Question by imnoangel512: Why are people with no prior knowledge of how oil rigs work suddenly are jumping on the “no drill” bandwagon?
My dad worked oil rigs all of his life and yes they are a dangerous environment and that is why they have high safety standards.
I live along the gulf coast and work in an industry that will be greatly affected by this but even I know you can’t stop drilling because of a once in a two hundred year or more accident. Look we have had oil rigs off shore drilling for well over 20 years with no incident or accident. Besides if we don’t drill there and try to get oil guess who will, russia, venezuela and a host of other countries who realize the abundance of oil deposits in the gulf. I bet those companies working for other countries don’t have the safety standards we do and probably wouldn’t pay for clean up if their drilling affected our environment. So who would you rather have drilling the US or Russia?
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Answer by Morgan
It’s due to a shocking lack of intelligence on their part.
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