The major differencde between Katrina and now is that with Katrina there was this National Response Plan that the Bush administartion developed after 9/11 which wasn't followed and with the oil spill the only folks who have the resorces, assets an know-how are the oil folks themseles...

...or maybe someone expects the federal government to creat a Department of Oil Spills, fund it with a couple hundred billion dollars a year and get into ther oil spill business??? I mean, sure, if folks want to use federal tax dollars that way then I'd say that the federal government should just take over the oil industry entirely... I mean, if folks wnat the government on the hook for the risks why not have it also be there for the profits???

B~