$500,000 could have prevented Spill Baby Spill.

[TheBigotBasher]

Half a million dollars or £300 thousand pounds. A few days worth of BP profits.

Almost every single Nation in the World requires by law a remote shut off facility to ensure that oil rig accidents like this do not cause the level of damage that this is causing and will cause.

$500,000.

The US does not require that unnecessary burden on business.

At the same time, conservatives — who were chanting "Drill, baby, drill" two years ago — reacted cautiously, displeased with Obama's declaration that some coastal territory would remain untouched. In addition to Bristol Bay, the Atlantic coast from New Jersey northward would be closed to exploration, as would the entire Pacific coastline. The proposal is a "step in the right direction," said Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell in a statement, "but a small one that leaves enormous amounts of American energy off-limits."

http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1976928,00.html#ixzz0mcIm36e3