If this had happened when Bush was POTUS the press would have insinuated that it was a conspiracy by the administration to deliberately kill wildlife and raise the price of gasoline to make obscene profits. Lord Obama will use this crisis to shut down offshore drilling and the ditto for using the coal mine disaster to stop coal mining. I expect we will be freezing in our darkened homes and businesses this winter waiting for the winds to blow and and turn the wind mills.
It will be ironic when the Chinese are drilling in the Gulf 60 miles from our shores. We all know what a fine environmental record they have.