Gulf OIl Catastrophe Is Made Worse By Obama's Ineptness as Leader.

Regarding the Earth's bleeding of oil and methane into the Gulf of Mexico because of BP's Deep Water Horizon well; why on earth would they have used dispersants to begin with? If the oil is dispersed it will be harder to recover the oil from the ocean. And recovering it should be the goal, not allowing it to linger in the environment where marine life are harmed by it! They suggest that as much as twenty percent of it will just evaporate, but that can only happen if it is on the surface. After treating it with dispersants it hangs at various depths under the surface, where it cannot possibly evaporate.

It was a rash decision for our government to allow British Petroleum to release nearly a million gallons of chemical dispersants into the ocean in an attempt to emulsify the oil. They should have forced BP to use the disparate viscosities of oil and seawater to keep the oil in one place; on the surface, where it can easily be skimmed, or gathered and burned. Now there are multiple massive plumes under the surface at different depths that can never be removed from the environment. They are marauding death plumes for marine wildlife that happen to swim through them or have them settle upon them in their habitat.

And then there is the Obama administration's equally oafish response by refusing several offers of international help and not suspending the Jones Act, and also banning all offshore oil production for six months which hampers our economic recovery by crippling an important industry that employs hundreds of thousands of Americans with high paying jobs.

Regarding the cleanup of surface oil; the use of "off the shelf" technologies can easily handle the entire cleanup. By retrofitting ocean going supertankers with a few large high-speed centrifuges and a little old fashion plumbing, the oil and seawater on the surface can be scooped up in massive quantities, pumped into a centrifuge, spun and separated. The oil can be pumped into a hold, and the seawater can be returned to the ocean cleansed of oil. Yet none of this is being done because the Obama administration is angling for political advantage. They are seeking to capitalize on this disaster with the "never let a good crisis go to waste" mentality, and that is childishly shameful, environmentally irresponsible, and a huge political gamble that he will most likely loose.