Is it time to end deep-water drilling

The Wall Stree Journal has an article up about what might have prevented the Oil-Spill in Louisiana. The interesting part is that the safety device, that would have cost about $500,000 was not required thanks to Dick Cheney’s energy commission. This makes me think that Cheney was so effective at gutting enviromental regulations that we probably cannot trust the oil industry to drill safely in the U.S anymore. It may be time to end oil production in the U.S before the country becomes uninhabitable.