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To: Maurice Winn who wrote (73696)	5/26/2010 8:02:08 AM
From: carranza2	7 Recommendations Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74559

The reaction to the failed well looks like mass hysteria. The further away one is from a calamity, the easier it is to pooh-pooh it. You are as far away from it as possible. If the top kill solution does not work, it will be months before the relief wells being drilled do their job. The marshes are being slimed as we speak. They are very delicate structures, and hugely important for a large number of reasons. The mass hysteria is justified. It is entirely human to become hysterical when their homes and regions are threatened. The web site you linked in another post is a bad joke. The idiot who wrote it is clueless. He suggests that most of the effluent is methane, a joke. Even if true, there is a lot of crude being spilt as well. Although you call, reasonably enough, for the facts to be sorted out before blame is assigned, you are quick to jump to the conclusion that perhaps this disaster is not quite as bad as it seems. But there is one thing on which it is reasonable to reach a safe conclusion now: the planning for a disaster was criminally inadequate. BP and Transocean were simply unprepared for this despite the fact that a disastrous blowout is one of the clearly foreseeable risks of offshore drilling. They need to be punished for this in the most severe way possible, so that the lesson is never forgotten by any oil company or drilling outfit. There is no doubt to me that this is already a very, very bad thing. Tourism, fisheries, etc., all huge drivers of our regional economy, will suffer. Instead of jumping to conclusions on the extent of the damage done, I suggest you take your own reasonable advice and suspend judgment until we know more.