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Control the well itself. we have done nothing to improve the primary control device which is the blow out preventer. we still have that almost 50% failure rate that you and i have talked about before in deep water. if something does go wrong, there's a chance the well will lose control. there's a couple of well containment organizations that you mentioned in your introduction that is in place. the thing that everyone ignores is the fact that there's a massive drilling rig that sits above these wells in 5 or 10,000 feet of pipe that goes from the rig to the ocean floor. that has to go somewhere...

You don't know how to get on top of the well head if you have a rig laying on top of it, and that's something the industry simply hasn't dealt with. >> in terms of the overall politics and response in terms of the country, you've written a book about this disaster, you and i talked about it while it was going on, and we have sense talked about the political response and the technological response by the companies, what do you think it would take? if it wasn't the bp disaster, what do you think it would take? would it take anything in order to get us to mobilize as a country on the safety side ...