The final report on the Gulf oil spill demands that oil companies provide more detailed assessments of the true risks involved in deep-sea drilling. ++ The oil lobby strongly opposes US attempts to regulate the industry more closely. ++ The Obama administration lacks sufficient support in Congress to effectively counter this opposition. ++ Oil companies should not just concentrate on the cleanup
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The Gulf oil spill is the latest example of state terror, hyped by Obama as a national disaster for political ends. ++ In reality, oil has reached only 10 percent of the coastline, but the economic consequences stemming from the media blitz are devastating. ++ Obama’s populist rhetoric, backed up by “dial-a-quote scientists howling blue murder,” has emptied clean beaches of tourists,
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