Name:   MAJ USA RET - Subject:   More bad economic news.....sigh...... Date:   6/18/2010 1:03:47 PM

Remember, this whole thing was an accident (we assume there was not a conspiracy to make it happen).  BP… that would be the engineer on station… took a big risk and lost.  No risk = no oil = no BP. 

There are NO oil drilling operations anywhere that are anything less than risky.  Why are we having to drill in 5000 feet of water anyway?  Who forced THAT risky decision?

Do you, Hound, believe we would be better off without BP?  What other oil company should we do without? Please, forego driving or riding in an automobile for just one week before answering such a question.

It was inevitable that this would happen.  That it happened to a foreign company, in international waters, off of our coastline… chose where YOU want it to happen.

It takes courage to take risks.  We benefit from the winning plays more than suffer from the losing ones.  We should reward courage if it benefits us, but we lack the guts to take risk ourselves.  Thank God, not all men are placid. 

Fishing and tourism will be restored to the Gulf Coast (I have NOT cancelled my Orange Beach condo in October).  Gulf Coastal jobs will be lost to the trouncing of the oil companies.  Ours is a world in which we trade in risk… whether we touch it or not.