add to that-
The moratorium on all OTHER new offshore drilling.
BP will be the only one tapping into that oil!
In other words, ultimately, they will be REWARDED for this major screw-up!
And taxpayers will probably pay for the clean-up!
The only way to relieve the pressure on a leaking well (until the relief well is finished) is to tap the oil. There is no way to simply "block" the oil, it will just leak out.
The Brown Pelican was almost extinct supposidly from DDT.
The Enviros had a big breeding program in the Gulf and that's why they're in the Gulf in such numbers to start with.
In our area, we have those filthy rotten gulls all over the place along Lake Ontario...and they weren't around 50 years ago.
....they will be REWARDED for this major screw-up!....
Your ignorance is profound. this is not a major screw up. The current event is as much a part of the oil business as drilling or refining or pumping gas. Rather than screw up it is an event beyond the known parameters of the art.
You assume that all is known and that all can be planned for and that any deviation from some lawyerly perception of Christ like perfection is catastrophe. You are very wrong in the way you look at things.
They are to be rewarded for having taken a risk. Those of you who have a mortal fear of risk will never be rewarded. Rather than bitch and moan, you should rejoice at the new bounty.