Heckuva lie, Brownie.

We should all listen to Michael Brown. Just kidding.

But when people say Bush / Cheney wanted 9/11 to happen...

Being that it could potentiality wipe out all relevant sea life on the coast, it does seem that the ramifications are rather great. The other point of, if we don't take it out of the ground than some other person is going to do it is also relevant. Didn't that happen not to long ago actually with Cuba? It is kind of like the idea of an embargo, not drilling doesn't keep you safe it just means you aren't the one doing it. We have to demand with our voting dollar that oil companies be/take responsibility for their environmental impact or be the victim of a people that don't care about our interests nearly as much as their own.

Plus, it just seems so silly to give up on something because it is hard and potentiality dangerous. Same could be said for fusion or any realm of science and discovery. Either way, this whole bit is pretty one-sided and overdone, obviously the president doesn't have an oil disaster machine...or else he would of used it on our competitors first to experiment.

GeeSussFreek:

BP and Cheney worked together to remove the requirement that offshore drills within the US have "acoustic regulators" that would be activated remotely, stopping the flow of oil at the sea floor in case of emergency. They removed the requirement because: "acoustic systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly." And Bush said that oil rigs are already "fail safe".

How costly? $500,000.00

How much is this oil spill going to cost US taxpayers? $14billion

You may remember the secret meetings Cheney had with 100+ oil executives only 2 weeks after entering office. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_Task_Force). This was one of the things that came from these meetings.

In other countries, however, BP is required by law to use these regulators. So, in essence, we'd all be better off if the US has nothing to do with offshore drilling due to the massive collusion between our gov't and the oil industry.