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Originally Posted by Jermyn Davidson
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100430/..._explosion_305
Ok oil drilling poses little threat to the environment.
That is why we should drill in the arctic, drill off the coast of Florida... in fact, I bet if dug deep enough, we'd fine oil at Lake Tahoe!
Let's drill there too!
Besides, it won't be that bad if there is a spill.
We have the technology!
YES WE CAN!!!
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Drilling "deep enough" won't get you to recoverable amounts of petroleum. You also have to be in the right place.
The Exxon Valdez oil spill was something like 4 times larger than this current spill in the Gulf. The immediate effects in Alaska were, of course, terrible. Two years later - everything was back to normal.
Petroleum is a natural by-product of life on this planet. The oceans have ways of healing themselves and cleaning things up naturally. Our modern oil production methods obviously stress that natural balance completely out of whack in the short term - that is why we must be careful.
Besides, the Chinese have oil leases from Cuba that are just a few miles off of Key West. We know that as this basin is developed that the Chinese will be looking out for us, right? No.
And the
second largest oil spill in history was in Mexican waters. Texas and the U.S. spent 10's of millions cleaning up what washed ashore here - but the Mexican government only
laughed at us when we sought compensation. That well kept gushing for over a year.
Knock the American and British oil companies all you want - but I'd much rather have them drilling in my back yard than the Chinese, Cubans or PEMEX.
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