Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late

Re:Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late by sanderjd on Thursday July 01, 2010 @08:47PM (#1479764)

I'm sorry, I don't think this is the place for a thread that will inevitably devolve into tit-for-tat politics, but I really have trouble stomaching the commentary that the EPA should have less regulatory power over industry when proof of the big-picture bankruptcy of environmental deregulation is current gushing into the gulf at a few tens of thousands of barrels a day.

Yes, it raises costs to force industries to comply with environmental protection standards. Yes, this is bad for the short-term of our economy. But we will continue to suffer the consequences of the environmental harm we do, even at the current regulatory levels, and more so with "a muzzle on the EPA".

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Re:Andy Grove: How To Make An American Job Before It's Too Late by CamperBob on Thursday July 01, 2010 @10:33PM (#1479958)

I'm sorry, I don't think this is the place for a thread that will inevitably devolve into tit-for-tat politics, but I really have trouble stomaching the commentary that the EPA should have less regulatory power over industry when proof of the big-picture bankruptcy of environmental deregulation is current gushing into the gulf at a few tens of thousands of barrels a day.

This kind of reasoning is tricky, though. Do we shut down the airline industry when a plane crashes? No, we pick up the pieces, study what happened, and move on. The result, over time, is a safety record that almost no rational person could criticize.

Nothing made by God or Man will ever be perfect, and that includes deep-sea drilling rigs. If you want to regulate the industry with the goal of making accidents impossible, well, good luck with that.

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