200,000 Gallons A Day

[momcat]

There was a newsclip today that says the UK is not happy about what they call "Britan Bashing" over the Gulf disaster. When the CEO of BP meets with President Obama later this week, he plans to make an offer: BP will hold back on their dividends if the US starts being nicer to them.

According to this clip, Britain really thinks we're making this out to be much worse than it actually is. Easy for them to say, they don't have to cope with the impact of so many job losses and envionmental devastation.

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

[Catty1]

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/11/oil...uggestion.box/


Government opens suggestion box for ideas to deal with oil spill
From Larry Shaughnessy , CNN Pentagon Producer
June 11, 2010 7:52 p.m. EDT

New London, Connecticut (CNN) -- There's no shortage of oil leaking into the Gulf of Mexico and no shortage of ideas on how to deal with it.

BP, which owns the exploded rig causing the oil leak, has solicited ideas itself, via a phone number listed to submit alternative response technology, services, products or ideas for the oil spill. But after hearing complaints that BP was not responding to solicitations, the government decided to open its own suggestion box.

"There were complaints that come to us that replies hadn't been given back, that suggestions hadn't been responded to in a timely manner," said Capt. Matthew Sisson of the US Coast Guard. "In that sense its time for us to help out."

BP's Mark Proegler told CNN the company is working with the Coast Guard to sort through the ideas that are pouring in.

"We're receiving over 5,000 suggestions a day," Proegler said. BP assesses the ideas along with the Coast Guard and others.

Sisson's regular job is commander of the Coast Guard's Research and Development Center. On top of all his ordinary duties, he has a new number one priority: to oversee the Coast Guard's effort to gather and disseminate ideas about dealing with the oil spill. His office wants to hear from anybody with an idea. It can be an idea for stopping the leak, cleaning up the coastline or saving the oil-covered wildlife.

And they promise a response in less than a day.

For Sisson, it's more than just another duty in his long career in the U.S. Coast Guard.

"I consider New Orleans my home. The Gulf is the most wonderful place in the world to me and I have never seen it like this," Sisson told CNN.

That's why he is adament that there are no bad ideas. "Some idea is out there that someone hasn't seen yet that might be helpful to the cause."

He does admit he doesn't understand some of the ideas he's seen.

"We had a suggestion to use sonic-solar technology to use anti-matter," Sisson said.

So what is that?

"We are looking into it. I couldn't tell you myself," Sisson admits.

Still Sisson makes it clear, "There are no wacky ideas."

After the Coast Guard gets the idea, it figures out which agency might be the best able to analyze the idea to see if it can really help. For example, if someone has an idea for a chemical that can help make the oil harmless, the idea would be sent to the EPA, which overseas any such techniques. Or if someone has an plan for saving oil-covered birds, the idea might be forward to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

As of late this week, the Coast Guard has received more than 400 ideas, mostly through the website www.fbo.gov.

It expects to be fielding calls, emails and website submissions for weeks or months to come.

[Puckstop31]

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

You have said a lot of silly things in this thread. I can't ignore this one.

Tell me... How is making BP die a good thing? The petroleum industry is one of very few that are actually growing and creating REAL jobs.

YES, BP made mistakes and they should pay for them.... Last I have seen, they are, on their own. You seem to have missed the fact that the oil companies are the only ones who have any idea what to do. Did you also miss that the first idea they had, one that works all over the world, is to burn the oil that makes it to the surface? It absolutley minimizes the impact on the shore. Of course, our "experts" in government denied them this. WTF to they know about cleaning up a oil spill? Other than, of course, SUE!!! INVESTIGATE.

The sophmoric, grade school "they were BAD... spank them" stuff is.... Amusing.

Did you ever wonder why BP and others drill in these risky spots when there are other sources much easier to get at?

/rant

[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.