Everyone who ever chanted ‘Drill baby drill’ should report to Gulf coast today for cleanup duty!”

With out the drilling we are paying $6 for a gallon of gas on top of increased prices on everything else made from petroleum. It is sad, the devistation, but where is the saftey shut off on the well in use through out the rest of the oil drilling world? What was the cause of the initial explosion? Who regulates gulf drilling? If this was ANWR it would be taken care of already.

Oh I agree with you on regulation but in this case it is moot. Damage is being done every second. The problem may not only be in regulation but enforcement. There are obviously ways to make this and every industry safer. You can regulate it 1000 ways but until it is enforced……

Within 4 DAYS they were BEGINNING their assessment??? That sounds SLOW to me! What if they waited 4 days to respond to 9/11? Would THAT sound fast? Realize too! Our government has had YEARS to force big-oil to implement backup well-head system laws to prevent “THE BIG DISASTER” like this. This is a direct result of our government’s “Pass the Buck” system. Lobbies have paid the senators, reps, and presidents to drown away legislations that could have prevented this disaster. ALSO REALIZE — They STILL have still not stopped the 300,000 gallon/day flow! So far, that is around 3,300,000 gallons of oil INTO the water, or the equivalent of 1,220,000,000,000 severely polluted gallons of water (the numbers are accurate; 1 qt oil “severely” pollutes 100,000 gallons of water). Yes, 1.2 TRILLION gallons of polluted water – so far. Did you also realize… they DON’T really know yet how to fix the well-head rupture because the break is ONE mile underwater? The robots have failed the repair. They are now planning on a giant dome to contain the spill. A GIANT DOME!? I’m sure that will ALSO save their precious oil too! A giant dome… and months later… 60 trillion gallons of polluted water in the Gulf/Atlantic oceans. Too bad the oil industry and the bought & paid for US politicians didn’t listen to the Greeners a little more! The backup emergency well-head systems to prevent this would cost between $500K-$1 million for each well. Big oil cried “that’s too much!” we’re barely scraping by on our 35% profit margins! All the while, YOUR politicians blew this proposal off via the good ole’ fashioned government paperwork trail and media schmooze’ola! THEIR millions in LOBBY dollars obviously go MUCH farther than YOUR voice & VOTE! (Yeah, I know, they’re MY politicians too). Oh well, LA, TX, MS, AL, FL, GA, NC, SC, and anyone who loves seafood, beach vacations, and little American towns surviving around vacationers, travelers, fisheries, docks, etc. I’m sure quaint Americana has saved their booming 35% profits over the past years and are sitting JUST fine! — Those states and those people (ALL of US CITIZENS!) just got SCREWED by BIG oil & BIG government! This is just another “government says CAT3 levy design is just fine, oops, a CAT5 hurricane, err, “We are fixing the problems created by past administrations, blah, blah”” — Oh WELL, sadly, I am starting to become accustomed to getting the BIG GOVERNMENT shaft! My voice is drowned away by the billions in campaign donations made by lobbies. Drowned away like the sea turtles already turning up dead.