BP round-up

• Steve Pearlstein praises the company.

• Mark Perry examines the role of regulation in promoting deep-water drilling, looks at accident trends and posts a good question.

• Don Boudreaux provides some perspective.

• Economist Gary Wolfram discusses risk and reward in the energy sector.

• Jesse Walker looks at regulation and the Republican response. Walker's colleague Matt Welch notes the horrible environmental records of some very, very regulated societies.