Reply #12: No, I thought the government would allow BP to take the lead since the government isn't in the oil

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drilling business and doesn't have the people, the equipment, or any remote know how even from shallow wells to start with but be shadowing BP to assist or supplement their efforts especially if they struggled or failed. Here we are with failure after failure and it seems that the government hasn't been gathering scientists or reaching out to other corporations/governments (someone mentioned another country had/has experience with deeper wells in another thread) for help. Even more disturbing is the government isn't concerned with trying to figure how bad this whole thing is, testing, measuring the rate of the gusher etc, oh right they'd have to be watching BP to even get close to gathering any of that data. If the data has been collected BP isn't telling us and it seems the government is complacent in BP's efforts to cover up or obscure the real impact of this geyser of oil flowing into the ocean.

So no, I thought there needed to be a time for the government to let BP deal with it while they gathered resources in order to assist or take over and they don't seem to have been looking at it like that but rather BP will deal with it period. I can only hope that we get billions on billions OR trillions, whatever the cost turns out to be out of them for cleanup and impact economic etc, as well as the coast of all the government costs in sending the coastguard out there and whatever other resources the government fields to stop this.