I was listening to an interview with an attorney for several of the deepwater horizon employees. There was a great deal of pressure on the drilling crew because they were behind schedule. At one one, they drilled through a rubber gasket and there were handfuls of rubber coming up at the platform. They asked a supervisor about it and he said not to worry.
There will be lots of blame to spread around.
I think the federal governments response to this has been despicable, but the oil companies have got to bear the real blame. Unfortunately, the consequences only are paid by the American people, especially the folks on the gulf coast. I truly hope this can get arrested before it gets too out of hand. If it isn't already.