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When a plane crashes you don't shut down all the airlines while you investigate the cause. We don't shut down our school system when a bus is in an accident.
Obama is pandering to the far left and is going to totally ruin our economy. What he should be doing is tightening regulations. He should be insisting that all rigs have at least two relief wells instead of none. This would create tens of thousands of jobs instead of destroying jobs. This ban, if it lasts very long will cause these oil companies to pick up and leave, never to return. The need for oil is not going away anytime soon. I prefer we use our own and keep the money here and out of the hands of our enemies. Drill baby drill. Someones going to anyway. Why not us?
He is wasting this crisis. He should be using it to create jobs.
I love this argument.... They will ground all of a particular class of airplane or an airline if an initial accident investigation suggests a design flaw or sloppy maintenance practices. We had sloppy approval practices that the MMS. It isn't unreasonable to stop all deep, off-shore drilling. No one is pandering to the far left or ruining the US economy. The suspension of offshore drilling has far, far, far less economic impact than had we not bailed out Detroit... so, hopefully, as a matter of consistency you are not making the economic impact argument here and were all against the Detroit bailout there....
That all said, a better approach would be an immediate and thorough government audit of all deep offshore drilling activities with a quick trigger on license suspensions for any significant violations.
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