HI,
I find it hard to believe that BP's engineers haven't got a worse case backup scenario for this type of blow out, that could be implemented within a couple of days or why the wellhead didn't have a predrilled blowout header that could be final drilled and the wellhead plugged in about a week.

It is called risk analysis and management, someone has slipped up or management have taken a short cut, either way it is slack.

>http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/06/07/gulf.oil.obama/index.html?hpt=T1
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>Obama isn't a scientist, nor is he an engineer. (And for that matter, he doesn't know much about his own area, the law). But all indications, he's ignorant on all issues of science and technology - which is perfectly fine, so long as he's smart enough to stay out of the way of people who are experts. But of course, he can't resist doing the one thing, the ONLY THING, he knows how to do, in his self-aggrandizing way - issue orders, point fingers, and make threats.
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>But the problem is that reality doesn't respond well to presidential threats.
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>An energy analyst with Agora Financial recently said this: If you could control an oil spill with lawyers and regulation-writers, and by signing papers and obtaining court injunctions...then maybe the US government could do something. But really, Uncle Sam has almost no institutional ability to control the oil spill. For that, you need people with technical authority, technical skill, and firms with industrial capabilities."
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>But Barack Hussien Obama has a different plan...his Secretary of the Interior, Ken Salazar, with his recent quote, "We will keep our boot on their (BP's) neck until the job gets done."
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>That's all Obama has to offer - not a single idea how to "plug the damn hole", just the threat of the govt boot on their neck. Because Obama can't actually do anything else, he's desperate to be perceived as doing "something", like threatening the use of govt force and a criminal probe - which dragged down the stock market over fears of arbitrary government action
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>His job isn't to focus on the details, to help find solutions...his job isn't to think. His job is to give orders.
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>Almost makes me wish we had George Bush back.