News articles about this disaster continue to say that it's worse than the Exxon Valdez.
I confess I just don't under this comparison.
The Exxon Valdez was a container ship, carrying a finite amount of oil.
The Deepwater Horizon was a drilling rig, opening a hole into the ocean's crust from which a non-stop supply of oil is gushing.
The two cannot be compared.
What should be compared is the Deepwater Horizon with the Ixtoc oil gusher that gushed for 11 months before they were able to cap it.
President Obama continues to blame BP for this mess. But one must ask oneself, why were they drilling out so far, and so deep, so deep where conventional methods of capping a gusher won't work.
Why, because environmentalists prevented them from drilling any closer to shore.
Why - presumably to stop any oil leaks from getting to that shore.
Well, we're getting oil to the shore now. Drilling out that far and deep only exacerbated the problem.
One hopes Obama will be asked some tough questions by the press, since by his own admission he and his government were in charge of this mess since day one. Why did they wait until day 8 to try to start recruiting firebooms?
If a plan designed in 1994 had been implemented - moving several firebooms into position to burn off the oil, it would not now be endangering Louisiana and other Gulf States, not to mention the millions of suffering birds and ocean animals.
Our government - Democrat and Republican alike - are incompetent boobs. We need a total cleaning of the house to get incompetents out of office, and competents in. But how is that to be acocomplished? That's the question!
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