Rachel is destroying the case for 'drill, baby, drill'

[deminks]

Showing clips from NBC from 1979 from a massive oil well explosion in the gulf. They used the same techniques then as now, only in 200 feet of water! Same dome, same top hat, same BS. 9 months that well leaked until relief wells were completed. 1979.

[Peacetrain]

1. Yes she did..

[eleny]

2. Thank goodness it was followed by the best news in a month albeit a glimmer

But it's shocking that the disaster response technology hasn't advanced since then. That was the year we bought this place, the year after hubby and I got married. Yikes, too many years ago

P.S. Our mortgage interest rate? It was 11 1/8%.

[nadinbrzezinski]

3. That was the Ixtoc I

yep...

[dgibby]

4. Took Big Oil to the woodshed.

It was a thing of beauty! She is such a great educator. I learn something from her every night.

[madmax]

5. Rachel is one of, if not the best

This report from the 70's is a killer. This should be on primetime and every major station. Proof conclusive that BP is GROSSLY negligent and has never learned from experience. They have NOTHING!

[MindandSoul]

6. Absolutely agree!

[MadMaddie]

7. They had no incintive to improve their processes

expecially after all of the deregulation.

[Canuckistanian]

8. So much for "the invisible hand"

Isn't that how it's supposed to work? Corporation does bad, people stop buying their product and voila! They correct themselves.

Yep, that's the theory.

[MadMaddie]

9. You are right and it keeps on failing as theory.

[amborin]

10. K&R