200,000 Gallons A Day

[blue]

Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week...

But are you trying to equate farms that offer you a discount for fruits or vegetables that you pick yourself, to kids picking up oil/tar balls off of the beaches in the Gulf? If thats the case the kids picking up the oil/tar balls are the clear winners. Its free oil.

[wombat2u2004]

Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week.

Take a little nap Blue.....you deserve it

[blue]

Take a little nap Blue.....you deserve it

I tried, the dogs and cat said no.

[RICHARD]

Richard, Ive had a long, tiring, short week...

But are you trying to equate farms that offer you a discount for fruits or vegetables that you pick yourself, to kids picking up oil/tar balls off of the beaches in the Gulf? If thats the case the kids picking up the oil/tar balls are the clear winners. Its free oil.

My peeve was about letting the kids PLAY in the oil.

Here's the rub.

You offer discount rooms for visitors and play up the "green/ecology" slant.

Get sponsor to donate gloves, bags and other materials. Hold little workshops and get people excited about particpating in the clean up.

Say a 30% discount on room rates in exchange for helping the cleanup?

Toss in a t-shirt and a free food/bbq for a few hours of work during their stay?

"I helped clean up the Gulf Oil Spill" on the shirt, along with the sponsors names on it?

Look at Dawn Dishwashing Liqiud, long before this happened they were selling bottles of the stuff with promises of donating one dollar to the oil spill victims (birds)

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Everyone is sitting around thinking about the negative effects on the area....

If I am the governor/senator of the affected areas, I come out and play up the fact that, altho this is a huge tragedy, the area's people are not giving up.

We always try to rise above out problems.


I have said this before....there are some places on the planet that would absolutely screw up the response to this disaster, either that or shrug their shoulder and say, 'Screw it"....

Sometimes we panic way too soon and never really appreciate or apply the "GIT ER DONE" attitude that got us here.

[wombat2u2004]

A stroke of genius

How to plug the oil leak in the Gulf ...............

[Catty1]

[lizbud]

It really breaks my heart to see the damage to the birds. They show
them in tv news accounts & I feel like they should try to help them, not
just stand there and take pictures of their misery.



http://www.theindychannel.com/slides...24/detail.html

[pomtzu]

It really breaks my heart to see the damage to the birds. They show
them in tv news accounts & I feel like they should try to help them, not
just stand there and take pictures of their misery.



http://www.theindychannel.com/slides...24/detail.html

I heard on a news broadcast, that they are asking the public to NOT to try to help them, but to call in to the wildlife experts and they will come out and get them. Seems that the birds are already so stressed, that someone trying to help that doesn't know how to properly handle them, could just cause more stress, damage, and even death to these poor creatures.

It was heartbreaking to see those poor pelicans struggling to even move. Such as sad situation........

[Catty1]

Latest report says the BP riser is delivering about 10,000 barrels a day.

I looked up the equivalent in gallons, and it was 420,000.

Likely I missed something - but was the original output from the leak over 400,000 gallons?

[lizbud]

I heard on a news broadcast, that they are asking the public to NOT to try to help them, but to call in to the wildlife experts and they will come out and get them. Seems that the birds are already so stressed, that someone trying to help that doesn't know how to properly handle them, could just cause more stress, damage, and even death to these poor creatures.

It was heartbreaking to see those poor pelicans struggling to even move. Such as sad situation........

Death might be a blessing to the worst of them.

[pomtzu]

Death might be a blessing to the worst of them.

Absolutely! Unfortunately, there are already many of them that are just too far gone to be helped.

And now I heard something to the effect, that they expect the oil to keep leaking all the way thru Fall. All this is just too much to even imagine what the situation will be like by then.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

BP acts like they should get a reward because they put that cap thing on that has the vents and it's "helped some". What I want to know is WHY DON'T YOU SHUT THE DARN VENTS?!!!!!!

[Lady's Human]

(Just an assumption, I've heard some pretty outrageous figures for the pressure at the wellhead....)

Because with the pressures involved it would probably blow the cap off of the pipe, making things even worse, possibly leaving them with no way at all to capture the oil.

[momoffuzzyfaces]

(Just an assumption, I've heard some pretty outrageous figures for the pressure at the wellhead....)

Because with the pressures involved it would probably blow the cap off of the pipe, making things even worse, possibly leaving them with no way at all to capture the oil.

They may be going to make things worse all on their own. FOX News just reported that BP has decided to put a bigger cap on the thing to maybe close it further. BP is saying that it will have to take the old cap back off, which means more oil gushing again, then TRY and put a new cap on, if possible.
Lord have mercy! They are going to mess around until we have a volcano of oil going non stop.

[RICHARD]

People/tourists are taking the tarballs home as souveniers.

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Here's a little tidbit about the location/depth of the wellhead.


If we weren't as uptight about the location of the wells and not forcing them to be placed so far offshore?

The costs involved to drill would not be a high and any efforts to shut off a spill would not be as complicated.


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For those who remember the Union Carbide chemical spill in Bhopal, India that killed a bunch of people?

There was a trial held in India and the defendants were fined 2k and sentenced to 2 years in jail.

I love justice.