Comments on: Five Years Ago

By: Bryan

Bryan — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 01:16:46 +0000

The oil companies lie and the regulators do nothing. That’s the way the politicians want it, because if there were actual regulation a source of ‘campaign funding’ would dry up.

The entire system is designed to protect the crooks and incompetents.

By: Steve Bates

Steve Bates — Wed, 22 Apr 2015 01:08:02 +0000

And believe me, Badtux, I’ve worked among the people who made and still make those (bad) decisions, and they are arrogantly unenlightened and eternally unrepentant. Expect more of same.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Tue, 21 Apr 2015 21:42:34 +0000

And the sad thing is that they’re drilling even deeper in the Gulf now, in areas even more dangerous than where the Deepwater Horizon exploded, and have no better ways of handling a spill today than when the Deepwater Horizon exploded.