# Drill, Baby,Drill!

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [May 1, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940 "2010-05-01T03:03:00Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/try2b_comprehensive/32/65_2.png) [@Try2B\_Comprehensive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Try2B_Comprehensive)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940/1 "2010-05-01T03:03:00Z")

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BP is guilty of criminal negligence.

This oil spill is causing irreperable damage. It is the outrage of the century.

I hate oil, I am inarticulate with anger :mad:

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**Author:** ![FoieGrasIsEvil](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foiegrasisevil/32/16638_2.png) [@FoieGrasIsEvil](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FoieGrasIsEvil)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940/2 "2010-05-01T03:12:03Z")

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BP owns the well only…there was another company, TransOcean, in charge of operations, and that company bears the majority of the responsibility. Their equipment, their employees, their safety measures…their failures.

I do agree that the potential for severe environmental impact exists despite all the measures.

What are you gonna do though? We are a nation addicted to oil.

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**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940/3 "2010-05-01T03:25:51Z")

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> **[A Hateful Curse On BP](https://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=561612)**
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> This Gulf Coast oil spill is sticking in my craw. Any 'dopers also feeling just a teensy bit PO’ed about it?

How many of these do you need?

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**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 3:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940/4 "2010-05-01T03:27:51Z")

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> [@Telemark](#):
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> [A Hateful Curse On BP - The BBQ Pit - Straight Dope Message Board](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=561612)
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> How many of these do you need?

Apparently, the OP is upset about the inexplicable move of the original thread to MPSIMS.

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**Author:** ![Gfactor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/9de053/32.png) [@Gfactor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gfactor)\
**Post date:** [May 1, 2010, 3:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drill-baby-drill/537940/5 "2010-05-01T03:34:37Z")

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> [@Frank](#):
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> Apparently, the OP is upset about the inexplicable move of the original thread to MPSIMS.

Inexplicable or not. That’s not the way to handle it. We’ve got another thread going here now, and we already had a second one when this one was started. This one is closed.

**Gfactor**  
Pit Moderator