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Old 05-09-2010, 10:47 PM  
billywatson
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Originally Posted by CyberAge-Dave View Post
They should stick a Cork in it. That's fucked up. All that pressure coming out of that thing.
You would think they would have a back up plan for this shit with the profits they make. And Obama giving them tax breaks.
There was a safety valve that was proposed to be mandatory on ALL US offshore drilling. It was going to be a law...but the Bush administration nixed it.

Why?

Too expensive.

How expensive?

$500,000.

As in half a million dollars.

I think BP made 6 billion last quarter. Can anyone do the math here and figure out how long it woulda taken them to pay for the safety valve that the Bush/Cheney crew let them off the hook for?
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