That's a fair assessment, for the most part. This kind of irresponsible, bullshit spill (which I'm personally pissed about) brings up a lot of doubt about free markets in me and a lot of people. And rightfully so. At the end of the day, free markets (which is not what this was!) are dangerous and, well... free.

More of this can happen under a free market. It's not foolproof.

But remember, this oil spill happened under regulation, and I'm more than sure we'd be seeing the same incident in a free market.

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But remember, this oil spill happened under regulation


Actually, this looks like another case of self-regulation. Sure, there is a department that's supposed to regulate them, but anti-regulatory politicians stuffed it with people from the industry, who had no interest in oversight or regulatory enforcement.

The US really has a severe cultural problem with this whole anti-regulatory free market nonsense. It gets in the way of us putting in place common sense safety requirements, and our failure to do so leads to disaster after disaster, and still the apologists come out every time to say "see, this disastrous result of lax regulation proves that we need less regulation!"

It's good to hear that this gives you some doubt.

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But remember, this oil spill happened under regulation, and I'm more than sure we'd be seeing the same incident in a free market.


For Heaven's sake!

Would you listen to yourself?

What did you just say?

Which is it?

And when and where was this free market?

Government penis tastes delicious, I suppose.

PR departments need to die a horrible death, but they won't cause 90% of the time when they put a cherry on top of the plop of horse shit they're trying to feed the public, it gets swallowed whole. This is how blatant their lies have to be and how horrible the tragedy before people start questioning what's going on. I always like reading the CNN comments because I hate my brain because it gives me a glimpse at what some of the different segments of the population think. And still there are people who think BP has done nothing wrong.

evryone watched the 60minutes video right? The one where it was revealed they used a faulty Blowout preventer, faked the pressure (integrity) tests, and skipped safety procedures when they filled the hole w/ seawater.

I understand that it's not absolutely PROVEN they did those things, but we have eyewitness testimony that explains the situation with clarity.

Yet the corporate media seems to ignore ^that shit. I consider it fact. Am I wrong?

http://news.videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-1
http://news.videosift.com/video/60-Minutes-Deepwater-Horizon-s-Blowout-Part-2