"year after year the whackjobs in Calif burns a couple hundred thousand acres of timberland, killing every creature in its path."
Hello? Lightning strikes setting fires during drought season? The occasional off road vehicle striking a rock and sparking a fire in a parched brush area? The occasional idiot tossing a lit cigarette out of a car on the freeway? Yes, the occasional arsonist or bored teenager, but you get that anywhere.
Have you ever been to California in the summer? Remember the Mamas & Papas song with the lyrics "It never rains in California"? When it does rain more in the winter, that leads to more plant growth and more dry tinder in the summer.
How are these "whackjobs" relevant to a bunch of highly paid engineers monitoring a drilling operation 24/7 possibly trying to shave $500,000 a day to get the floating rig to leave when there were signs of trouble rather than spend more time to do it right? Somebody that was contracted to pour concrete in the deep ocean, but perhaps botched the job?
Who are the "whackjobs"?
Having the companies point fingers at each other in front of Congress doesn't sound like business as usual anywhere.
Plus, that's light crude they could sell for a premium, which is why they drilled a mile deep to get it.
Why they didn't have a Plan B (or C or D or A...) in place at the beginning is the larger question.
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