Double Down on Relief Wells

Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) has introduced legislation requiring the drilling of relief wells at all new drilling sites off the coast of the US. Today CNN is reporting that the industry response has been negative. Relief wells would be (1) expensive and (2) dangerous (what if the relief well blew out?). If relief wells are too expensive and dangerous, then maybe the same can be said for the original wells (pictured above are the relief wells for the Ixtox Oil Spill).