I know the end result is that this is BP's ultimate responsibility, But very few people have asked this question: Where is the clean-up response the United States government(meaning the people we ELECT) is suppose to have in place? The oil industry has to pay billions of dollars in taxes just as we do on fuel and oil. One of the many taxes placed on the oil that is pumped in federal waters is a tax on cleanup and spill response. this is collected for the purpose of having personnel and equipment from the Government ready for such a disaster. Where is it? This would be the same as property owners paying for protection from thier local fire district thru property taxes and when theres a fire the fire district says "put it out yourself, we don't have a fire Truck and the firemen are not available". I fish offshore and this sucks, But it is an accident. Instead of fingerpointing,I hope we can all work together to come up with a quick solution.