Pot and kettle?

More than a touch of hypocrisy in the way America are lambasting BP over the Gulf oil spill, I feel. Remind me - who was it that gave them permission to drill there? Who was the oil supposed to benefit? Drilling for oil is a notoriously risky business, and unless you are prepared to accept at least part of the risk, you shouldn't have set the whole thing in motion in the first place.