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Greg - 5/30/2010 11:22 AM
From firediver57: why use dispersants? Doesn’t that only spread the mess in smaller sizes? Why not use a coagulant or absorbant that can be skimmed or vacuumed up? Then the oil could still be used, it wouldn’t be coating everything, and the shoreline cleanup would be collecting clumps and chunks not sand, and dead animals.

I agree, this should be used as part of the clean up effort. But stopping the darn leak should be priority number one right now. If Obama said he’s taking responsibility for this, then send in a submarine and stop it NOW!

Lets look at this from another perspective...do you think the EPA would allow a factory several weeks or months to fix a busted pipe that is dumping over 50,000 barrels of pollutants into a river every day? OR would they have taken control after a few days and stopped it themselves?

The problem here has got to be money! How can our government stand by and let a money hungry oil company attempt to fix such a horrible accident just so they have the ability to drill from it in the future? Uncle Sam should have taken over weeks ago and destroyed that well.

And here is the lasting effect: more regulations on drilling, means higher costs for oil companies which will trickle down to higher prices for consumers. So regardless of what happens WE will be paying for this mistake.