News From DC

I'm at a coffee shop yet again.  My plan is to do some video editing, although I havn't done any yet.  I've been chatting with my contact in DC, Grady Lenkin.  He's been sharing with me his opinions and ideas around the oil spill.  in short we talked about government's reliance on BP to solve the crisis, the magnitude of the oil's impact, and both our different perspectives which have been influenced by our location.  First off, grady said that congress could be stepping up more, and that if we don't act extremely soon we will have missed our chance to change the outcome.  Grady says, "the problem is that everything just moves so slowly here".  The response needs to fit the urgency of the need, which is very large.  As I write an untold amount of oil is spewing out of the well and more places are becoming affected.  Who knows if the beaches that have already been hit will recover from what has already hit them.   Every day we waste is very valuable...  With respect to bp it is a new frontier of disaster management.  Never before has anyone had to deal with a disaster of this nature.  I am hopeful, but things also seem very gloomy.  The government should step in and give fixing this problem the respect that it deserves.  As Grady alluded to, the politicians that are talking the talk about solving this crisis need to connect their words to their action and DO SOMETHING!

Sign by local Grand Isle teenager, Hanna Lemoine, age 17