How do we allow construction of oil wells off our coast without automatic isolation capability?

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Really?  We have hundreds of oil platforms in the Gulf Of Mexico that have no automatic isolation capability in case of a catastrophe like the one that happened last week?

And we are going to let these geniuses "drill baby drill" off the coasts of Virginia, N. & S. Carolina, Georgia and Florida?  Heck, we won't need tankers or pipelines to bring in the oil, we can just skim it off the beaches every morning.

metalearn · Accepted Answer

Because in America, oil companies still don't accurately valuate the cost such a disaster would have on their own drilling operations, let alone the environment.

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How do we allow construction of oil wells off our coast without automatic isolation capability?

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