Oil Spill Sounding Fishy

Well, maybe it is just the "conspiracy" side of me; however, I find it interesting that shortly after Virginia approves off-shore drilling that America has its first major oil spill event rivaling Exxon Valdez.  I'm not pointing the fingers, but something does smell a little fishy out off the coast of Louisana and Alabama.  I mean, it isn't that far fetched that extremist eviromental organization would conduct sabotage to make a point.  It happened in Colorado where several homes were set on fire and it has happened at car dealers where the dreaded manmouth SUVs being destroyed.  Somehow there is something moronic about enviromentalists protesting global warming by lighting stuff on fire; thus contributing to the cause that they are fighting. 

So, here we have a major "accident" at a oil facility off the Gulf Coast.  Also, it just happens that this particular oil facility isn't equipped with an emergency shut off valve that isn't required by US regulations.  So, the world is rivited (well, outside the immigration fiasco; however, that's for another blog) wondering how the world's oceans will survive this magnitude of environment event.  I haven't surfed the environment web pages, but I can imagine what they're saying "See, see! We told you that allowing for the drilling of oil will endanger Mother Earth. See, see...big oil said a spill wouldn't happen and it has...oh woe is me.". 

What or who the culprit will be has yet to be seen, but it might...just might not be to far fetched that this will be attributed to "human" error and it will definitely be used by the extreme environmental left to bolster their case against drilling off-shore or anywhere else.  It will also be used to support their opposition against nuclear energy.  I mean, if we can't even run an oil rig without causing a environmental disaster; how can we build more nuclear reactors and think we can prevent another Three Mile Island?

Just the view from my foxhole.