I imagine they do. They will (they have...) considered the political implications of such a response WRT their political aims, and act accordingly.
In my view, this is a foreseeable consequence of our perfectly rational addiction to oil. Unless one is prepared to shift to an oil-free lifestyle (I mean really), one should be willing to accept these events as foreseeable and inevitable.
That said, we should always strive for institutional reforms that quell the apparent risk taking that led to this event, but we need to recognize and accept that within the socio-economic realities of our culture, there is a certain incentive for this sort of thing to occur.
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In my view, this is a foreseeable consequence of our perfectly rational addiction to oil. Unless one is prepared to shift to an oil-free lifestyle (I mean really), one should be willing to accept these events as foreseeable and inevitable.
That said, we should always strive for institutional reforms that quell the apparent risk taking that led to this event, but we need to recognize and accept that within the socio-economic realities of our culture, there is a certain incentive for this sort of thing to occur.