Was This the Last Plaquemines Parish Seafood Festival?

Ok so it isnt Obamas fault it happened ? Well he could start holding people responsible and bring in people to fix the leak that actually want to stop the leak . He is being controlled by the corporations that put him in office . And he does not how do they say "They dont want to ever waste a good tragedy" . They always play it to the hilt to expand government and destroy a bit more of our freedoms . I would suggest that this will lead to mass evacuations of the coasts and then they can drill without bothersome people in the area to moan and groan . Its awfully good timing for a disaster of such magnitude and with hurricane season starting it will carry this mess further inland . I feel awful for the people in Louisiana and other states that are gonna have to rearrange their whole lives over a spill that should have been stopped within the first two weeks of it happening . And why isnt oil eating enzymes being used to eat the oil ? Its more eviormentally friendly than the dispersants they have been using ?

BP stands for Barracks Pocket , he received more contributions then all others combined for last 4 presidential campanges. Barracks Chernobyl is accurate. We've been short changed.

Amazing. First people want oil and thus the Drill Baby Drill, until a disaster occurs. They also want a smaller government until a disaster occurs. Now they want to get rid of oil drilling platforms and they want more government to handle the disaster.
If the republicans had left regulation of businesses alone, this would not have happened. Seems that the "conservatives" were too liberal in letting businesses decide what and how and when things should happen and cut corners when they wanted to cut cost. Guess deregulating things is just no a wise thing to do. Kind of like running a convenience store with no clerk. You would come back to find the store empty of everything including the cash register.

Excuse me, but why not several large charges on the ocean floor and a few explosions and the ocean floor caves in the well and seals it shut? A few siezmic explosions and it is over. What is going on? Why have we not tried to blow this thing up? The weight of the ocean floor seals it shut. Come on. Get it done.

One of the questions that needs to be asked to both BP and the MMS, EPA is this. Show us the emergency contingency plan. In turn BP should have require Transocean, Halliburton and anyone else working on their well to have an approved contingency plan. But, after watching this for more than a month, it appears that BP was not prepared for a problem. There seems to have been no previous evaluations of the different methods. The thing is that the same contingency plan is applicable for other projects, even other companies. It makes one wonder how BP is structured. It is probably organized in such a way that no individual is responsible and that the organization will address any issue. As for the government agencies, they seem to have had most of the cleanup equipment and a plan and are doing OK.

This is eco terrorism at its worst. I belive this blast was caused by people who do not want oil drilling in the gulf and when this is proved the hypocrites will be exposed.

I just do not understand why every remedy or possible fix was not tried immediately. There would be some conflict of equipment but surely not much. Why were tankers not trying to recover oil at once, how many millions of gallons of the spill could have been reclaimed. If a secondary well was the ultimate for sure solution should it not have been started on day two or three? We can put a man on the moon forty years ago but can't fix this? I live on the Chesapeake Bay and my sympathy for the people of Louisiana knows no boundaries. Also let us not forget the lives that were lost during the initial explosion.

I think BP could do more to stop this oil spill than they are doing, this will impact the economy of the gulf coast for many - many years to come and BP should be held fully accountable --- seafood is going to sky rocket in price, the livelyhood of thousands and thousands of hard working people is down the tube because of the oil spill and of course the American People will suffer because of the higher prices and the limited amount of seafood that will be available to us in the future, the citizens of Louisianna has been hit hard enough with katrina and now this will impact them further, BP needs to do what's right.

This is not Obama's Katrina. This is Obama's Chernobyl. A catastrophic environmental catasrophy that will ravage the gulf region for a generation or more. This is going to cost hundreds of billions of dollars over the years. It is going to dramatically damage the culture, economy, and society of the gulf states. It is big. This isn't just "an oil spill." This is the greatest environmental catastrophy to ever hit America; one which may triple in size before it comes to an end. A gulf fund will have to be established. Barrier islands destroyed by oil will have to be artificially rebuilt. Hundreds of thousands of people will be dispersed and relocated. Homes will be lost and communities will be abandoned. A legacy of toxin related diseases will be endured by those that remain.

Here is my question... will Americans step up? It's been said that in the face of adversity we come together for the well being of our citizens. It's time to find out if that true. This spill is every bit a black Monday or a black blizzard. It is a challenge for our national character. Are we simply a collection of partisan individuals bickering over ours and what we feel is right? So far, I have seen little to give me hope that at America's core we still possess that strength of character.