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The Oil Spill

The oil spill in the Gulf has been the center of the news for weeks now. The stories about how it is affecting people’s lives, killing the animals from land and sea, and ruining one of our most important natural resources are heartbreaking. Most people just assumed the oil companies had fixes if a catastrophe like this one occurred. We have found once again that our technology to create something occurred without the technology to fix problems we could not even dream about. Many are blaming the Obama Administration for this failure. Many more are saying the Obama Administration is not doing enough to fix the problem. Let us be clear, there may need to be Federal regulations made to prevent this sort of thing from happening again. But it was BP and Halliburton that drilled and managed this well, not the Obama Administration.

Right now the Obama Administration has put the following in effect:

20,000 federal personal are working to contain and clean up the spill

17,000 National Guard members are working in the four states that are affected

BP is being held responsible for all of the expenses

Working to assure nothing like this can ever happen again

Laws will be changed as needed

If laws were broken, those responsible will be brought to justice

The Federal Minerals Management Service is being split into three parts to avoid conflicts of interest

A six-month moratorium on deep water drilling

This tragedy once again shows us how important it is to find other ways to meet America’s energy needs.