Reply #24: Right. Nothing. You don't expect them to run in a hurricane, do you?...

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I mentioned the shutdowns in my post before.

It seems to me much more likely that you'd have a spill from tankers in a hurricane, rather than from an underwater pipeline.

I posted a question about this in another thread... It *seems* as if drilling might nowadays be less risking than importing oil. Importing requires tankers, which can be run aground and spill in hurricane weather -- or even without it. Given that we're getting the oil anyway, the underwater pipelines from oil platforms seem to have a better safety record in the last 20 years.

I haven't seen any study done on this, so I'm not saying that's true. But I can think of several oil tanker spills. The last drilling accident I remember was there in the gulf, back in the 80s, I think.