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Dee Silverman wrote:
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Insanity is drilling for oil deep in the gulf, within the territorial
waters of the USA, without proper safeguards. The cost per barrel from
that well will work out to be considerably more than any obtained from
any one of the oilsand projects.

I agree with your basic premise, but the fact is that BP won't lose any
money on the gulf deal. They will write off any losses.

Face it, nobody's going to allow the British teachers to suffer as a
result of the BP disaster.

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"The anti-regulation business ethos is based on the charmingly naive notion
that people will not do unspeakable things for money." - Dana Carpender

Quoted by Paul Ciszek (pciszek at panix dot com). But what I want to know
is why is this diet/low-carb food author doing making pithy political/economic
statements?

Nevertheless, the above quote is dead-on, because, the thing is - business
in one breath tells us they don't need to be regulated (which is to say:
that they can morally self-regulate), then in the next breath tells us that
corporations are amoral entities which have no obligations to anyone except
their officers and shareholders, then in the next breath they tell us they
don't need to be regulated (that they can morally self-regulate) ...