One of the missing elements in the T-P's consideration is the immorality of continued deep water drilling when no one has a clue how to establish a resilient technology applyed by resilient institutions. Rather touting their ability to play claims, BP should be using it's full page adds in the T-P to tell us how they plan to prevent such a disasterous spill next time.
From another moral perspective, demanding preamature drilling is equivilent to saying that Hitler's death camps were a jobs program whose continuence was justified by the guards' payrolls as well as those that manufactured the gas. If economics trumps morality we are indeed in deep trouble.
The Times-Picayune continues to ignore the undisputable fact that BP was culturally (morally) incapable of putting safety first and that it must go through a major cultural transfomation before its should be trusted with any kind of technology. When that occurs deep Gulf oil with be so costly because companies will have to have real prevention and real response resources in place which none of them do now.
Posted on Obama administration has drilling moratorium myopia: An editorial on June 20, 2010, 2:19PM
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