Deepwater Horizon Blowout: This is What the End of the Oil Age Looks Like

A couple of adages from the old-timers are worth quoting: “Cut corners all you want, but never downhole,” and, “There’s fast, there’s cheap, and there’s right, and you get to pick two.”

There will be plenty of blame to go around, as events leading up to the fatal rig explosion are sorted out. Even if efforts to plug the gushing leak succeed sooner rather than later, the damage to the Gulf environment and to the economy of the region will be incalculable and will linger for years if not decades.

that they do not control and will not profit from. From ordering their puppet politicians to fight to deny improving gas mileage in cars, to doing everything possible to marginalize renewable fuel resources, the Petroleum Mafia has flexed it's unmatched muscles. Maybe now the world, and especially the US, which is it's biggest enabler and customer, will see the drug dealer for what it truly is: a merchant of death and destruction, motivated solely by power and profit.