{"id":3742,"date":"2010-12-29T11:51:56","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T19:51:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=3742"},"modified":"2010-12-29T11:51:56","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T19:51:56","slug":"the-gobp-gusher-had-priors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2010\/12\/29\/the-gobp-gusher-had-priors\/","title":{"rendered":"The GOBP Gusher Had Priors!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"29ibm_pc\"Think back, if you will, to 1979 and how much technology has changed since then.  My computer was a kit that I had built myself.  The PCs available at the beginning of the year were the original IBM PC, the Apple II, and the Commodore PET.  That year Texas Instruments releases the TI-99\/4. 8 MhZ was a fast CPU, not today\u2019s 2.4 GhZ which is over 300 times faster.  Those of us who communicated between computers did so at 110 bits bps, not today\u2019s 4 Gbps, which is over 39 million times faster.  Todays cell phones have far more computing power that the desktops of that day.  Watching the advance of technology in this and most other fields has been sufficient to boggle the mind.  Last night I saw a video segment from Rachel Maddow that takes us back to 1979 to compare the Ixtoc oil spill in the gulf and the industry response with the GOBP Gusher earlier this year.  Here it is.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Considering the rapid advances in technology in so many other fields makes the advance of technology for preventing and recovering from oil spills  conspicuous for the complete lack thereof.  The only explanation is that the oil industry simply did not try to advance it to their shame and the even greater shame of US politicians who sell out the American people to enable these companies.  We will not know the true cost of the GOBP Gusher for years.  Can we afford to learn the lesson again in 31 more years?<\/font><\/p>\n

Each time history repeats itself, the cost of the lesson goes way up.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Think back, if you will, to 1979 and how much technology has changed since then.  My computer was a kit that I had built myself.  The PCs available at the beginning of the year were the original IBM PC, the Apple II, and the Commodore PET.  That year Texas Instruments releases the TI-99\/4. 8 MhZ […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3742","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3742"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3742\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3742"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3742"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3742"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}