Guys you are really hysteric. What is 20% more oil out there? Doesn't really matter. Better try to fix it.

It's almost an additional 50,000 gallons of oil into the ocean, per day, assuming the estimates are close.

That's over 250000 gallons of oil per day, compared to the 200000.

would you have them do nothing?

If you don't know what you're doing, it's usually better to do nothing. The expected outcome is generally better.

Imagine some sort of technical product (say your car) is broken. Should someone go in there and start doing things randomly because you have to do something?

how else are you going to get your car started if you dont do anything?