Hot off the Ap wire, a few minutes ago:
Rep. Henry Waxman said his committee's investigation into the Gulf oil spill revealed that a key safety device, the blowout preventer, had a leak in a crucial hydraulic system. The California Democrat said in a second day of hearings into the spill that the investigation also discovered that the well had failed a negative pressure test just hours before the April 20 explosion.
oh theres your problem right there, the blowout preventer was malfunctioning.

SO all we have to do now is just come up with a way to check
the blowout preventer all the time and make sure that the
blowout preventer is 100 percent functioning on all the
oil rigs. the blowout preventer was the problem. yup.
bad blowout preventer.
fixed it.
