Freezing leaking oil in Gulf of Mexico

[Gary]

The problem with having the oil industry's leading experts working on this is that experts do things strictly by the book.

If they do it by the book and it doesn't work out, they did the best they could.

If they resort to unconventional methods and it doesn't work out, they are the reckless idiots who screwed the pooch.

Experts are not innovators and innovators are not experts. This is as it should be for most situations, but sometimes they need someone who thinks outside the box.

Or perhaps a collaboration is needed, with an innovator coming up with ideas outside the box and an expert who makes those ideas fit within the box... so the pooch doesn't get screwed.