Lew, I've long believed the greatest tragedy of the whole Deepwater Horizon disaster has been the sheer amount of crude oil that has been wasted. No oil producer — major, minor, or wildcatters — would be happy about that, or would have done anything to cause this disaster given the potential losses involved. To my understanding, BP may have been careless, but no more so than they were in many other deepwater wells that did not go kablooey.
