Guard watches coast for oil slick's first wave

[over the mountain]

Originally Posted by firstdown

I guess its just me as I have never really been very good at standing around watching people as they try to get something done and I usually jump right in. My thinking is the goverment have how many scientist, architects, developers, engineers, etc... so why not pick the best of them and have them down there trying to figure out a way to help stop this leak. The more people we have working on this problem the quicker we will get this thing shut down. Or we can just let BP use their limited amount of people and maybe wait another two months while they drill a new well. I do believe BP is trying their best but having more people working on a solution cannot hurt one thing. Hell they are allready on the pay roll so why not use them.

watched a news segment on the oil disaster the other night.

seems, like alot of us have said on here, the gov't has said they do not have the equipment or expertise to deal with an underwater oil eruption.

what i dont get and what the news touched on is, now that the oil is reaching the coast, why cant the gov't, private sector and local communities work to clean up and deal with the oil coming near the coast and let BP deal with the underwater situation?

they interviewed some locals who said they wish they could get the green light to start their own clean up project but, as of then, BP was in control of the coastal clean up as well and the communty couldnt take any action? that just doesnt sound right.