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Originally Posted by Sabine Gallais

Why have we turned down offers from the Dutch to come over and suck up the oil so that it wouldn’t have had to turn into an ecological holocaust? Three days after BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling platform exploded in the Gulf of Mexico, the Netherlands offered to help. Ships could have set about clearing the oil using Dutch sweeping arms, but the US government didn’t take up the offer. Why?

Why are we ignoring the fact that dispersant merely acted to submerge the oil creating giant underwater plumes stretching for miles and making clean up impossible? And why is the media ignoring that BP was allowed to run the show (literally a show) and manipulate the public as to how much oil was actually coming out of that pipe? (And, STILL does as a matter of fact.) First it was 5,000 and now it’s 50,000 barrels per day. Who knows? Let's have a press conference!

It could be that the Dutch were turned down due to ownership rights, cause ya' know BP is only sucking up the oil so it can be sold by them to us. It could be that the US government isn't in the business of oil reclamation, and as such has limited resources as a military operation to do anything to help. It could be many things, thing is you are asking the wrong people WHY any of this is in our ability to answer. Try your representative who probably takes big oil pac dollars, or your Senator, who's pockets are lined with big oils dollars. We the people have no friggen clue WHY.