THE BP TRAGEDY DAY 58 : FORGING A WAY FORWARD TO END THE OIL SPILL AND SOLVE THE CRISIS.....

For almost two months, crude oil from a British Petroleum well, deep underwater on the Gulf Coast of the United States and Mexico, has spilled spoilingly and unstoppably, into the ocean and the gulf. It is now estimated that at least 3.5 million gallons of BP oil has flowed into the waters and attempts to cap this gravely polluting leak have failed and it may be weeks and months more before succeeding. Meanwhile, the uncontrolled spilling oil is showing up on the beaches of the Gulf Coast. After more than eight weeks of unsatisfactory responses by British Petroleum and The White House, the latest Associated Press poll shows Americans by 52% blame the Obama Administration, and by 83% blame BP, for the oil spill and the crisis in the gulf. Many of the members of Congress and much of the American public feel this oil spill tragedy was preventable. It is indeed highly inexplicable how such a ruinous situation occurred, when oil companies like BP, have responded indifferently and failed to develop more effective means to arrest such a crisis. It is nothing more than an indictment of their focuses, as the same technology is being used in the BP Crisis, as was being used forty years ago, with no advancement invested in since the 1970's. Please God, as this current imbroglio underscores, the protection and safety of people and ecology, must be our foremost concerns; not corporate convenience and profits. In the past few days as President Obama's Administration has excelerated its addressing of accountability and a concrete solution to this tragedy, hope filled decisions and directions are being arrived at. The high profile involvement of President Obama in recent days in a directional, resolution driven manner, of deliberatins that have propelled a a more exact and necessary response of accountability and financial compensation for renumeration of the Gulf Coast families, businesses, and communities, victimized by this unbridled, precedent shattering, oil spill. Requiring BP to agree to disburse $20 billion in compensatory and clean up funds is a just and important response to the irresponsibility and indifference of British Petroleum's ownership and management that led to this grevious, life altering, occurrence. And the current political, " Drill baby drill", laissez faire proponents are being proven wrong with each day the oil spill continues; while the more than thirty five year California policy in opposition to off coast oil drilling is being vindicated. May our national leadership continue to raise the standards of business conduct required of BP and all oil companies, so that please God, another oil spill tragedy of this magnitude never happens again..........In The Spirit Of Conservation, Ecology, Responsibility, Accountability, Fr. Troy