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To: Road Walker who wrote (24802)	1/11/2011 3:28:57 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86355

American companies operating in the gulf have a very good record of safety. One major spill in decades. They don't have a problem with people trying to steal oil by breaking pipelines, recovering what can be recovered and letting the rest spill. They don't have the general level of poverty and poor infrastructure and violence that Nigeria has. Generally the more production is pushed to the third world by restrictions on drilling here, the more environmental damage you will get from the drilling. Also once you've drilled, and gotten the oil out of the ground, you have to transport it, transporting from the other side of the world causes additional spills and damage.