great things come from hard work and long hours put into it!

This spill goes to show you the technology that goes into the development of natural resources to keep this country running and provide the standards of living that we are all very accustomed to.
Whether it be drilling for oil/natural gas or building dams and wind turbines or other sources to create energy, there is so much knowledge and thought out ideas that go into the production of these projects. The physics and actual reasoning is way beyond the normal lay persons knowledge. Producing energy and converting it into usable form and the actual processes that go into these measures is something that the country takes for granted.

Drilling for oil a mile down in the GOM is not building your kids tree house in the back yard.

I am not trying to condone BP on their efforts, but I feel confident that the decisions and ideas and thought processing going into the resolution of this oil disaster is adequate. I am not an engineer nor a chemist or physics major, but I can read all the “shoot from the hip” reports that CNN, MSNBC, FOX, ABC, etc… wants to feed to the general public.

You think that a major disaster / oil spill like this can be cleaned up in a week or month? Give me a break, we didn’t just find oil last year and send out a rig 5,000 feet deep in the GOM to get some more. We have been exploring oil for the last 100+ years. We have advanced to the drilling of deeps in the ocean of 5,000 feet over that time

Like everything good and worth achieving, comes with hard work and time. This conception that people have that great things come from the government on the snap of dime and the printing of money is becoming delusional.