Stop The Leaks, Play Blame Game Later

It is easy to blame British Petroleum. Make them the bad guys. I hope a serious investigation is being launched. Were any of the rig workers complaining about unsafe practices?


Am I so naive to think that the explosion, burn and consequential oil spill was a true accident? How ironic that just two weeks after President Obama declares that careful offshore drilling will be permitted in the gulf and off the coast of Florida, that this horrific accident happens.

Word of the day: woeful

It is inconceivable to think that possibly one of the environmentalist radical fringe groups wanted to prove a point so a plot to blow up one of the oil rigs was planned and carried out. Everyone on the oil derrick was too busy trying to put out the fire or save lives. Probably no witnesses. This is what the morning show DJ I listen to thinks. It never occurred to me, but I am inclined to consider this notion. Someone will have a conscience to deal with, maybe BP maybe not.

Pro life fringe radicals think they are protecting life by blowing up clinics and killing those inside.

It is catastrophic what will be happening to the gulf states in terms of the wetlands that have been protected and groomed for many years. We have seen what happens to wildlife when they come in contact with crude oil. Remember the Exxon Valdez? It's been 20 years but the Prince William Sound will never be the pristine bay it once was. Not to minimise PWS, but there was just beach...in Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and Florida there are swamps and grassy wetlands that will be like a sponge when this oil slick arrives. And we all know you can never completely clean a sponge.

But aside from the coast lands, animals and fish...what about the people. Not only did 11 people die on the burning oil rig, but many people will lose their entire livelihoods, possibly for generations, because of this. Just as the people of the gulf states are beginning to see the light at the end of the Katrina tunnel.

"We're sitting here half praying and half with our fingers, toes and everything else crossed,"

Byron Encalade, president of the Louisiana Oysterman Association in Pointe A La Hache,

who lost five boats when Hurricane Katrina hit in 2005.