Originally Posted by macro

The majority of people have no problem with that. What we do have a problem with is, Litigation first, solutions later. As POTUS he has powers he can exercise to help facilitate the solutions, like temporarily rescinding the Jones Act to allow foreign vessels to help clean up the spill, to which he said, 'no thank you' (probably not that politely), executive orders to keep the EPA and Unions at bay allowing some of the ideas put forth by a multitude of people and companies to solve the clean up. We don't need endless studies to find out the environmental impact of these solutions. The oil is a big enough impact on the environment to trump that. Out of 1000 'crackpot ' ideas on how to fix the mess there may be 3 or 4 that may actually work on such a large scale. How do we know without checking them out? The mentality of the administration of "never let a good crisis go to waste" is very damaging. His speech was all about how to sell 'Cap & Trade' or whatever they call it today. All the 6-month moratorium on deepwater drilling did was to break the contracts of the deep-water rigs and allow them to pull up stakes to go and drill in Brazil and Venezuela. They won't be back. That means more profits for Hugo & others and more of our money going to others. I also hope you were able to divest your portfolio of any oil stocks because retirees & investors that have BP or others are going to take a nasty hit. But then I wouldn't want to confuse you with the facts, your mind is probably already made up.