re: #154 Walter L. Newton

I can’t believe you are suggesting that Obama shouldn’t have done this?

One month, fine. Get a handle on just how dangerous deep drilling is, or isn’t. But 6 months? Or years? On what grounds? On what authority? Just because he says so?

BP is in a category of its own when it comes to safety records. On what grounds, and with what authority, does the president ban all deep drilling, even by companies that are taking far more precautions and have far better safety records? (Which would be, well, all of them, compared to BP.)