This is probably just a random coincidence but I wonder if anyone's considered if this could be an eco-terror attack.
Obama announces a change in national policy on offshore drilling, and twenty days later a platform explodes, creating an environmental disaster. That’s pretty interesting timing.
You have enviro-wackos who already do stuff like start forest fires to try and prove why we should save forests. Why not ones who'd dump millions of gallons of oil into an ocean to save the ocean?
'Everything Will Be Examined' in Gulf Oil Spill, Officials Say: including the possibility of criminal acts or negligence.