The Deep Water Drilling Moratorium

I guess there is something "romantic" about working an oil rig.  It pays well. Is a horribly dangerous job and if things go wrong you are either baked by flames, plunged into a burning ocean, or simply vaporized by the initial blast. Lovely....oh and did I mention hurricanes?

Some stuff just happens.  You can't help it and it is what nature does. Things happen. Then there are the things that are the result of bad technology or sloppy work. Last in this "gamut of reasons" is greed.  It is the "I can plaster your wall or I can put a skim coat over drywall and you might not know it for a while".

Here are the salient facts on the "moratorium" in the Gulf:  "...that no economic meltdown occurred. The number of lost jobs can be measured in the hundreds, not thousands, oil production is down modestly and the widely feared exodus of drilling rigs has not materialized. All but two of the 33 deep-water rigs drilling in the gulf before the BP explosion are still there, many with standby crews."

So another article for spin. Another reason for politicians and the greedy to lie. I grow weary.