Obama did make a speech a couple months back talking about how deep drilling was safe. It doesn't make it his fault but it does put egg on his face.
It doesn't matter though.
Governments of all stripes and vintages thought (/hoped/were assured that) that this kind of spill wasn't possible or regulations would have been tighter. It took a series of failures in every one of the redundant safety systems out there to have caused this spill. Obviously this means that safety systems need to be even more redundant and perhaps need some third party oversight to make sure they are adequately maintained.
The net result from this is that there will be less offshore drilling in areas controlled by first world countries because it will be made to be more expensive, making some targets uneconomical in the short term. The result is that the US and all other oil importing nations will import even more from the middle east and africa and other more exotic locales and the next disaster of this sort will occur there instead of here.
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