Agency and populated it with reasonably well compensated careerist petty bureaucrats who snorted cocaine and engaged in sexual relations with the rapacious, dissolute and scrofulous members of the supposedly regulated industry…people whose sole interest and motive was profit, driven by fundamentals like paying the rent and making the car (and perhaps boat) payment who themselves were led by “big” people who were not interested in anything other than “results”…no excuses please, just get the permits and we don’t much care how you do it. It’s always the same….there is a resource, there are those who will exploit and the consequences be damned. The recently former CEO of BP is probably on his boat licking his wounds this very moment. At least he’s got his life back eh? And all the people that we had to fire from MMA – they’re covered by their union like we would not prefer to believe. Probably should have kept them on and given them jobs slopping cells at some federal pen at 80 thousand a year.