[quote=mike92104]The oil companies are regulated, but the regulators were asleep at the wheel, or too busy watching porn and taking speed. How does more of that prevent the oil spill?[/quote]

Are you implying that it’s impossible to regulate oil companies effectively, that disastrous oil spills can’t be prevented, and we shouldn’t even try?

Or is there some counterintuitive mechanism that will make companies like BP regulate themselves if the government regulation goes away?