I just find it unbelievable that all the anti-oil people on this blog are so happy with our government as if it was doing anything remotely useful.

BP is struggling to shut this leak; the government seems to know crap on how to accomplish this, and it's action is to flog the people who have to accomplish this in a self-serving circus of chest-puffery.

In Louisiana where the people affected by this spill are working to protect hearth and home, the government reaction is to stop them. The Coast Guard has been mobilized against citizens until they are satisfied that the people protecting their property are up to code on life jackets and fire extinguishers and what-not; supposedly; while they, of course, do NOTHING!!

With all the oil shut off for who knows how long, and the push for Cap & Trade and the inevitable dramatic increase in the need for foreign oil, which will cause prices to astronomically skyrocket, will you then still be happy with all this posturing.

The dupes who fall for this freak show of a thugocracy are pitifully naive.