[Think Lois would still be impressed knowing how he made it?] OK...the disaster that is the growing oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico just continues to get worse. I think it's time the president called in the big guns. Let's ponder his options. We'll start at the top and work our way down. I think it's pretty much a given that Superman could handle it. Extreme pressure of the ocean, over a mile below the surface? No problem. Crush the leaking pipe with his hands, weld a piece in with heat vision, easy. And what of the enormous amount of oil that's already spilled into the Gulf? I'm sure he's got a superpower or two that would make the biggest batch of super-lemonade from this bunch of oily lemons that our past greed has handed us. Sure, there might be a few more banks robbed during the half hour that Superman's fixing everything, but that's what the FDIC is there for, right? Oh crap...

Subsequent days will consider some of the president's other superhero-oriented options.

Quick pencil sketch and a scan. images/Drawings/Sketches/oil1.png