200,000 Gallons A Day

[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.

[momcat]

After almost 50 days, nothing seems to be getting any better. It's obvious that BP doesn't know what they're doing yet they continue to minimize the extent of this disaster. While BP plays trial and error, massive amounts of oil continue to leak into the Gulf and irreparably damage fragile ecosystems.

So many things have gone wrong. I have a hard time believing technology to at least partially resolve the situation doesn't exist. Technology has intruded into so much of our daily lives, why isn't it being used for something good for a change?

President Obama could have jumped on this right from the start. When this first started, why did he not call a meeting of engineers, oil company experts, environmental experts, and other scientists to accurately assess the full extent of the disaster and develop a plan to effectively deal with this?

So many residents along the Gulf Coast have lost their livelihoods along with their way of life, protective barrier islands are disappearing because plant life is destroyed, wildlife are dying. All this because BP chose greed over safety and corporate responsibility.

On a personal level, the worst part is the feeling of absolute helplessness. All I can offer to the fine folks along the Gulf Coast who have already lost so much are my prayers.

[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?