I am in awe of both you and Reg.

I hope there are equally talented people looking at what has happened and figuring out how it can never happen again.

The oil companies can no longer afford, nay, we can no long afford for the oil companies to operate on a barn door closed after the horses are gone business plan.

And people must be held accountable. CEO's who allow such irresponsible measures to be taken, and disaster results, ought to lose every thing they have, not trip the light fantastic through the legal system for a slap on the wrists, while their victims lose everything they have.

China has a method of dealing with individuals who exhibit the undergirding greed or incompetence that leads to the type of disaster we're seeing in the Gulf of Mexico: Execution!

Ask the people of Valdez, Alaska what they would like to see happen to those responsible for ruining hundreds of lives?