I want to thank President Obama for his commitment to the crisis created by the Petroleum industry. It can't be accomplished without his dedication and expert staff.

Men position a buoy on board a boat with oil boom barriers to stop the spread of oil from the BP Deepwater Horizon platform disaster Saturday. Efforts to stem the flow of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continue. 

The Petroleum Industry is guilty of mismanagement of their operations.  

We know they are all guilty and they need to move to different venues of EXPLOITATION of resources in places where they haven't destroyed an entire economy of an entire coast.

There is NO criticism of this administration in regard to this issue.  

NONE. 

There is no way the Petroleum Industry should ever be welcome to the shores of the USA ever again.  Basically, what they have done is that they have made the Gulf safe for them but no other living creature or any other economy.  The entire Gulf Coast will soon be STERILE.  Everyone affiliated with this antiquated and dirty industry should be so proud of their accomplishments in propaganda for decades !

...But the critics highlight that for years the oil industry has said it should be given access to more of the US's protected areas (see link below) and has generally lobbied against further government regulation of offshore drilling, arguing it could handle any leaks. Some now say the Gulf of Mexico incident lays bare how ill-prepared the industry is for a spill of this size. 

P.J. Hahn, director of the local coastal zone management department, said it was clear that BP – and the industry at large – did not have a response plan: “They have been caught off guard. They are scrambling around.”

BP counters that it has tackled the leak on several fronts. It has tried to close the large valve that stops the flow of oil in an emergency; it says a rig is in place to start drilling a relief well, but that it is waiting for calmer waters; and it is considering building a dome to siphon the leaking oil to a containment vessel on the surface.

But the first of these initiatives has not worked and the second and third will take weeks, if not months, to become effective. 

The company has been pooling the industry’s collective knowledge, getting companies such as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, and Chevron involved.

It has also tried to contain the spill of an estimated 5,000 barrels per day with controlled burns, skimmers, dispersants, and laying almost a 1m feet of booms.

However, the spill has proved too big and rough weather has broken barriers or washed the oily waves over them.

Warnings have been given that the oil slick may reach the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida and Texas.

Ken Salazar, the US interior secretary, said he had told BP officials that they had to “work harder and faster and smarter to get the job done”....

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