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What can happen did happen in the Gulf of Mexico

05/03/2010
By Bob Tippee
What happens when what can happen happens?The offshore oil and gas industry deals constantly with what can happen. Nearly all the time, it does so successfully.The exception is what changes everything. What can happen in offshore oil and gas work is not pretty: explosions, fires, spills, injuries, deaths.In fact, the ugly potential of what can happen drives the political debate over offshore leasing and drilling.Opponents of these activities cite the mere potential for bad outcomes as sufficient reason not to perform the activities at all.Supporters of offshore oil and gas work cite the resulting energy supplies, incomes, and tax payments but know better than to promise that what can happ...
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