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I wonder how many conservatives live on the gulf coast who's livelyhood and way of life is being threatend by this leak. Look I don't think we should stop drilling offshore but we have got to take this incident seriously. They have got to make sure that if an accident like this takes place in the future that there is a way to stop the leak. Right now the plan thay have is going to take to long and could ruin areas of the gulf coast from Texas to Florida And what of the shrimp, and fishing industry? Do conservatives care about sport fishing and waterfowl hunting. What about the tourism industry? Closing down beaches for who knows how long.
This is not a Conservative or liberal issue. Its a tragedy for all of us.
And what's the posibility that more oil is leaking than they are letting on?
The Deepwater Horizon was in the process of capping the well when the blow-out occurred. It's a common problem, nothing new here. The Timor Sea incident leaked for 10 weeks, where are your threads about that?
This is just the 10 car pile up you hear about only because it's rare. What you don't realize and like me probably don't care about are the many general accidents which occur all the time and are routien.
Blow outs happen, and they usually occur during this same transitional period. They leak, sometimes for weeks, sometimes the slick is hundreds of miles wide, thousands of barrels emptied into the sea...but you never hear about it unless some politician is about to make policy and needs a news story to shape public opinion.
Case in point: http://whitehouse.blogs.foxnews.com/2010/04/29/oil-rig-accident-could-impact-future-oil-exploration/
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