Big Oil's Groundhog Day of "Deja Vu Land" As Produced by Rachel Maddow

Rachel Maddow completely destroys Big Oil's claim that they've gotten better at drilling for oil offshore. Maddow and her production team put together video clips from a big oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico during 1979. The similarities between it and the Deepwater Horizon Oil Catastrophe of today will make you shake your head in disbelief.

Maddow asserts at the close of her show that oil companies have gotten better in only one respect of drilling: going deeper. The 1979 rig blowout in the Gulf was only in 200 feet of water. On the other hand, Maddow says Big Oil has gotten no better at containing the risks of an oil rig failure, as they are still using tried and failed methods from 31 years ago to try and stop today's leak which is 5,000 feet below the surface.

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