This sums up the Deepwater Horizon nightmare perfectly
Of all the snap shots I've seen of the Louisiana shoreline and the Gulf up to now, this picture with the aid of Gerald Herbert for the Associated Press drives home the factor maximum bluntly.
The AP misidentified this damselfly as a dragonfly, however the factor stays that not anything's secure from this spill. Scrubbing your bathtub with a 1/2 a grapefruit and a few salt may not do something for repair this or alleviate it.
This spill is the end result of an enterprise that regulates itself and the quit end result of 30 years of "business friendly" government rules. Encouraging investment and innovation is a great thing, but that now not what "seasoned-business" means. What that expression method is to permit multinational agencies to run roughshod over some thing that stands of their manner. That's at quality short-sighted and worst criminal. It's also been the de facto operating method of america on the grounds that approximately 1981. Hearing the birthday celebration it's spent the last 30 years systematically dismantling the EPA and whatever that smacks of a law complain that the contemporary administration isn't doing enough is a stage of hypocrisy I find difficult to accept as true with. Hearing the party that stood by means of and let it show up trying to assert itself is almost as bad. This isn't approximately political parties, it is approximately a deeply incorrect concept of governance.
This spill is bigger than BP, it is bigger than the Minerals Management Service, it is larger than the EPA and it is bigger than the entirety of america Federal Government. This is a catastrophe of a scale never before seen and one a good way to play out inside the Gulf for years and decades to come back. And for what?
Industries cannot alter themselves. Repeat after me. Industries cannot adjust themselves.