It's the classic whodunnit: a crime of massive scale was committed in the Gulf of Mexico, and all of the suspects have wildly blamed each other. The ramifications of the crime are sill being felt across the coast, and don't show signs of going away anytime soon.
In the Gulf of Mexico, sea-faring birds who once were brown are now a matted black, slick with oil. Beaches around the coast are punctuated by clumps of sand glued together in thick, greasy globs. Attempt after attempt has been made by BP and others to control and stop the spill. Today, the "top kill" method was employed, a last-ditch effort to clog the hole before the situation worsens. Top kill is a plan in which BP will bombard the hole with heavy "drilling mud" in an attempt to end the flow of oil. If this is effective, cement will be sent on top of the mud, hopefully binding the site permanently.
As President Obama embarks on a trip to Louisiana to assess the damage, it is imperative that a closer look is taken of those who were supposed to be regulating BP's off-shore drilling habits. Regulators at the Department of the Interior allowed BP to drill at an ocean depth that, while profitable to oil companies, is completely unsafe for the environment. If something goes wrong that far into the ocean, there is virtually nothing that can be done to reverse it.
Moreover, BP's rig wasn't anywhere near the deepest drilling. Oil companies are allowed by the US government to drill at much lower depths in the sea than BP did. If the BP spill is difficult to fix, imagine the position America would be in if a disaster occurred at two, five, or ten times the depth.
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