BP and oil spill

Everyone can agree that British Petroleum (BP) is attempting to do everything possible to stop the flow of oil from the ruptured pipe and since the US government has limited experience in responding to this type of oil spill they must rely on the knowledge and experience of oil companies to work on this problem. However, the US Government does have the experience and know how to deal with the oil flowing towards the coastlines of Louisiana and the other gulf states, and yet they have been slow to respond to request for action from these state governments. I hate to have to say this, but in keeping with the statement that Rahm Emanuel made last year that a “crisis should no go to waste”, the slow response by the government may be intentional in order to push their agenda to prevent oil drilling off our shorelines and in so called environmental areas. When you realize that the Obama administration wants to see a crisis to push their agenda and promote global warming, climate change or whatever they wish to call it. But the question that will go unanswered is why do we allow drilling at such depths when we do not have experience or expertise to deal with leaks? Divers can go 300 feet deep and if we only allowed drilling in this depth, this problem would have been resolved in days. Drilling off the continental shelf where the depth is within this range (up to approximately 460 feet) would present less risk if there was a similar type of rupture. But no one wants to address this topic. Wonder why?