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Originally Posted by CompuDude
So... what is it you do with the oil after the drilling? You load it onto ships.
Point stands. No drilling platforms, no oil pumping, no ship loading ... no spills.
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Point doesn't stand. The Valdez didn't spill it's oil while pumping or loading. And you in fact do have pumping and loading even in the absence of drilling platforms. When supertankers come over here from overseas they don't come into port. They are far too big. Nearly every barrel of crude we import gets transferred to smaller lightering vessels or pipelines offshore. One might even argue that transferring from fixed structure (rig) to boat is safer than boat to boat.
There have been hundreds of rigs in the gulf off Texas for over 30 years. Mexico gets most of it's oil from the gulf in Campeche Bay. Tell me how many bad spills you can remember. Tell me why the coasts of California or Florida are going to be any different than Texas.