Of primary note: Interesting article, though highly opinionated. One fact to emerge:
The Wall Street Journal reports that the [leaking Gulf] oil well didn't have a remote-control shut-off switch [at the base]. The reason it didn't have a thing that it seems every single offshore drilling rig should have? According to environmental lawyer Mike Papantonio, it's because Dick Cheney's energy task force decided that the $500,000 switches were too expensive, and they didn't want to make BP buy any.http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/thegaggle/archive/2010/05/03/dick-cheney-s-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day.aspx
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