richard wolfe, msnbc, and author of ren gait. thanks. let s turn now to rick steiner, who joins us again from anchorage. rick, good evening. hi, keith. how are you? more discouraged than usual on this. this new, untested drilling method, frequent gas kicks, puts extra pressure on pipes, extra pressure on well casings. does that sound like a kind of drilling that s already happening all over the world? well, yeah. the extended reach drilling has gone on in various places throughout the world. there s no question about that. but just because there hasn t been a catastrophic blowout from one of these ultra extended reachwells doesn t mean that one cannot occur. i mean, look back three or four months on the deepwater horizon, and all the deep water drilling in the gulf of mexico, and until then until deepwater horizon