Well, as the saga of shutting down the well gets played out in the media, we're seeing more and more articles turning to the 'who do we blame' aspect of the story. 

Interestingly, the media is making this out to be a difficult question which leads me to think about the place of morality in this catastrophe. You see, for me, the only real legitimate area to place blame is squarely on the backs of the oil industry. 

Yet there are articles pointing fingers at Bush and Obama, about the MSS and the American people, the British people and Ken Salazar. Basically, everyone is to blame. 

The oil industry meanwhile seems like the puppy that wet the carpet. Sort of big and dumb and didn't know better. 

The truth is, the oil industry are the ones who insisted they could drill safely in these areas. They are the ones who -- in their hunger for profit -- drilled for oil a mile under water's surface. 

They knew it was a calculated risk, one they were willing to take, and one that is now biting them on the behind. They were willing to take the moral risk of this kind of drilling. 

There's that word again - morality. Yes, they are drilling to make money because of our oil addiction, and yes, there are watchdogs who were asleep at the switch, but the action of drilling - and the horrible accident caused by that drilling - exists because the oil industry does not have a trustworthy system of morality.