""True, there were subcontractors, whom you want to blame, when it was BP management who were complaining that the drilling was taking too long and costing too much money, so they order the drilling crew to speed things up. When the drilling crew objected, saying it was not safe to do so, the BP paper-pushing desk jockeys threatened to replace them.""

Like most of the others on this thread, you are ignoring the fact that drilling was over!

Please explain the relevance of BP's insistence on faster drilling, when, after drilling had finished and the drill been removed, the blowout preventer (Not made or installed by BP) failed, and the rig which was under the control of Transocean at that point, blew up.

I have repeatedly said that BP bear ultimate responsibility, but, Transocean and Halliburton should not be allowed to walk away Scot free.

The situation is analogous with the Torrey Canyon affair, in that in both cases, those dirctly involved walked away untouched, while the buck stops with the major contractor who made the mistake of employing them.

BP immediately announced that they would foot the total bill, but your Media had to put the boot in out of their usual motive. "Screw the truth, sell copy"

Those same vultures will be nowhere in sight when the leak is stopped, and BP is spending the next ten years working to repair the harm.

After all, GOOD news sells no papers.

Don T.