Our Readers Who Comment are busy throwing rocks at what many see as a Republican regulatory atmosphere that resulted in the Gulf oil disaster after investigators discovered that several things were wrong with equipment that was supposed to prevent it.
The conversation has more than 400 comments and is full of cheap shots at the "drill baby drill" mantra of some Republicans and attacks on an anti-regulatory approach of the previous administration. Republicans respond by noting that the Obama administration wanted to restart offshore drilling but then placed it on hold after the Gulf situation exploded. Readers also express major long-term concerns about our thirst for energy and the price we are paying to satisfy it.
Meanwhile, as Steven Mufson and David A. Fahrenthold write, "Oil is still pouring into the gulf as federal agencies and others investigate the cause of the accident."
We'll start with frantaylor, who wrote, "Really you can look back at the history of engineering disasters, and EVERY SINGLE TIME the failure is in quality control... When it is not done, you get disasters like the Hartford Civic Center roof collapse or the Hyatt Regency walkway collapse. Both of these disasters happened because an engineer made a faulty calculation and it was not caught by quality control... When you hear companies bragging about their profits, beware, it is usually because they are cutting back on quality control."
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