Why hasn't the US Navy (not the coast guard) used a couple of well placed torpedoes to close that entire oil field??

 My first thoughts? Not enough damage has been sustained. The population needs to be reduced to 500 million.

Are we looking at anything besides an oil gusher here?

Seems to me that we are being shown how much oil there really is. How many of this type of well would it take to supply America with all the oil it needs?

I truly don't know. But if this gusher continues, there might be a point where it will be evident that there is so much oil that we should have a pump price of gasoline near 25 cents a gallon... except that it is being hoarded by the oil companies to keep the price high.