There was an argument between BP and Transocean hours before the explosion, ending with a BP official telling Transocean to do it their way, and a Transocean manager saying "I guess this is what we have a blowout preventer for." BP apparently had the last word. 

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They're beginning a new attempt to cap the oil spill. Hope and pray that they'll be successful. http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/26/gulf.oil.spil/index.html?hpt=T1 (By the way, for those of us who are not big fans of President Obama, there's a real temptation here to try to put some blame on him. But it doesn't belong there. And it didn't belong

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