Louisiana politicians (BobbyJindal, DavidVitters, MaryLandrieu) have made pitches for more drilling (Landrieu on the very day after this disaster began) and demanded the moratorium be lifted.
Obama hasn't shut down BP's other operations in US waters (Atlantis is potentially a worse nightmare than Deepwater Horizon and is still operating in the Gulf of Mexico, and according to reports last week, BP is moving ahead with drilling in the arctic). Obama, in a move that was confusing from the start, never actually issued a moratorium on shallow water drilling, despite the fact that drilling in shallow water is just as dangerous as deepwater drilling (the Ixtoc and Montara blowouts that gushed for months were in shallow water).
If Louisiana's industries are 1) oil, gas, chemicals, and 2) fishing and tourism, and fishing and tourism is destroyed, how else is Louisiana going to make up the state's lost revenues if not by increasing offshore drilling?
And if BP were held responsible, 100%, for the damage & went bankrupt, the costs would fall to the US taxpayer (or it wouldn't be paid or cleaned up at all). Other oil conglomerates would step up & reap the benefit of unlimited drilling in a ruined Gulf of Mexico.
BP's/oil industry's desire to prevent the rescue might be that if any animals survive, their protection could trump the oil industry's interests.
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