texasparamedic wrote: Although BP is financially responsible for this accident, they should not be in charge. When I was a firefighter at a house fire or a accident scene, i did not let the property owner call the shots.
I know this is a very complicated issue, but obviously BP is not capable of fixing this problem. That became evident in the first couple of days after the initial disaster. The ineffective handling of this leak by the Federal Government is the result of the American people electing a community organizer to be President. Obama has done nothing more than look concerned and make stern statements.
Why we have not called a national emergency meeting and brought together scientists from the U.S. oil companies, and NASA, to come up with a solution is beyond me. NASA has some of the best scientific minds in the world, particularly when it comes to problem solving. I certainly don't expect Obama to have the answer to this problem, but he needs to take control of the disaster away from BP and bring in some scientists who can engineer a solution. Actually this should have been done on day 2 or so. 52 days into the spill and all we have is tap dancing by BP and stern condemnation from Washington, but no attempt to use our countries vast physical and intellectual resources to engineer a solution.