200,000 Gallons A Day

[lizbud]

Satellites track the oil spill.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-as-it-changes

[momoffuzzyfaces]

Now they are going to try and cut the pipe and cap it. Yea, that's a great idea! Make the hole bigger that you can't fit a cap on now. sheesh!!!

Maybe when the oil get loose in the ocean and starts killing other marine life and gets to other countries, maybe by then they will fix it.

[pomtzu]

Now they are going to try and cut the pipe and cap it. Yea, that's a great idea! Make the hole bigger that you can't fit a cap on now. sheesh!!!

Yup - and don't forget the big bucks that these brilliant engineers are getting as they try to find a solution.
All this, as people have lost their livelihood because of the money hungry oil company and their shortcuts, and ignoring the warning that a disaster was impending. They had days to shut the operation down before the explosion actually occurred, yet they chose not to. I wonder how they explain that to the families that lost loved ones in the explosion, the fishermen, restaurant owners, hotel and ocean resorts, whole towns losing tourism money because the beaches are closed, people in the cleanup crews getting deathly sick, and of course the damage to wildlife and the eco system, that will be affected for years and years and years to come........

[RICHARD]

What happened to the little kid with the finger and the dike?

With the internet they should be able to find him....

[Lady's Human]

I love this thread.

It's amazing how easy it is to play Monday morning quarterback.

Some things that truly disturb me about this?

Comments from administration officials that "They have their boot on the neck of BP".

Not a comment I want to hear from the government unless they are talking about a foreign adversary. Comments like that should NEVER be made when talking about citizens of the US.

Yep, engineer make too much money. So do accountants, lawyers, doctors, and any other professionals when they're in the spotlight for negative reasons. Want to bet it was an engineer screaming at a beancounter in the background warning them that the fertilizer was about to hit the rotary oscillator?


BTW, Nice touch, Pres. Obama. Truly impressive to skip the ceremonies at Arlington to run home for a quick vacation. The three hours in LA stress you out too much?

[blue]

I love this thread.

It's amazing how easy it is to play Monday morning quarterback.

Some things that truly disturb me about this?

Comments from administration officials that "They have their boot on the neck of BP".

Not a comment I want to hear from the government unless they are talking about a foreign adversary. Comments like that should NEVER be made when talking about citizens of the US.

Yep, engineer make too much money. So do accountants, lawyers, doctors, and any other professionals when they're in the spotlight for negative reasons. Want to bet it was an engineer screaming at a beancounter in the background warning them that the fertilizer was about to hit the rotary oscillator?


BTW, Nice touch, Pres. Obama. Truly impressive to skip the ceremonies at Arlington to run home for a quick vacation. The three hours in LA stress you out too much?

Never let a good crisis go to waste.

[wombat2u2004]

Mutant Fish Found at Site of Oil Rig Accident

[momoffuzzyfaces]

What happened to the little kid with the finger and the dike?

With the internet they should be able to find him....

Can't use the kid, he can't breathe under water!

Drilling off shore isn't the problem. Not having an emergency shut off valve is!!

[RICHARD]

Can't use the kid, he can't breathe under water!

Drilling off shore isn't the problem. Not having an emergency shut off valve is!!

In Europe all well have to be equipped with TWO valve, they are called Blow out Preventers.

IT's our own fault.

OSD can be a safe way to get oil out of the ground.

Now, everyone will use this as a deterrent to get our own oil.

It's either Drill or Cut Bait.

I sure as heck do not want to smell like fish all the time?

[Grace]

Satellites track the oil spill.

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news...-as-it-changes

That is frightening.

[pomtzu]

Another thing that I find "amusing", under the circumstances, is how it has been said (by Pres. O, I believe), that BP will pay back every penny of the cost of cleanup. First of all, who figures up what that dollar figure is? Impossible to do I believe, since this will go on for years. And who really believes that BP will pay it??? They may very well be assessed the charges, but it's going to be John Q Public - you and me - that pays in the form of higher prices at the pump, and anywhere else that their petroleum products are used. BP may not come out of this smelling like a rose, but I doubt that they will suffer much in the end, when all is said and done.

[Lady's Human]

And all that will be accomplished by the popular cry to punish the oil companies will be precisely that: Prices will be raised to pay the fines, and then the same populists will be launching a congressional investigation into why prices are so high at the pump.....

Clean up the mess and move on.

Figure out why it happened, and prevent it from happening again.

You can punish a person, but you CANNOT punish a company..........as the costs of the punishment are passed on to everyone else.

[Kater]

If you want to *do something*....

Contact your elected Senators and Reps and let them know that they will be voted out of office if they don't ban off-shore drilling this session, and provide the funding to make environmental laws enforceable.


...assuming you share my politics and absolute horror at this mess. Just my $0.02.

[Lady's Human]

Banning offshore drilling?

And you're going to heat your home in Colorado how?

I'm with Puckstop......I could easily survive living a 19th century existence, but I'd prefer not to.

Banning Nukes after TMI got us some REALLY good results..........

[pomtzu]

Banning offshore drilling?

And why aren't the oil companies drilling in shallower water, instead of 5000' deep? It has been reported that there are known oil deposits in much shallower water, and an accident such as happened, would obviously be much easier to contain/repair. Of course, I don't know the first thing about oil drilling, but it seems that would make a whole heck of a lot more sense.

You can punish a person, but you CANNOT punish a company..........as the costs of the punishment are passed on to everyone else.

Exactly!!!



I also find it inappropriate that the Pres isn't in DC this weekend!