Editorial: BP Finally About to Finish Well Closure

This week, BP is expected to put a permanent cap on the well that has been wasting oil and money, birds and fish and other sea life, and the livelihood of thousands of Gulf Coast residents.

Besides polluting the environment of marine and human life of the Gulf Coast, BP has wasted billions in production of oil that, complain as we do about offshore drilling, sustains our economy and our lives.

Almost everything we do runs on oil in some form or fashion. Not every thing, mind you, but to say a majority is really a giant understatement. The rest is covered by coal, nuclear energy, water, and other green energy such as wind turbines and solar panels.

It probably never occurred to BP that while company officials were racing to get the oil well dug in the first place, they failed to consider that careless work would cost them far more in monetary losses than time and money spent to be do the job right in the first place.

All that sea life, human income, and even big business profit lost for the gain of big-time fast cash by a company known to have one of the worst safety records among petroleum producers.

What a waste of intelligence.