The Oil Spill; What if this were intentional?

[Roy Smalley]

I wonder what our powers that be, the oil corporations and our federal government would be able to do if a foreign power, say one of those rogue nations, decided to sink 10 or twelve platforms out of thousands and a few super tankers all at once?

We can't even agree on anything on this oil spill except those poor folks in Louisiana, Alabama, Florida, Texas and any country that borders the Gulf Stream are in jeopardy, not to mention the consequences if there is a huge dead zone in the Gulf...which there probably will be.

Are we prepared any longer as a nation to face any adversary, when we can't even plug a damned pipe in our own back yard, and I don't car if it is 5000 feet down; how far is it to the moon or to Mars? So what is our strategic plan to forestall such an occurrence if we were attacked, and if it did happen would it be another Grocho Marx escapade? Is our military prepared? Apparently not.

And don' t think our quasi friends and enemies around the world aren't gloating....and thinking.

Yeah, we will keep having stupefying congressional meetings after meetings so these indignant posturers can rear back and pontificate, and the lobbyists scurry around like a bunch of rats squeeling for the interests of the oil industry. And the best solution they have been toying with is cap and trade to have US pay for it. Or with higher prices for petroleum products which will be a ceratainty. The tax payer will pay. UNME!

[Bill]

Roy,
I used to work in offshore oil exploration and can say that blowout preventers have always been notoriously unreliable. I can also tell you that blowouts have been successfully stopped with explosives for decades. It makes absolutely no sense why BP has allowed this well to continue to foul the Gulf of Mexico when the flow could have been stopped within days of the blowout and the well re-drilled if capturing the oil was the sole objective. It also makes no sense that the well was not imploded with explosives immediately.
Isn't it curious that the current administration is using this situation to advance it's clean energy agenda? It's like Mr. Emanuel was quoted as saying, "Never let a good disaster go to waste." Could it possibly be that this mess could have been handled very differently but the ability to take advantage of the "disaster" would have been compromised had it been? I'm just sayin'......

[Roy Smalley]

Nothing surprises me but the ability to counter a threat from a foreign power seems non existant.

[Bill]

I have the sinking feeling that our current "leader" would lay out the welcome mat to anyone who would like to take us down.