*** BP drilled at an unstable site over a huge methane gas pocket in very deep waters.
*** BP CEO Tony Hayward dumped his BP stock 2 months before the spill.
*** Goldman Sachs dumped BP stock and shorted Transocean stock the day before the spill.
*** The drilling crew knew the annular blowout preventer was damaged and BP didn't have it repaired.
*** BP changed the drilling fluid from the mud to seawater (seawater is 40% lighter than the drilling mud). This is not logical and the rig superintendent said it was suicidal.
*** Obama didn't take action for at least three weeks after the spill.
***BP was allowed to spray the highly toxic chemical, Corexit 9500, which is up to 10 times more toxic than the oil itself.
*** Obama sent SWAT teams to production platforms and drilling rigs.
*** Obama sent the Army and National Guard for suppression of investigative reporting of the spill.
*** 22 countries have offered help in spill control and cleanup but Obama and BP declined their offers.
*** BP and Obama have declined to use non-toxic microbes as a clean-up measure.
*** BP's Kazula invoked the Fifth Amendment under congressional questioning of his orders to switch drilling fluid.
Russia had 5 uncontrolled blowouts. They drilled a relief well that intersects the wild well and placed and detonated a nuclear device (which slid the formation across the wild well bore, choking it off) and were successful.
*** Obama refused Russian help.
Three days after the BP oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico began on April 20, the Netherlands offered the U.S. government ships equipped to handle a major spill, one much larger than the BP spill.
Spill Response Group Holland, told Radio Netherlands Worldwide said each Dutch ship more cleanup capacity than all the ships that the U.S. was then employing in the Gulf to combat the spill.
To protect against the possibility that its equipment wouldn't capture all the oil gushing from the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, the Dutch also offered to prepare for the U.S. a contingency plan to protect Louisiana's marshlands with sand barriers.
To the Dutch offer of help, the U.S. government responded with "Thanks but no thanks," and the Dutch government offered the use of its equipment at no charge.
Even after the U.S. refused, the Dutch kept their vessels on standby, hoping the Americans would come round. U.S. had also turned down offers of help from 12 other governments, most of them with superior expertise and equipment --unlike the U.S., Europe has robust fleets of Oil Spill Response Vessels that sail circles around their make-shift U.S. counterparts.