You really want to blame someone? How about little boy king wannabe Barry Soetoro who had to, in his words, “approve EVERY decision BP had to make before doing it”.
Environmental loonies don’t want to drill on land, where it is significantly safer, or in shallow water because, get this, they are afraid of an oil spill. It’s a lot easier to fix a spill on land or in a few hundred feet of water than in 5000+ feet. It wouldn’t surprise me at all if the WH or “others” and BP set all this up so the Obongo administration could turn the US citizens against the oil companies to further his alternative energy & more precisely his CO2 emissions and cap and trade scheme?
Barry Soetoro’s 6 month drilling moratorium will cost LA. a lot more economically than any fishing industry losses.
Gulf shellfish annual production $650 million
Gulf oil and gas production $52 billion.
It will come as no surprise to anyone here when 0bama tries to get criminal charges on BP for quitting today.
Crime of causing it — check!
Crime of not fixing it — check!
Penalty — seize all their assets.