I'm from the Government and I'm here to help!

The Oil keeps spewing in the Gulf and the clean up seems to be dragging on and on with no sense of urgency.  The Christian Science Monitor identifies the top 5 bottlenecks.

1. Coast Guard red tape
2. The Jones Act
3. EPA
4. Lack of coordination between skippers and spotter plans
5. Lack of leadership from the Feds.

Looking at the list it's now common wisdom that Obama is over his head in dealing with this crises.  To me the most frustrating this has been the whole disaster could have been severely reduced it wasn't for the EPA.

"Three days after the accident, the Dutch government offered advanced skimming equipment capable of sucking up oiled water, separating out most of the oil, and returning the cleaner water to the Gulf. But citing discharge regulations that demand that 99.9985 percent of the returned water is oil-free, the EPA initially turned down the offer. A month into the crisis, the EPA backed off those regulations, and the Dutch equipment was airlifted to the Gulf."

This is insane! After a month, the damage has been done the wildlife has been destroyed. The EPA helped exacerbate the largest Environmental disaster in American history.