On Mon, 31 May 2010 00:34:59 -0400, Ed Pawlowski wrote:

> "sf" > wrote
>> The facts about what happened and why have been out for a long time.
>> http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/...n6490197.shtml
>> http://blog.alexanderhiggins.com/201...se-60-minutes/
>>
>
> All good information, but the investigation may add to it or change things
> when all is said and done and the finger pointing stops. Many of these
> disasters take months or years and sometimes have surprise causes not seen
> during the initial findings.
>
> .>> The reality is the effects of this spill will be decades long, maybe
>>> centuries.
>>
>> This is why offshore drilling is not a good idea. Unfortunately some
>> people need personal experience to learn why.
> .
> It won't stop until we decide to reduce our oil consumption around the
> world. We keep digging deeper holes in the ground and taking out more and
> more resources. Be it oil, gold, iron, copper, much of the easy stuff is
> gone and it is getting more costly to get the rest. Our freewheeling
> materialistic society may be in for radical changes in the next couple of
> generations.

yep. in many ways, easy living for americans is going to become a thing of
the past.

your pal,
blake