Reply #83: You are entitled to you're opinion,

[gleaner]

but I couldn't disagree more. In the case of the environment in particular we are talking about a living thing. Saying that you have to wait and see is the equivalent of wondering how long it would take to smother someone with a pillow while standing there to watch them do it. I don't think you would do that. I think you would jump in and fight to free the other person. You don't "consider carefully" while someone dies a preventable death. The effects the oil catastrophe is having on the Gulf are not isolated to that area. When the oil catches the gulf stream or the hurricanes start, it will move all the way up the eastern seaboard to Canada. The storms will blow the oil and debris from it onto land where the people will get sicker. Family businesses which deal with fishing, shrimping and tourism are gone. There is no way to replace that type of livelihood. If nothing continues to be done the people on the east coast will have to come to California to go to the beach. Long trip.

Also I don't see too much of "note" that Obama has done. I do appreciate your civility and the fact that you thought your post out carefully and made your points count. Thank you. It does facilitate discussion of areas which need to be discussed. Let's agree to disagree on this one. You have your opinion and I have mine. The problem is not either one of us. It is the die off of the Gulf of Mexico and the need to stop it as quickly as we can. The first thing is to get BP out. Letting them into the situation is like letting a fox into a chicken coop.