is there anything fundamentally qualitatively safer about drilling in shallow water than in deep water? the primary thing that makes it different i m not sure one is less safe than the other i think the risk is higher of something going wrong in the deep water because you have a floating facility where these sit on the bottom. but you still have that severe risk of spill and fire on both facilities. the advantage that you have with shallow water is that you can get to it easier than you can with deep water. it can be fixed faster generally than a deep water spill or blowout. is there a trend of safety problems in the drilling industry right now? you know of the industry will say, this is an anomaly. you have enough anomalies, you have a trend. the timing of this could not be
effecting, according to the drilling industry, more than $330 million a month in wages with these different companies, affecting some 33 rigs, at least one of them has already picked up and gone out of the area, and that is what lawmakers down there in the gulf region are really worried about when it comes to jobs and the economy after this spill. jenna: from an outsiders view it s an interesting dynamic set up between the federal government and states. not only do you have the federal government with this insistence on a moratorium and the gulf states really worried about jobs in that local area. you also have the federal government at odds with arizona over the immigration policy there. what do you think is behind this strategy, if you will, of the federal government asserting its power in many of these cases? reporter: there is a lot of politics, you re not going to be surprised here in washington and how it plays in the electoral situation. as far as the environmental impact the
off shore have been handled. we feel this is highly atypical and other operatiors and other operations can go on as we know of others that we have. it bears reminding folks the actual likelihood of a spill in the u.s. side of gulf coast is 1,000 of 1% in u.s. history. this is not a likely occurrence. a lot of people think of big oil when they think of who is being hurt right now. tell people how small businesses are being hurt and how they will be hurt going forward. well, all the support businesses for the drilling industry, you know, people that supply pipe, our business supplies mooring systems, all these economies work off of people that make the money doing the support jobs. so as the operators have production to carry them through the moratorium, the support companies like us, our service companies, we won t have the income. we ll lose our people and when the industry is allowed to go
is this 100%? i never say 100% in the drilling industry. that doesn t exist in anything that we do. everything is risk related. i think that the well plan is set up to give them multiple opportunities and not just short it term. long-term opportunities to kill the well. i have been saying this is purely intuitive. i would say 80% chance that the relief well alone will work and i think fairly quickly once they establish communication with the blowing out well. all right. once that happens gene beck, thank you for joining us this morning with that. i think you have given people a better understanding of how all of this works. thank you. you guys have a good day. thanks. you too. appreciate it. more triple digit temperatures across the northeast and up and down the east coast actually. rob marciano is going to tell you when we ll get to see a
5,000 feet below the water? well, of course the safest way is to close down the gulf of mexico permanently. i say reinspect all of the rigs, especially in deep water. every one of them. reinspect them. and maybe inspect them with other companies involved, if necessary. but, it s interesting. louisiana, the state that s affected mostly by the oil spill is the state that is really going to be affected by the closing of all of these rigs. they want the rigs to continue to operate. so i think it s a little overreaction, inspect them but don t blanketly close down the drilling industry. because it will never come back. like the manufacturing business, it never came back after the 1970s and 1980s in the country. this drilling business will not come back either. clayton: congressman well said. congressman ted poe. thanks. thanks, clayton. clayton: you bet. coming up on the show are we witnessing the downfall of men? our next guest says women are