Originally Posted by SallyRand

Well, I suppose that all of you no longer heat your homes with natural gas, you do not buy electricity from commercial producers and make your own with bicycle-powered generators and that none of you dirve fossil fueled cars and trucks.

Even the computers on which you view and particpate with in this forum are in reality petroleum based, so I presume that you will also shut off those in protest.

There!

Don't we all now feel so much better-and-good-and-green?

Yes, mistakes were made and mistakes will continue to be made because mistakes, like shit, happen and will continue to happen as long as we are dependant on oil but the fact is that we are and we can't change that in any reasonable length of time but we can get better at it and minimize the mistakes.

The President can't do anyting about it; like what kind of petroleum engineer is he? He can't even balance a budget, so how do you think that he's going to fix a runaway oil well?

BP did NOT want this to happen and to a certain extent was blindsided by it, although more care could and should have been taken in such deep water drilling.

We need to let them do thier job as they are the only people in the world outside of Kevin Costner, whose cleanup method would take roughly one billion years, who can get the job done.