We Punched a Hole in the Planet....

Flying over Earth in my mini- brain, I noticed we punched a hole in the planet and we can't plug it up and it won't stop leaking.

Where is Hans Brinker, when you need him? The Hero of Haarlem who saved his little town from drowning by putting his finger in the dyke. Novelist Mary M. Dodge in her imaginary wisdom made him come alive and when others heard the story and did not believe Hans was a true living little hero; she apparently had one of her other imaginary characters come alive to back up the story:

    "... that little boy represents the spirit of the whole country. Not a leak can show itself anywhere either in its politics, honor, or public safety, that a million fingers are not ready to stop it, at any cost."
   http://members.chello.nl/m.jong9/map12/hansbrinker.html
 
Apparently there is a lack of integrity, and public safety in America; but never a lack of politics in our governmental system.  Unfortunately it will take more than Hans's little finger; Obama and BP's big heads to stop the gushing vein of oil and gas. It will take imagination.

I know there is a solution so simple that no one thought of it. Someone must be experimenting in their sinks. Try stopping olive oil from gushing out of a pipe. Would you use dirt and water (mud), or balls and tires?

Help me out here.