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The author analyzes the circumstances leading to the Gulf Oil Spill and other oil spills and the inadequacy of the responses. It mentions the necessity for deep water oil drilling for countries including Norway. Investigations have proven that the accidents were caused by bad decisions, and disaster preparation were inadequate. It feels that the political future of deep water offshore drilling is imperiled if disaster responses are not fixed. It is optimistic that the environment and economies would recover eventually as it allegedly did in the past.