It's also a VERY sad time for the families of the 12 workers who were lost and now the Gulf is their eternal grave. Nobody in the news business even mentions them and I have never even read the list of names. Working offshore is how most of the people in my home community make their living. Several years ago a hurricane flipped a rig and killed my first cousin and it took two weeks to find and recover his body from under a load of pipe. Another time I lost a friend when a pipe got loose and knocked him off the platform. He had just graduated high school and that was his first job. I know lots of sad stories like that but the oil companies, like the coal mines, seem to have taken the attitude that it's just the price of doing business. jmoOriginally Posted by Chubminnow
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