Rant..kind of on oil drilling
Sometimes I get asked how I can suport offshore drillinig.
Besides the money that might be put in my pocket, I have a very good reason.
It's the lesser of the two evils.
Really, if we don't drill there in there pockets of open ocean I guess I could call them, then guess what? Someone else will.
Did you know that up here in Alaska, our coast gaurd reported the the Chinese have been looking around an area where oil companies have been wanting to drill, but the goverment has been twiddling their thumbs on. Same with Russia.
So we have poeple here in the USA going "You can't drill because your safety standards, might not be good enough." and holding up approval, but the have nothing to say (or do they even know or care) that these other countries, with less safety stanards are planning to drill in those spots if we don't. And most of them don't even have clean up equipement or anything like that. If they were to have a spill, they'd just go "Crap, sorry Alaska." Sure their might be some fee placed in by UN or something, but really, the USA would be left with the clean up and everything else.
So let's have the best and safety and less worries with knowing if anything bad did happen, at less there would be something done about it.
Besides the money that might be put in my pocket, I have a very good reason.
It's the lesser of the two evils.
Really, if we don't drill there in there pockets of open ocean I guess I could call them, then guess what? Someone else will.
Did you know that up here in Alaska, our coast gaurd reported the the Chinese have been looking around an area where oil companies have been wanting to drill, but the goverment has been twiddling their thumbs on. Same with Russia.
So we have poeple here in the USA going "You can't drill because your safety standards, might not be good enough." and holding up approval, but the have nothing to say (or do they even know or care) that these other countries, with less safety stanards are planning to drill in those spots if we don't. And most of them don't even have clean up equipement or anything like that. If they were to have a spill, they'd just go "Crap, sorry Alaska." Sure their might be some fee placed in by UN or something, but really, the USA would be left with the clean up and everything else.
So let's have the best and safety and less worries with knowing if anything bad did happen, at less there would be something done about it.