Hurricane season is upon us. The Associated Press reports that the Coast Guard is making preparations for what could he a hurricane. on its way to the BP oil spill area. A hurricane would stop all work in the area to contain the spill. Oil  could be back gushing again at full force, and a hurricane could carry the oil slick all the way up the East Coast. See the video.

BP reports that its effort to drill a relief well, which BP tells the world will stop their runaway gusher, is on target for completion by the middle of August! BP says it has to drill through 2 1/2 miles of rock. In the meantime, millions and millions more gallons of oil will have polluted the Gulf.

A poll out this week shows that most Americans, as a result of the oil spill, are sicken by what is happening in the Gulf, and want the government to reign in the oil drillers with strong regulation. The oil companies, with their lobbyists and brought media, are pushing back, with scare tactics, -- saying that America will come up short in the oil supply department, and we won't have enough oil for driving our cars and for heating our homes, if we don't let big oil have its way.. And big oil is holding fundraisers for politicians who see things big oil's way.

I don't see things getting better.