And we will all keep buying gas from them or someone doing the same thing and we will LIKE IT!! Period. Like the drug wars, demand drives the need. Until a significant portion of the nation throws their car keys in the gulf and starts walking, or riding their new horses, there will be a need and demand for gas and this is the only way to get it!
This is all still an accident that statistically was going to happen somewhere. Tragic yes, but until we discover some other cheap efficient means of moving about, drilling will continue and there will be other spills. Minimization of future events is all that can happen.
That or shut the doors and close the country.