While we are busy pointing fingers with regard to the Gulf oil disaster, has anyone asked why the hey they have to drill a mile deep?

• Update: after listening to the talk of the day as relates to this Gulf oil problem, Midknight Review believes the deep water well should be destroyed. It appears that BP is trying to avoid the obvious - the need to destroy this deep water well and, thus, effectively shut off the flow of oil into the deep Gulf waters that is larger (volume wise) than the flow of water over Niagara Falls in 3.5 seconds. You say, "Just 3.5 or 4 seconds? Is this really a big deal?" What we are saying, in terms of giving this mess a context, is this: if you stood at the brink of Niagara and watched the amount of water flowing over the falls for 4 seconds ("one thousand one, one thousand two, one thousand three, one thousand four) -- a huge visual -- well, that is the amount of oil being passed into the open waters of the Gulf per day. The outlet of this well needs to be destroyed as BP moves on to a different site. Certainly, this will cost the oil company hundreds of millions of dollars but they may be looking at a trillion or more in clean up expenses and law suits if this things is not taken care of soon. --- jds
  

Now, for our original posting:

Solutions to the Gulf oil spill quadruple with a reduction in the depth required to drill for oil. Why are these rigs "out there" in the Gulf, 30, 40, 50, 60 miles from the shore-line? BECAUSE OF RADICALIZED ENVIRONMENTALISM. Could the problem have been avoided? Midknight Review thinks, "Absolutely." But understand this: the problems involved with the Gulf oil spill include the fact that BP had to build this super derrick more than 50 miles off-shore. At that off-shore distance, the bottom of the ocean is more than a mile deep and the well, itself, is another 35,000 feet (6 miles !!) down. What environmentalism has succeeded in doing, over the years, is to pass such regressive legislation as to make events of this nature all the more catastrophic and "frequent." The very demographic detailing the location of this BP derrick demands that SOONER OR LATER, there will be an an epic disaster. Guaranteed, with all the congressional investigations, no one will even hint at a review of the more idiotic regulations and requirements specifically related to this problem.

Look, people cheat, people lie and people can accomplish the seeming impossible. When people cheat, we need to be able to fix the resulting problems. Crooks and liars abound on sides of any geo/political equation. It is not just the evil oil barons that have run amuck, here. Some one needs to ask, "have environmental rules and regulations played a role in the expanding Gulf problem ??

BP is the most visibly "green" oil company operating in this country. No one spends more money touting a green agenda than does BP. The company has given millions to Obama and his minion politicians. What role did their money play in the creation of this problem? Government regulations abound but [some] were ignored in this particular case. Why and and to what extent is this systemic to federal policy (that which was ignored occurred before Obama took his orifice to Washington) ? To what extent has the location of the BP derrick complicated the problem of capping and recovery? All questions that need to be asked and answered, all questions that, in this Obama class warfare climate, will not be asked with a view to comprehensive solution.

Finally, the right-wing needs to mount its own investigation or exercise a heavy hand in the coming hearings. If big business is going to partner with the conservative right, it needs to be an honorable partner. The day of the "free ride" for big business is over. . . . . . . and we are talking more about "perception" than reality, I think. The people of this country need to SEE the conservative right thoroughly involved in all aspects of the righting of this environmental wrong. Perception is reality.
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