X Prize To Offer Millions For Gulf Oil Cleanup Solution

Jamie noted that X Prize is offering prizes for a solution to the Gulf Coast oil clean up. This is in addition to categories for mapping genomes, making an incredibly fuel efficient car, and exploring the moon's surface with a robotic vehicle.

Comments

Obvious solution

[Hatta]

All we need is to get Superman to fly around the earth in reverse, sending him back in time, when he can cockpunch Tony Hayward before any of this happens.

Jones Act?

[The AtomicPunk]

How about just dropping the Jones act and let foreign ships in to help, rather than this administration protecting its union cronies?

disclaimer: I loathed the last administration too.

Re:Prevention is better than cure

[spun]

Bush appointed people who would hire non-appointed government bureaucrats who would entrench themselves in the regulatory agencies and continue to obstruct attempts at regulation long after Bush left office. Those porn watching government officials were not lazy, they were doing what Republicans hired them to do: destroy good government.