Meh
Most of the Yanks jumping up and down hammering BP don't give a shit about the environment either. If they did they'd sell their shitty gas-guzzling cars and buy the more fuel-efficient versions made by the European subsidiaries of US car firms.

BP were drilling where they where to feed the insatiable thirst of the US for petroleum. If this happened in the North Sea, South China Sea, off the coast of West Africa or anywhere else, the US media would have totally ignored it.

Obama's line that this is like 9/11 is poor analogy in many ways but these - it happened because of the myopic complacency of the US; from the amount of noise made about it you'd think it's the first time it happened to anybody, anywhere; the reaction is going to be over-the-top, poorly directed and inappropriate, the wrong people are going to get it in the neck.
(Wilton Mitrowserz, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 17:40, 1 reply)

It wouldn't have happened in the North Sea full stop.
the specific point in the well head piping that sprung the leak would have had a couple of extra valves on fail-to-close under UK and EU drilling regs.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 16 Jun 2010, 17:43, closed)