However, it's the title that grabs me, and suggests here is the right place.
Obama: Oil spill 'an environmental 9/11'
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/us_and_canada/10307782.stm
"US President Barack Obama has said the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico will have the same impact on the US psyche as 9/11.
The disaster will "shape how we think about the environment... for years to come", he told US website Politico."
"Mr Obama said he could not predict whether the nation would make a complete transition from an oil-based economy within his lifetime, but added that 'now is the time for us to start making that transition and investing in a new way of doing business when it comes to energy'."
And the offended as usual, daily mail:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1286245/BP-OIL-SPILL-Fury-Obama-compares-Gulf-leak-9-11-attacks.html
"British families of 9/11 victims described Barack Obama as ‘cruel’ yesterday for comparing the terrorist outrage to the BP oil spill. The U.S. president said there were ‘echoes’ between the Gulf of Mexico disaster and the Al Qaeda suicide attacks which killed 2,995 people, including 67 Britons. He said that just as the events of September 11, 2001, had profoundly shaped ‘our view of our vulnerabilities and our foreign policy’, so the oil disaster would shape thinking on the environment and energy for years to come."
'Not cool'...
At least Goldman Sachs got out in time:
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0602/month-oil-spill-goldman-sachs-sold-250-million-bp-stock/
(The comments there, after a curious start but then with great pace descend into an argument over bush vs obama...)
