Oil Companies Fought Regulations.....

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/energy/2010-05-09-drilling_N.htm

Companies fighting regulations that could have helped prevent the current disaster in the gulf. Who needs regulations when you can have the worlds biggest oil spill. Regulations cost money but an out of control oil spill, which has been gushing for 21 straight days and has no end in sight, is much more affordable.

"Oil executives — including BP, which leased the rig that exploded April 20 — argued that the industry had a solid environmental record (clearly) and most companies had voluntarily adopted similar safeguards (Obviously not) to protect against a major spill."

"Since the spill, BP has changed its position (yeah never mind) on the MMS proposal, BP spokesman Andrew Gowers said. The company expects tighter safety rules and will not oppose them, he said. (They will just sit there quietly and look like the incompetents that they are).

"Oil industry safety experts and environmentalists say the tougher regulations are needed and might even have prevented the spill threatening hundreds of miles of coastline."

The failure of the government to adopt measures demonstrates the chokehold that the companies have on federal regulators, who seldom impose rules in the face of intense opposition, the safety experts said.
"Whenever the oil industry sees some proposal they don't like, they kill it," said Richard Charter, senior policy adviser for marine programs at the environmental group Defenders of Wildlife. "They throw their money around."

Other evidence of Big Oils "Solid Saftey record"

This was a good one. http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/05/09/spain.black.tide/

Drill baby Drill.......