They don't want to stop the oil

In the most deeply broken part of my heart I believe that BP and it's fellows don't want to stop the oil that is flowing from their blown out well at all. They want to capture and recover oil, not plug the leak. Until now I have held that idea close for fear of sounding like a total nut job. It turns out that I'm not the one who is sick. The sick ones are in charge.

I'm relying on the words of a really well scrubbed white guy who is an Iraq war veteran and Navy submarine officer, Christopher J. Brownfield. He is quoted in a New York Times Magazine piece by Deborah Solomon: (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/06/13/magazine/13fob-q4-t.html?ref=todayspaper)

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I’m sure you’re aware that the energy secretary, Steven Chu, appears to be opposed to the idea of blowing up the well to bring it under control.
He seems to oppose using nuclear weapons. The approach I favor is a conventional demolition, not nuclear. Any combination of explosives that could be used to break the well and bury it under a lot of rock could be effective.

Why hasn’t that been done?
I’m very skeptical about why we haven’t done it. I think the reason is that when the oil companies are in charge of bringing the solutions to the table, they are going to advocate solutions that allow them to continue recovering the oil.

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For a while I allowed expert opinion to dismiss the idea because such an explosion could create more leak sites and multiply the problem. This lie is easy to see through. We all know that the rig floated nearly a mile from the Gulf floor but that's when the drilling started. The drill hole is less than 20 inches wide and close to four miles long. No explosion we are capable of creating could blow a four mile hole in the bottom of the Gulf. A moderately massive explosion of the type that our military is so fond could easily create a lovely plug.

Another story that I've been carrying around for a while is at least as sad. The rig didn't have to collapse like it did. If the rig had been allowed to burn to the water line it never would have collapsed the riser pipe. In this scenario the disaster would at least have been located at sea level. Instead they poured tons and tons of water on the uncontrollable fire (water on an oil fire?) in what looks like an attempt to save the equipment. Certainly some rescue firefighting was urgently needed, but any talk of this crushing weight of water to save lives is another BP lie.