Drill Here, Drill Now

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Oil rig creating one of the worst man made ecological disasters of all time...same thing as a plane crash.
 
Yeah, lets not forget the already existing billion dollars in deficit from the last government.
 
60% of BP's donations went to republican candidates.


But go ahead and troll away, I understand that little fact might not sit well for bashing our president.
 
On that same account, we shouldn't hold our breath and swim under water. If God wanted us to do that, He would have given us gills.

We shouldn't go out to sea on boats. If God wanted us out that far, He would have made us fish. We shouldn't drive long distances in short amounts of time in our automobiles. If God wanted us to traverse long distances in a short amount of time, He would have made us cheetahs.
 
What's the negative about learning from mistakes except of course the mistake that you are going to learn from?
 
No one's forgetting about it, but you seem to be forgetting about how your party is making things worse, not better. As long as we have that kind of partisan hackery going on we can be assured that things will continue to get worse.
 
Here's the thing -- the less we drill, given that demand will be pretty much the same either way, the more some other country will have to drill. This is okay in some ways (perhaps we will have more untapped resources in the future). But if you care about the environment, it's a bad thing. Because in any human enterprise there will be accidents; it's not if, it's when.

This spill will be stopped and cleaned up. The U.S. cleaned up Valdez; the U.S. cleaned up the Kuwaiti oil fires. Now does anyone really think that Mexico, Venezuela, Saudi Arabia, or China cares as much as the United States about cleaning up environmental damage, or has the same kind of resources to devote to the task?
 
You might just assume learning from mistakes means there will never be another mistake...or that what you learn is globally applied.

I would agree if it's a simple mistake. With large mistakes it gets dangerous to say "ha, we're genius....learn from the mistake but keep doing it". That can lead to some very bad places where mistakes with whatever you're doing keep happening. Leading to terrible disaster after terrible disaster.
 
They are not making things worse. That's what I meant by Republicans only caring about the short term. Obama has changed quite a few things.
 
There will always be mistakes no matter what we do. All we can do is learn from them and try to prevent the same mistake in the future and plan for the ones we can think of as possibilities. This forces innovation and new technology and is much better than throwing your hands up in the air and saying I fucking quit because there could be an accident.
 
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republicans take massive donations from big oil...thats unpossible
 
We haven't even seen the full effect of his changes yet.
Way better attitude than the Republicunts attitude of not doing anything and hoping for the best while shit got worse.
 
Individually, he received the most donations and lobbying dollars from them over the past 20 years, whether we are speaking of Democrats or Republicans. I fail to see what this has to do with Republican as a whole.
 
Maybe.
But if we have 100 terrible mistakes in a row...you shouldn't just keep smacking yourself in the face looking for a good way to do it and hope R/D is cost effective enough to cover potential mistakes. Some companies in a free market will take the risk of a mistake for a huge reward.

There is no gaurantee you can learn or have learned. There is no gaurantee the same mistake won't happen again. Or a new mistake won't happen with the fix for the old mistake.

Nothing is 100% safe...and if the gravity of the mistake associated with it is too high for the reward....we should consider effective means of blocking mistakes from happening altogether.
 
$71,000 has been the max amount for any individual politician over the past 20 years to come from BP.
 
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