Newt Gingrich yesterday on whether new offshore drilling will be a problem: "I don't think so because I think that there was a specific mistake made. I think it can be fixed. It's the first oil well big problem in America since 1969 so I think when people put it in perspective it'll be fine."
We've not been drilling this deep since 1969 so so much for that perspective. There was "a big oil well problem" in the Gulf of Mexico in 1979. And all around the world these rigs blow up and burn all the time. For sure things like this mega-catastrophe don't happen every day but when they do they destroy entire oceans and that's unacceptable.
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