Americans hunger and thirst after oil, gasoline, plastics and everything else petroleum furnishes; however, they want it all by virtue of antiseptic magic.
For some reason, reality doesn’t sit too well with the television generation.
In 20-20 hindsight, the Gulf was probably not the best place to do the first pilot projects with ultra-deep undersea wells. It’s so difficult to get at the crippled well because the water is so deep; no manned vessel can reach it.