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bpuharic

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 22:34:39 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 16:34:39 -0400, bpuharic wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 12:49:44 -0400, wrote:

On Thu, 17 Jun 2010 11:42:56 -0400, Harry
wrote:

You really don't think anyone from the other oil companies has thought
of something better?

Actually, no.

Since they are making all of this up as they go along, why would you
think that? BP is not the only company that drills oil wells.

what makes you think their engineers are dumber than exxon's?

Dumber? no but that doesn't mean they all have the same ideas.

ideas are generally marginal...incremental. there's no revolution in
cleaning up an oil spill

yep. cheney told 'em to do what they wanted

I bet these plans are 40 years old with numerous revisions along the
way. It will still be written to the government standard.

yep.

That is how it works now. They get to drill under a license from the
government. Theoretically the government monitors the drilling but
they are not competent to do it.
All I have to say about the government actually managing these things
is the space shuttle.
40% failure rate of the fleet with total loss of life in each failure.
(2 out of the 5 that ever flew, came apart in the air)

tell it to toyota. how long were they making cars?

Does the government own Toyota? What's your point.?
It is certainly not that 40% of the Toyotas ever made crashed.

private enterprise isn't better than govt. they both have failure