[Redleg Duke]

I wrote last week that the engineers are going to be making massive advances as a result of this incident...just like we always make massive advances due to crisies, such as war.

Obama is a small man, with small ideas and an even smaller imagination. He will be a speed bump or stumbling block, but society will give him his 15 minutes of fame or notoriety and then move on to make the great steps forward from the lessons learned.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

As I understand OPA-90, all petroleum handling activities in US or Federal waters must have spill response equipment nearby and every operation must hold spill drills once a year.
Why was this not in place in the Gulf ?

[CutePuppy]

I wrote last week that the engineers are going to be making massive advances as a result of this incident...just like we always make massive advances due to crisies, such as war.

Hear, hear!

Obama is a small man, with small ideas and an even smaller imagination. He will be a speed bump or stumbling block, but society will give him his 15 minutes of fame or notoriety and then move on to make the great steps forward from the lessons learned.

"People with great minds talk about ideas. People with average minds talk about events. People with small minds talk about other people"

Unfortunately, the damage he is causing and is likely still to cause will get him more than "15 minutes" of notoriety (and deservedly so, if we want people to learn from history and by negative example) but I agree that as a society we will "move on to make the great steps forward from the lessons learned", both political and engineering / technological / scientific.

Amen.