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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: tejek who wrote (75849)	5/24/2010 7:27:17 PM
From: koan	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 149317

>>The federal agency responsible for regulating offshore oil drilling repeatedly ignored warnings from government scientists about environmental risks in its push to approve energy exploration activities quickly, according to numerous documents and interviews. This is a ridiculous statement. Of course there is risk......there is risk crossing the street. Tell us something we didn't know.<< Using logic, there is acceptable risk and unacceptable risk. If one crosses the street on a red light that is different from crossing the street on a green light. Simple logic, it seems to me, says that we should never do anything that can cause this much damage, if we cannot acceptably mitigate the damage we know sooner or later will happen. One of these days we are going to have a nuclear war or a nuclear power plant is going to blow up. In both cases that is unacceptable risk as the damage will be catastrophic beyond what most people can comprehend. And make no mistake, statisticians say both nuclear war and a nuclear power plant blow up are foregone conclusions eventually. A deep water oil well was bound to blow up one day and here we are with a totally unacceptable response. Now watch how much damage is eventually manifested by this oil spill blow up and tell me if drilling in deep water is an acceptable risk?