My Plan's Better then Your Plan.

Ya know what bothers me most about the oil disaster in the Gulf? All the oil companies have plans in place to cover emergencies like this oil spill in deep water exploration and drilling. Unfortunately, they all photocopied one single plan from six or ten years ago. Why would I say that? Well they all list an emergency contact of a man that died five years ago. Now that doesn't mean the plan is no good. It just means that it's outdated. What's wrong with that? If it's that old then it hasn't kept pace with the technology used, which means that changes in the ways they do things aren't addressed in the emergency plan. So what? Well, what if you make a plan in your family in case of a fire everyone gets out by a bedroom window. You did a good thing in making a plan. But if the neighbor builds a building two inches from your house on the bedroom side and you don't update your plan, you're screwed. In the case of the Gulf oil spill, we're all screwed. When corporations make world record profits for years on end, it stands to reason that it might behoove them to update some emergency plans. And if they all want to have the same plan, then don't pretend they're all different. Spend the money to do a good plan, review it regularly and spend the money necessary to have the equipment that would be needed. They can each buy some equipment with the idea of sharing when necessary. Seems simple enough.