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My only question is why there wasn't some kind of preventative measure released as soon as they found out it was pissing oil/gas all over the place?

Suggestion: How about a tanker with a pump on it to suck up the water/oil and take it back to a shoreline refinery that could separate/utilize it? Sure, this won't get it all, but it could have curtailed a large portion of it so that the problems we're facing now might have been off in the future a while, still.

Suggestion: Kelp netting around projected affected area. Very expensive, but helps to prevent the millions in land/wildlife cleanup that will most certainly come at the expense of the taxpayer. (Yeah, BP's not going to give a solid answer as to what "legitimate" claims they're going to cover, nor will they mention who gets to decide what's "legitimate". Good luck locking that one down, Obama.)