If there is one lesson we’ve all learned from the little Gulf Oil Spill thingy is that too much regulation forces the extremely competent and careful energy companies to do riskier and riskier things. The fact that they have been consistently deregulated for decades could never make up for the over-regulation that happened… at some point I guess.
If only environmental radicals had not forced our energy companies to drill where they do, none of this would ever have happened (certainly not all in ONE DAY):
West Virginia gas well blast injures 7; flames now 40 feet
Marcellus gas well blows out in Pennsylvania; gas, drilling fluid shoot 75 feet into air
At least 10 missing after Texas gas line explosion
The Gulf Oil Slick is only a small breeze of the whirlwind we will continue to reap if we don’t just hand over all remaining regulatory control to the regulated and just wipe the gov’t off the map! Who’s with me??!!