Good Idea, Bad Idea - BP

So I feel compelled to make a post about the BP oil leak thing. I do not, however, feel any compulsion to do any research on the topic, so if its not accurate, don't bother emailing me to let me know.
 
Good Idea - Drilling for Oil in The US
 
No, really. Despite how you might feel about nature conservation issues, drilling for oil in the US is a good idea. I mean, I'm all for foreign trade, and it certainly does help the world economy, which we are (for better or worse) tied to. Foreign DEPENDENCE however, is not our friend. I mean, does anyone really want to be dependant on anyone else? Like, even as a teenager, you desperately wanted to be independent of your parents. Granted, you didn't realize how hard that would be once you were, you know with that whole having-to-get-a-job thing. Paying bills, buying and making your own food, doing your own laundry. Global dependence however, is more of a "Do what we tell you or live without gas for your peoples' cars" kind of thing though. Like, do we really want a lot of sheiks having something over our heads? I mean, I'm sure they're cool enough dudes with their solid silver cars and crazy palm tree islands and such, but sheiks? I mean, just the fact that this country still has a governmental system so ridiculous should make us stop and wonder. The point being, drilling for our own oil, even if its just some of the our national usage, is a good idea.
 
Bad Idea - Everything that BP has Done Leading Up To and Since This Disaster
 
Ok, here's where things get icky. Like, how did they manage to get one of these oil rigs to SINK? Have you ever seen Mega World, or Really Big Stuff, or Stuff That's Big, or How They Make Big Stuff, or Giant Crap? (which are all real shows on Discovery HD by the way)(at least it seems that way)(ok, I might have made up a couple of them). These things are MASSIVE. Like, the-size-of-a-city massive. And they're designed to withstand like 4 simultaneous hurricanes convalescing on their exact location. But one little spark and the whole thing goes down in flames? So bad engineering of the structure aside, why is there oil just gushing out of the ground? Like, the pumps should be off (I assume someone was smart enough to try that solution first) and oil doesn't naturally just GUSH out of the ground. If its really that easy, why do we need the giant rig in the first place? Just run a big tube from the ground in the ocean to the land. We'll deal with it there.
 
So, bad engineering and unnatural phenomena aside, lets look at BP's ideas for fixing the problem. First, the dome. BluePrints Blog has been recently given the actual engineering blueprints for the "Giant Dome" idea, done by BP's chief engineer. In a BluePrints exclusive, here are the images:
 
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No really, that's about how well thought out that idea was. I mean, the thing fell apart while they were trying to get it into position. Brilliant. Then there was the "Lets try to set water on fire" idea, which simply said, lets burn the oil once it reaches the surface. Needless to say, that plan worked flawlessly.  Then there was the much anticipate "top kill" procedure, which I know almost nothing about except that like all of their other plans, it failed.

Suffice to say, this oil leak isn't stopping any time soon. In fact, BP likely would have learned from its mistakes, but the US Government (in its infinite wisdom) has now stepped in to fix the problem. 2 years and 18 committee meetings later, we might get a solution (you can't expect them to work more than a couple days a year, they have golf schedules to keep and interns/hookers to bone)(was that a little too crass?)
 
And that was another edition of Good Idea, Bad Idea.