Well the BP engineers aren’t treating this like the rantings of environmentalist whackos nor is the Coast Guard. The Louisiana fishing industry has a temporary ban in certain areas.
Florida senator Bill Nelson said
“You are talking about massive economic loss to our tourism, our beaches, to our fisheries, very possibly disruption of our military testing and training, which is in the Gulf of Mexico,” he told CNN’s “State of the Union” program.
I said its a bad situation, you disagree with that?
If this fix does not work their only other choice right now “is drilling a first relief well one week ago, but that will take up to three months to drill — by which time some 20 million gallons of crude could have streamed into the sea”