i'm not implying we don't need / shouldn't use oil.
my point is, there's plenty of it close-in, in shallow water or on land, and that is where we should drill until we can manipulate stuff 5000 feet below sea level.
as to the clean up, it's not going to happen soon, maybe not even this decade.
fortunately, organisms exist naturally that eat the stuff.
unfortunately, in doing so, they eat all the oxygen out of the water, hence the fish die.
