The feds were on it with in a few days. Dont you remember how on day 1 jerk offs were trying to assert that this was Obama's Katrina and other stupid shit? So they came out on day 3 and the coast guard has been there ever since. BP is directing it.
As far as that goes, people are pissed as hell about the coast guard being BP's pool boy's. And I see their point especially with this shit:
http://www.wwltv.com/news/gulf-oil-s...-94624594.html (check out Captain Edwin Stanton of the Coast Guard explaining why the oil was onshore and there was boom sitting on a dock and skimmers in trailers instead of in the water. Hint: he calls himself "slow and dumb").
But it's not like there's some secret oil cleanup crew that the government has and is not using. All they could do more of at this point is in helping organize and utilize resources better so there is no more oil coming onshore with unused boom sitting 10 feet away on a dock because some idiot is too slow and dumb.