Oil Still a Spillin, Drill Baby Drill

Ok its been 28 days and the darned thing is still flowing. If you watched 60 Minutes Sunday night, one of the survivors working on the rig basically said that BP was pushing TransOcean, the operator of the rig, to work faster even though TransOcean informed them of unsafe conditions. Meanwhile we find out the agency set up to oversee offshore was in bed, literally with the companies that they were overseeing (That's a whole story in itself). So what have we learned? On the more serious side we have learned that oil, no matter where it comes from is sold on the world markets subject to speculators. Hence the high gas prices of 2008. In fact this country has only 2 percent of the worlds oil reserves and any new drilling on the outer continental shelf, where the catastrophe occurred, would save us only 3 cents a gallon by the year 2030 according to the Energy Information Administration. Instead if we upped the MPG to 35 on all new cars we would save a dollar a gallon. We learned that drill baby drill without any oversight is a dangerous thing. Especially when safety systems that are mandatory in Europe are made voluntary in this country. We learned that the same people who want less government are asking where the government is on this. On a lighter side we learned that Rush said that oil is natural and nature would take care of itself, and followed it with the oil companies were forced to drill out that far in dangerous conditions because the crazy environmentalists swayed the government to keep them from drilling in close to shore. Two things, just because it's natural doesn't mean it's not a danger. There are a lot of dangerous things in nature (Plutonium, Mercury, and Lead come to mind) but when they're unleashed without restriction, that's what makes them dangerous. Fresh water is dangerous also, just ask the people in Nashville. Joe on one hand keeps asking me where Obama was for that while at the same time he wants government out of everything except national defense. (Off Track) Second thing Rush, BP was drilling there because that's where the oil is. They don't drill where there's no oil, they drill where the oil is. Is he really that dense?