In 1999, Tony Blair said everyone would have access to an NHS dentist within two years, but that didn't happen and the new contract that was introduced in 2006 has had many critics who said it encouraged a "drill-and-fill" culture, where dentists were paid for piecework rather than paid for spending time on prevention and long-lasting and complex restorative work.
The recent high price of crude has encouraged an upturn in new drilling (see: "The Big Plunge"), but while capital tends to flow to where it is needed, it only stays where it is welcome.
"But I was encouraged to become a drill sergeant, which I did," she said, "and that experience certainly helped when I taught military drill at the State Police Academy".
Such a result encourages drilling a new well to increase the current recovery for the field and achieve a new ultimate recovery.
"What I worry about when it comes to the Web is that people are encouraged to drill down into their areas of concern to such a degree that they get closeted in their own reflections of themselves," said Joseph Turow, a professor at the Annenberg Public Policy Center at the University of Pennsylvania.
Though it does allow states to veto drilling in waters up to 75 miles off their coasts, it also sets up revenue systems that encourage states to "drill, baby, drill," and will open the door for oil industry lobbyists to cajole state governments into leveraging the safety of their beaches and environment against a temporary increase in revenue.
Jones made many of his millions wildcatting, his fledging oil company betting heavily on the advice of geologists, who encouraged him to drill between dry holes that had been abandoned.
Governor Brown has recklessly encouraged oil drilling and fracking, while his counterpart in New York Andrew Cuomo banned fracking.
In 1996, for instance, the government temporarily lowered royalties on oil pumped in the Gulf of Mexico as a way of encouraging more drilling at a time of low oil prices.
The Obama administration has encouraged Shell's drilling efforts as a way to expand domestic oil production.
A 1981 state law encouraged drilling and specifically declared, "The provisions of this article shall supersede all local laws or ordinances relating to the regulation of the oil, gas, and solution mining industries; but shall not supersede local government jurisdiction over local roads or the rights of local governments under the real property tax law".
