Replies to post #650789 on Zeev's Turnips Patch-No Politics (ZEEV)

[fabian]

conelda...back on 4-16, you mentioned, "sorry that's PFWRD". We've been puzzled by that ever since and finally decided to ask.
What did you mean?
Maybe it should be obvious, but we're stumped.
thanks,
Fabian

[brightness]

Still sounds like Monday morning quarterbacking to me. Drilling holes on the sea floor and build concrete conduits and steel pipes around them seem to be the standard practice for off-shore drilling. There are 30,000+ oil platforms . . . obviously disasters like what just happened does not happen often. 1 explosion and oil gusher out of 30,000 over several decades is orders of magnitude lower chance than getting killed in car accidents per mile driven. By your logic, it should also be "criminal" for politicians to allow drilling at all; it should also be "criminal" for voters to vote in office politicians who would allow that; it should be "criminal" to be driving cars at all; it should be "criminal" for officials to allow driving at all; it should be "criminal" for voters to vote in politicians who would allow driving. LOL.

Industrial accidents do happen. Yes, even environmentally damaging ones, at least since the day when cavemen set fire to forests in pursuit of their game animals (and the cavewomen who kept fire in the cave and suffered from carbon monoxide poisoning).

I'm not even for or against off-shore drilling. There shouldn't be a national policy either way. The local people should decide what's best for themselves regarding job/economic opportunities vs. cost of living vs. risks.