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To: Brumar89 who wrote (573290)	6/23/2010 4:25:04 PM
From: tejek	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575008

Yeah, but there's guys making and shipping the pipe they drill with, the mud, all their equipment, running the boats and helicopters to the rigs. Then there's the jobs depending on the workers incomes to pay their bills. I still bet its not more than a few thousand.

To: Brumar89 who wrote (573290)	6/23/2010 5:58:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	1 Recommendation Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575008

Brumar, > I still come back to why shut down ANYONE's job unless you have a good reason. And the administration hasn't made a case for it. What's wrong with the shutdown? Gotta make sure something bad like this doesn't happen again. Can't accept the industry's word that things will be "just fine" right now. It's like grounding the planes in Europe because of the volcanic ash. Sure, it caused a ton of inconvenience (not to mention that Rolling Stone article on McChrystal), but imagine if one plane went down because of the ash. Then people would be asking why the planes weren't grounded sooner. Better to be safe than sorry. Tenchusatsu