Wackydoodle asks: But can he see the flag?
"MMS (Minerals Management Service) is the most corrupt, inept, industry-dominated agency I have dealt with in 20 years," said Kieran Suckling, the executive director and founder of the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group in San Francisco. "They are incapable of regulating the industry. Maybe it's time to put them out of their misery." Two months after the explosion on that destroyed the Deepwater Horizon platform, criticism of the federal government's uncoordinated response to the blowout disaster is growing. Even using the government's conservative estimate of barrels leaked per day, the spill will eclipse Mexico's Ixtoc well this July 4th weekend when Gulf beaches are usually covered with bathers instead of toxic slime. It took 10 months for the Ixtoc well to be finally sealed. The two relief wells now being drilled towards the ruptured wellbore are not a sure fire solution either, as Chairman Edward Markey of the House Energy & Environment Subcommittee points out in his letter to Tony Hayward, BP's party-time CEO. The Deepwater Horizon spill is only eclipsed by the deliberate opening of terminal valves by Iraqi forces during the Persian Gulf war, which dumping about 460 million gallons of oil into the sea. So far the BP blowout has spewed 71.2 million gallons into the Gulf of Mexico.
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