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Tankers aren't capable of "sucking oil" up off the ocean surface. They don't have anything close to the proper equipment. What you mean is an oil skimmer, and there are a finite number of those, and they're useless unless the water is calm.
Again, who's going to replace BP here? Who, in the free market, is capable of fixing this if BP isn't? You've yet to answer that, ace. The Coast Guard has already said they're not capable of dealing with this, and they're the most likely government agency to have the resources. Who else in the government is capable of handling this? FEMA's not (not to mention that Louisiana would probably justifiably go ape-shit if FEMA showed up again). Who else?
Many of us are still saying "how could BP have fucked this up so badly?", which is where the discussion about the plan comes from. But obviously this is all the government's fault, so let's talk more about that red herring.
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