Oil Spills

No matter what news you watch, read or listen to, you're immersed in news about the BP Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
The last time an oil spill got this much attention was with the Exxon Valdez in Alaska.
What I want to know is why when there's a spill in the United States that it makes the news. If you look around the world, you'll see that much more oil is being spilled everywhere else.
As an example; Nigeria has had the equivalent of two Exxon Valdez's every year since 1979. What about the huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico by a Mexican driller that lasted over nine months....no one reported that.
Saudi Arabia spills more oil each year than all the oil spilled in the Gulf of Mexico since drilling there began.
Iran had huge oil spills in 1972, 1983 and 1985; yet not one word in the news. What about the massive oil spill in Iraq in 1991 ? How about the massive oil spill by Venezuela ? We'll never know how much Russia is spilling, but estimates make the BP disaster look like a trickle.
Sure, this recent oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico is huge and newsworthy, but so are the spills made by other countries. Why does it make the news only when it happens to America ?
It's part of the "cost of doing business" to have oil spills when you're dealing with such huge quantities of oil.
Do you think that the drillers want to lose a single barrel of oil with prices as high as they are ? Of course not.
They are doing their best to get every drop of oil to the marketplace.
The BP oil spill is certainly not the first and won't be the last. You drill, you spill.
The real culprits behind these spills are the governments (ours included) that either permit drillers to do as they wish or restrict them to the point where it's only a matter of time until there's a giant oil spill.
Now,our government has us running around screaming "the sky is falling" and using this most recent accident to promote their agenda for alternate fuels and power. Until the technology, for these alternative sources are improved, they are still very costly and cumbersome.
Sure, we should be concerned about the BP problem; however, we should be just as concerned about any waste of energy or oil and how it's wrecking our environment, the planet and eventually, our way of life.
C'mon, BP aren't the only "bad guys" in the oil business.
The obvious solution to avoiding any oil spills in the future is for the world to stop using oil for anything.....no more cheap food, no more cheap clothing, no more cheap transportation, 75% of all drugs can no longer be made, no more plastics, etc.
Whether you love or hate the oil companies, until you're ready to step back 200 years in your way of life and its creature comforts, you're stuck with the need for oil. So quit your bitching about it.