After nearly 3 months, BP has stopped the oil volcano in the Gulf, at least to the extent that underwater cameras are showing.   It is wonderful that the gusher has stopped but there are still many questions.  Why this could not be accomplished a few days after the sinking of the rig is a question that needs to be answered as well.  Yet, the biggest question is will the oil stay stopped or has the sea floor been damaged to such an extent that oil is still leaking elsewhere?  Will this particular well fail and start gushing again?

The Gulf has been permanently damaged and the cover up of the disaster will continue, not only by BP but by government agencies as well.  There is already a massive restrictions on data that prevents scientists to fully document the extent of the damage.  The effects of the dispersant is far reaching as well.  Most animals found floating dead in the Gulf have no visible signs of oil and, of course, BP will claim it has nothing to do with the pollution in the Gulf.  This is equivalent to the smoking industry arguing for decades that smoking had nothing to do with serious illness.  All that is known right now is the scientists don’t know how or why these animals died.

Look for a bigger push to continue drilling in the Gulf, because in today’s America errors are regularly repeated.  There will be other oil disasters and the disaster of continuing to burn fossil fuels will result in more climate change and related disasters.

America is Doomed.