Quote Originally Posted by DJD View Post
Man a hurricane would be pouring salt in the gaping wound. Let's hope and pray that doesn't happen.
I'm on the fence about changing the rules like this. It sounds great but is it neccessary? Will it in fact hurt the little guys with enormous insurance costs to do business like our healthcare system is burdened with? We hear all the time about the cost of healthcare being directly proportional to the cost of liability insurance that the doctors have to pay.
Is this the beginning of that slippery slope?
It's going to get paid for by someone and like I said you would hope BP or any of the big oil companies would step up and pay for it all. I don't know if the little guys are doing the deep water offshore stuff so if something was to happen to a pipe or whatever it would be a lot easier to get to and fix before a massive amount of oil leaked out and caused $75 million plus to clean up. I could be completely wrong and they are doing the deep water stuff also.

But anyways I look at it this way, even if a small oil company did go under because of something like this and people lose jobs....... is it any worse than the people who make a living fishing, shrimping, tourism in that area........ losing their jobs because a oil company caused it? I say too bad oil company and take what they pay for clean up and train/hire the fisherman, shrimper...... to do the cleanup. JMHO