The guys with best understanding of managing oil well blowouts want to keep the cap in place now that the new cap has stopped the oil leak (apparently there are now indications that oil is "seeping" from the capped well so this story is not over yet). It was to be a temporary cap until the relief well is completed; that relief well, apparently, is about a month away from reaching its objective. (An earlier story said the relief well was only days away, so who knows what the real story is?)
The Coast Guard wants to remove the cap to allow oil to go to the surface where skimmers (now that they are in place and providing lots of jobs for folks, as well as for the Coast Guard) can continue to remove the oil.
Apparently the Coast Guard is concerned that if the well is successfully capped, this will no longer be a front-page story.
I can't make this stuff up.
(Actually, it's much more complicated than I'm suggesting, but their seems to be too many chefs in the kitchen. Or is it too many chefs stirring the pot?)
Update, July 19, 2010: for now, the chief chef ("the Feds") have allowed the cap to stay on. I have kind of lost track who's in charge here.
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