Reply #6: exactly what apparatus was at the administration's disposal to deal with this rupture?

[islandmkl]

...the lack of oversight was inherited, and obviously not addressed with haste...but is there some secret method the military has to deal with this?

the fucking corporations that endeavor to pursue these 'techniques' to procur their mighty resources ARE SUPPOSED TO ENSURE THIS DOESN'T HAPPEN...

you can point your finger at the Interior all you want...the truth is that BP got away with all that they could, BY DESIGN...

'just the cost of doing business'....

Obama might be blamed, but the truth of the matter is unavoidable...the oil industry entrenched itself so deep that a housecleaning won't cure the problem...

it's going to take a total demolition of the section of Interior overseeing this industry...and, maybe thankfully, this situation brings everybody to the realization of what the oil industry has been able to accomplish, AT OUR EXPENSE, for the past 20 or 30 years....

it sure as hell hasn't provided cheap oil-based products, has it?

but the stockholders are happy...so there you go...