Dateline Dayton — Every day we are bombarded with information about the BP oil spill. I am going to give you my two cents worth.

First, this is not a spill.

A spill would be a cargo ship leaking oil or someone taking a container of oil and dropping some of it into the ocean. This is a full-fledged oil well spewing oil into the water, for 24 hours of every day.

This oil leakage is not a natural disaster. It was created by man.

What actually caused the disaster probably will never be known since there are at least three major parties and many smaller players. Each will try to blame the other.

It appears none of them is capable of solving the self-created problem. Also, let’s not forget that this disaster cost 11 individuals their lives. What a shame if the underlying cause of this environmental catastrophe and loss of life was greed, as it appears.

You would think in this day and age there is someone out there who could solve this serious problem. We can send people to the moon and back, but can’t stop an oil leak. Something is wrong with this picture.

In my opinion, the CEO of BP, Tony Hayward, should be removed from his job and given community service work, cleaning up the mess for which he is responsible.

To say he wants this over with so he can get his life back just shows his insensitivity to the situation.

What about the 11 persons who died? What about the lives of their families?

This comment by someone whom I assume is intelligent just shows the corporate greed in our world today. Gone, for the most part, are the days of companies caring about their workers, the community, state, country or world.

Ongoing Support for BP

I am surprised at the number of people still purchasing gas from a BP station. If I were a BP customer, I would not be seen in one of their facilities.

I realize if everyone would stop purchasing gas at a BP station, it would have little effect on corporate and would only hurt the franchise owners and their employees.

BP sells much of its gas to other stations; thus we could be supporting BP without even knowing.

What is our President doing other than visiting?

What do we normally do in a disaster situation? The National Guard is called.

The Guard should be working on this disaster, full steam ahead, and BP should be footing the total bill.

We are supposed to be comforted because President Obama visits Louisiana.

However, he has not talked with the CEO of BP. But wait; there is daily contact – with whom? Just who is looking out for all the individuals who have lost their livehood to BP greed?

In my estimation, it’s going to take some real leadership to get this situation resolved and the cleanup completed, if that’s possible.

I don’t see this leadership coming from Washington or BP!

You realize who will be paying for this mess for years to come?

Where is the John Patterson of today?

Mr. Hennessey may be contacted at pmhenn@sbcglobal.net