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FWIW, I've got no sympathy what so ever for BP. This is a dangerous and costly exercise tapping oil but the profits far outweigh the costs.

That they didn't have a system in place to overide the human element has now cost lives of people and livelyhoods of many, let alone the costs to the environment.

As far as BP goes though, nothing hurts more to a company than lost profits and who knows what the final bill will be.

At least other oil companies may now start re-evaluating their Operational Procedures to ensure this won't happen again. To be honest, it was always going to happen somewhere cos it's happened before but now those who give the final stamp of approval may now just be a little bit more careful.

For instance, over our way the oil companies have wanted to explore and possibly drill near "the great barrier reef". I somehow don't think they would be that dumb to even look at it now.

The costs are just way too high.



Nah Staffo, the costs are never too high!

Ya see, this kind'a talk is exactly the reason jobs are in jeopardy!

Uh huh! I mean I just read somewhere(saaay, maybe it was even in this thread somewhere) that puttin' any kind'a restraints on folks who make all those jobs out there is never a good idea.

Uh huh! Don't you know the boss man is always right!

Uh huh! And so what IF they start drillin' on that there Great Barrier Reef o' yours down there, and so what IF somethin' bad happens, like say the boss man says somethin' like, "Eeh! Just ignore those pieces of blow-out valve rubber that are comin' up the well right now! Everything is juuuuust fine! Keep on drillin', boys!"

I mean, you don't wanna put any kind'a restraints of "intelligent" decision making like THAT, right?! And besides, time IS money, ya know!

And besides, puttin' any kind'a restraints on the boss man COULD cost us jobs!

And besides, these spills happen ALL the time, and so that kind'a sort'a makes this kind'a sort'a okay!(well, at least that's another thing I've heard recently, anyway)

And hey, let's say somethin' bad DOES happen down there on that there Great Barrier Reef of yours! Who's really hurt in such a thing anyway, right?! Just some of those pretty little fishes and some of that coral y'all got down there! And hey, who cares about those pretty little fishes and that coral anyway, right?!

(oh and besides, these here motorcycles of ours don't run on WATER, ya know!!!...especially the big ol' loud ones that grab everybody's attention while they're goin' down the road!)

Yep! Just like a good Single Malt Scotch, you might call me "an acquired taste" TOO.(among the many OTHER things you may care to call me, of course)