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“Is this…(fill in your name) – I’m calling because your daughter has been in an accident.” Words we fear hearing, we don’t dwell on it, that would be called paranoia, but we don’t like hearing those words, and we dread the thought.  Two weeks ago, some families heard those words, and they were being notified that the man of the family was in a disastrous accident in the Gulf of Mexico- in the worst of all possible end results, eleven of these brave men, lost their lives.
The question now is- is this merely blow-back from the sealant, or is there something else going on here?

When the United States of America begins to dig into it’s so called energy crisis- built around petroleum consumption; three questions come up:  1)  Can we curb our consumption or change the way we consume the petroleum.  2)  Are we so tied into the petroleum use that we cannot change.  3)  If we begin to drill for our own oil resources, designed to come into American tanks for storage, will that lessen our dependence in America on what is called foreign oil?

These three questions eventually hit the cost factor – and the companies which drill for oil, have to operate as any other company for a profit.  So the oil drilling companies are used to a certain standard of operation, and, the consuming and storing companies are also used to a certain standard, and the pricing of petroleum is consigned via certain economic mechanisms having very little to do with consumption, and much more to do with speculative value which homegrown American storage would impact upon.

At the end of the day, the question will come up, was this a disaster that occurred because of error, flaw in design, or- is this something else?  We aren’t talking about a ship which moves with currents and charts and can get off course, or be blown or maneuvered off course through many different factors, rather this is a set platform with set operating procedures.  Were those procedures altered- and if so, was that alteration part of standard or non-standard behavior?  At the end of the day, is this disaster meant to make America once more hunker down about drilling for her own oil?

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Sometimes we want to spend a lot of time thinking things over. For example, people will ask me to tell them about me, but really, what can you say, I’ve gone to school for sixteen years of getting into books? Only to see the fictionalized plot imagined out in a movie, “Knowing” Which, while it has a lot to offer, offers hope in a varied form. Hope in my opinion is what separates us as people, and it seems to me that perhaps hope is a lot to offer?
Thousands of books, five books a week for over 27 years? Hmm…would that be right, let’s see, 5X52X27= 7020; yup, that’s thousands of books, and the funny part is, only two of the five per week were for entertainment, like Robert B. Parker’s Spenser series, those I love to read. The other three per week were educational or schoolastic in nature, such as statistics, algebra, how to market, how to write, law, business law (McMillan’s 6th Ed. on Bus Law let me contribute); and others, were all designed to help me learn to write really fine reports. Throughout three degrees beyond high school, all my efforts have been toward learning to help to communicate to others those things that really matter. So my sense is that sometimes we find varied sources that really have a lot to offer, and maybe, just maybe, we should take advantage of that? Lately I’ve been wondering about that…so, while you please comment on this one, consider this:
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