A three month long technology fair opens in Houston on May 5th. How nice for them, they get to tout all their stories about profits and ignorance.

I was just wondering, perhaps they might even have some 'workshops' on morality and how over-extending their safety margin might be an issue prosecutable by death when innocent citizens die and their economies collapse.  

I guess the death penalty is more than any civilized society should expect for plutocrats.  But, negligent homicide probably should meet with some kind of penalty the industry recognizes.

This is Cameron International's Headquarters in Houston.  Nice building. 

Link:  http://www.c-a-m.com/

British Petroleum is claiming that their 'pressure control device' failed causing the current developing 'dead zone' in the Gulf of Mexico.

5000 feet down, I demand to see the 'test data' that this device not only functioned at full capacity at that depth, but, had a 'fail safe' device that would work when it failed.  How much anyone want to wager that information doesn't exist because it was never tested that way.  The pressure at 5000 feet down crushed the mechanism and that is why the USA Navy can't get it to work.  I mean is it made of titanium?   

Not only that, but, what company installed it with guarantees to their ability to install the device without damage to its mechanism.  Was it tested BEFORE the well was attempted?  I don't think so.

"Drill here, drill now !"  

No one should bother to answer those questions until they've had a chance to 'lawyer up.'  Besides, I already know the answers.

I still demand for oil HOLE to be torpedoed closed.