200,000 Gallons A Day

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Why did Barry's administration refuse help from the Dutch and their oil skimmers early on in this disaster? Why werent the artificial berms built to keep the oil from making landfall? Why did Barry wait so long to meet with BP? Why is Barry now trying to act like a tough guy with BP? Did he run out of fundraisers and golf games to attend?

Out of curiosity, when this leak is plugged is President KickA** going to plug all of the oil that naturally seeps into the Gulf?

[Lady's Human]

it takes TIME to write those scripts for the pocket 'prompter.

[IRescue452]

I've always wondered one thing? If we're sucking all this oil (and that from other companies) daily from the center of the earth, and its not being replaced, how are we changing the surface pressure of the earth by creating a giant air pocket underneath? Will the earth eventually cave in and become a giant sinkhole? Will we be able to empty a single cut-off oil pocket and then allow it to fill up with millions of gallons of water so as to replace the pressure in the pocket and to help with the problem of rising sea levels? What exactly is draining gazillions of gallons of oil from the center of the earth doing to us long-term?

[RICHARD]

I've always wondered one thing? If we're sucking all this oil (and that from other companies) daily from the center of the earth, and its not being replaced, how are we changing the surface pressure of the earth by creating a giant air pocket underneath? Will the earth eventually cave in and become a giant sinkhole? Will we be able to empty a single cut-off oil pocket and then allow it to fill up with millions of gallons of water so as to replace the pressure in the pocket and to help with the problem of rising sea levels? What exactly is draining gazillions of gallons of oil from the center of the earth doing to us long-term?

Some technques call for water to be pumped back into a well.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Some people want to nuke the well. Oh, great just what we need!! A bigger hole and the entire gulf radioactive!!!

[momcat]

[QUOTE=Puckstop31;2272425]You have said a lot of silly things in this thread. I can't ignore this one.

If you bother to read the entire post right from the beginning, you'll see that these are NOT my thoughts about BP or any other oil company. They are from a newsclip. This obviously proves if something is from the internet it just isn't true. In the future, know what was REALLY said before you say something stupid again. I resent being misquoted.

[Puckstop31]

If you bother to read the entire post right from the beginning, you'll see that these are NOT my thoughts about BP or any other oil company. They are from a newsclip. This obviously proves if something is from the internet it just isn't true. In the future, know what was REALLY said before you say something stupid again. I resent being misquoted.

OK.... So "A British official actually said keeping BP a strong and successful company is in the best interest of Britain AND the United States!"

The "actually", "AND" and the "!", were not YOUR commentary? I ask because the way the sentence is written makes it sound like the author thinks keeping the company solid is a bad idea.

That was the primary purpose of my post. If your post was a simple cut and paste from a news article, you should give credit. If it was your orginal commentary on the news clip... I in no way "misquoted" you.

[momcat]

The "actually", "AND" and the "!", were not YOUR commentary? I ask because the way the sentence is written makes it sound like the author thinks keeping the company solid is a bad idea.

No they were not!!!!! And yes, you did misquote me. As mentioned before, it was from that $*^!@&* internet.

[Puckstop31]

No they were not!!!!! And yes, you did misquote me. As mentioned before, it was from that $*^!@&* internet.

Alrighty then.

It read as if it was commentary from you. My apologies for the misunderstanding. You have just seemed to be very critical of BP in this thread. There is a lot of blame to go around.

Also, FWIW... I did not misquote you... I misunderstood your point. I did not edit what you said.

[RICHARD]

Two thoughts about the OS.

I saw some woman complaining about the cleanup crews and the story that they had some current and former criminals coming thru town.

She was paranoid and said that they had to watch each one.

Lady,

If you got some of the lazy effing kids (maybe your own) to go out and clean up a beach or two over the summer, this may not be a problem in your town,
ya fricking moron.

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I took some oceanography classes and I have to laugh at some of the projections re the cleaning up of the shorelines.

There will be tarballs on the beach, and that is because of the wave action that will make the cleanup easiers. The areas that need to be looked at are the marshes and swamps.

[lizbud]

I've always wondered one thing? If we're sucking all this oil (and that from other companies) daily from the center of the earth, and its not being replaced, how are we changing the surface pressure of the earth by creating a giant air pocket underneath? Will the earth eventually cave in and become a giant sinkhole? Will we be able to empty a single cut-off oil pocket and then allow it to fill up with millions of gallons of water so as to replace the pressure in the pocket and to help with the problem of rising sea levels? What exactly is draining gazillions of gallons of oil from the center of the earth doing to us long-term?

I woud really like to hear an answer to your question. I have no idea what
would happen.

[Lady's Human]

Mass of the earth:5.9742 × 10^24 kilograms or 5974200000000000000000000 kg.

Mass of one barrel of oil:138.8 kg (avg) 276000000 Kg of oil have leaked so far, given an avg of 40K bbl/day


4.6198654213116400522245656322185 x10-17% (read, a really tiny, infinitesimal fraction) of the earth's mass is involved.

I wouldn't worry about it.

Not even close to the mass % you lose if you pop a zit.

[RICHARD]

Not even close to the mass % you lose if you pop a zit.

I had a cyst on my rear once........

[Lady's Human]

BTW, we're not pulling oil from the "center of the earth"

It's in the lithosphere, which is the top roughly 70 Km of the earth.

The Deepwater Horizon was drilling at a depth of 13 Km into the lithosphere.



The center of the earth would be another 6500 Km below that.

http://www.geologyrocks.co.uk/glossary/lithosphere

The Earth is BIG, guys.

[Louie and me]

I have been so horrified by the oil spill I can no longer watch the news reports especially the effect it is having on wild life.
Based on all the British bashing that has been going on, I did do some research and found some interesting information.
40% of BP is owned by Great Britain.
39% of BP is owned by America.
The remaining 21% is owned by other countries.
The rig is owned by Transocean, the failed blowout preventer was built by Cameron, the cement work was carried out by Haliburton (all US companies) and only 8 of the 126 people working on the Deepwater Horizon were BP employees.
So, can we stop the blame game including blaming your President Obama.
Clearly so far, nobody has any idea as to how to stop the spill and yet I would be shocked if, just like with Apollo 13, there aren't teams all over the world trying to come up with ideas and solutions to solve the problem. This is a terrible tragedy and we can only hope and pray that a solution will be found soon.
I only mentioned Apollo 13 because this was a dire situation and as a Canadian, I am proud to say a Canadian team significantly contributed to solutions to bring the crew home safely.