Comments about ‘Why no public access?’

The answer is simple, of course -- BP doesn't want evidence of the damage it caused to become public. BP is protecting itself and its executives . . . and the people can go hang.

The bad part of this is that Police and Coast Guard types are enforcing "BP Law", not the laws of the United States. They may well find their agencies do not stand behind them when they get sued as individuals for violating the Constitutional rights of those they are forcing away and denying access.

Why no public access? and what the giant talking heads are not saying. Gulf oil spill, Obama will whisper into the ear of CEO, Tony Hayward after a few beers in the White House and say, pssssst after seeing Colorado and Utah have as much oil as Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Venezuela, Nigeria, Kuwait, Libya, Angola, Algeria, Indonesia, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates combined. That's not science fiction. Trapped in limestone up to 200 feet thick in the two Rocky Mountain states is enough so-called shale oil to rival OPEC and supply the U.S. for a century. Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp., the two biggest U.S. energy companies, and Royal Dutch Shell Plc are spending $100 million a year testing new methods to separate the oil from the stone for as little as $30 a barrel. The U.S. imports two-thirds of its oil, spending $300 billion a year, or 40 percent of the record trade deficit. Every $10 increase in a barrel of crude costs an American household $700 a year. BP doesn't want evidence of the damage it caused to become public. It wants a mass coverup.

That shale oil isn't cheap to get. They have to pump nasty chemicals down to crack the shale and thin the oil. Unfortunatly they've had problems polluting ground water with the chemicals they use in the fracking process.

If they could get that oil profitably for $75 a barrele they would be.

My advice is save ANWAR and shale oil for our grandchildren to pay off OUR debt when oil id $1000 a barrel and China is willing to come get it themselves.

Of course they will ruin Utah in the process....