On Sat, 17 Jul 2010 20:41:11 -0400, Kurt Ullman
wrote:

In article ,
mm wrote:


Right. What I'm saying is it should have been conceived, designed,
and built years ago.

Then why didn't you?

I don't work for the oil company. If I did I would have taken my
responsibility seriously, although they might have prevented me from
doing what was needed.

If it was so obvious, except of course in
20/20 hidnsight.

Do you think it takes 20/20 foresight to make provisions for leaks?

I agree it takes some time, but I've heard no one say they were
contracted for less than a month after the leak started. Plus there
are skiimmers already built for that purpose. If they ordered some
immediately, I would think they would be talking about that. Because
they have commercials which give plenty of opportunity to say what
they are doing, but they don't say anything specific.
People were doing stuff within the first couple of days at the
site and starting to set up at the beaches, etc., soon thereafter.

There's stuff, and then there's more the stuff they could have done.