Another oil spill?

[Bienes Raices]

Please, I don't want to have to start worrying about our beaches all over again:

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/09/02/louisiana.oil.platform.explosion/index.html?hpt=T1

[Jon Holdman]

This new incident was on a production platform, not a drilling platform. Its 14 years old, has seven wells and is in 320 feet of water. There was a fire. Safety equipment kicked in properly and shut off the well when the fire broke out.

Had this not been so close on the heels of the BP blowout, we wouldn't even be hearing about it. Unfortunately, its not an uncommon occurrence. I worked in the IT department of Shell for 17 years. Any group meeting always started with a safety summary of the recent incidents. The numbers were rarely all zeros. Safety was a big deal and everyone in the company participated in safety training.

You want to avoid future incidents like this? Stop driving. Stop using electricity. Stop using anything made of plastic or derived from petroleum. Otherwise just accept that petroleum is sucked out of the ground and turned into gasoline and milk jugs by people with machines. The machines sometimes break and mistakes happen. People sometimes die and there are sometimes tarballs on the beach.