AND?
This is what we have to deal with as part of life if we don't want to live in another stone age.
We need oil for a lot more than to run our cars and we are living in a competitive world for more than just oil.
It isn't like we have one of these accidents happen every week/month/year - it is rare - but acceptable on many levels. The environment will bounce back, it did with other spills and other accidents. Look at what happened during WW2, how much environmental damage was done but we want to return to that time.
But like mining, where the president went down to the funeral and made a joke of it, are we going to try to reform oil safety now?
In the case of the recent mining accident, wasn't this a union shop?
Where were they with all these violations?
Why try to reform something when the regulations were being enforced?
We can't live without Coal, as much as we can't live without oil and trucking and a lot of other things. There is a risk involved with everything, some are riskier while others don't look risky at all.
