Problem is that we are all to happy to have the benefits of the oil, but none of the downside when it all goes tits up. If we did not need oil so much, then BP would not have been drilling in such an inaccessible place and the chances of such a huge disaster would have been far less. The US government actively encouraged the well in the first place. The actual disaster could and should have been averted, but that is the fault of a few functionaries (some of whom died in the resultant explosion), not the entire company.