so as of June 15 the equivalent to three hundred full tankers have been dumped into the gulf . . . . . . un . . . F-ing . . . believable

Plus the toxic dispersant's they added creating this submarine Oil slick condition. They needed to let it rise to the surface and be skimmed but time has ran out for that option protecting our shore lines.

There is a system using supertankers for huge vacuum cleaners but that was turned down long ago.

Last month, a group of oceanographers and University people estimated somewhere in the 40k to 90k range. Their estimates were dismissed, BP refused to let them measure it more precisely, and many supported BP saying the amount wasn't important.

I guess in a roundabout way it isn't, because they really have no way of stopping it, and they all knew that some time ago. Me thinks that over the next decade, companies that come up with workable solutions, newfangled devices and the like to deal with these types of spills, might be a pretty good business to be in. The only way it would work is if the companies were mandated to buy the equipment, and keep it handy to the drilling sites.

I'll bet a lot of the legislators and governors in those affected areas wish they had never opened their mouths in 2008.

incredible. I'm watching CNN. Is this thing giving way as we speak??

Obama amazes me. First he says we'll be out of Afganistan by summer time. Now he says the oil will be controlled by next week.
What does he think when he makes these timelines that aren't going to happen.

Because that's what people want to hear....it is what got him elected. I'm pretty sure I even heard him say that the Gulf would be cleaner then before this event. You would think that people would start to catch onto his BS, but they don't.

nine days has gone by and still no call from BP about my claim
Hope the bank understands,

Speaking of BS, two words: MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

It was a bit of a stretch- I don't see how we will ever get the Gulf 'cleaner than before'... I think he's just trying to reassure the people in that region that he means business when it comes to the cleanup. The $20 billion escrow fund is an amazing accomplishment- but, I wonder if it will be enough.

What got him elected was a total rejection of the party and president that have become a symbol of incompetence and cronyism. This catastrophe is but one more result of the cozy arrangements bush and cheney fostered with big oil.

drill, baby, drill.

There is plenty of blame to go around but no one has more of it than the liberals who shut off easy to access oil fields on land and forced companies like BP to drill in 5000ft of water where there is little room for error and it's about impossible to stop a leak once it has started.

Do you mean like, our National Parks? That 'easy to access' land?

Those areas need to be shut off from drilling, as does deep water stuff like this mess in the gulf.

Just because there is oil under a place does not mean we should drill for it.