200,000 Gallons A Day

[RICHARD]

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.

The Earth is BIG, guys.

According to 'some people' the world has ended, so why worry?



I am kidding, the OS news makes me ill too.....but what can we do, as the public at large to seal the well?

IF all the buttwipes - people that wanted the rigs pushed father off shore are to blame, the gov't. for not putting in stricter guidlines-altho every company does cut corners-and the common folks who really do not pay attention to the world around them.

The baby gets tossed out with the bathwater.

And all of us saw him in the tub before he went out the window.

[blue]

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.

Thank you!

I know its popular, even with my own family, to put the blame on soley on BP. But the facts show that isnt the case. The blame needs to be spread all around, from the Big O, or Barry as I like to call him, to his underlings in the .GOV, to the USA companies, and lets not forget the hippies and enviro Nazis that caused BP to start looking so deep for oil in the first place when there are plenty of oil reserves on land or in shallow water.

For those that dont want to lay blame for where BP was drilling, ok. I give you the Big O, or AKA Barry. Why werent sand berms built to block the oil from making landfall days from the start of this? Why werent legal exceptions made so Dutch oil skimmers could be brought in to help aliviate this disaster? Why did the state govs affected by this oil leak have to act on their own to skim the oil only to be shut down by the Fed and .GOV?

Now why did the Big O, aka Barry, use this disaster to push Cap and tax? Why let a crisis go to waste, especially when he can make it bigger.

Now Im ashamed to say I did not know the Canadians helped bring the Apollo 13 crew home. And for their help, I give them my heartfelt thanks.

This is normally where I would do a white post but since so many get their undies in a twist over that.

Im still going to make fun of Cananada as much as possible.

[lizbud]

There is only one Big O as far as I am concerned and that's Oscar
Robinson. http://www.nba.com/history/robertson_bio.html

[RICHARD]

There is only one Big O as far as I am concerned and that's Oscar
Robinson. http://www.nba.com/history/robertson_bio.html

A GF of mine..........aw forget it.

[lizbud]

A GF of mine..........aw forget it.

A GF of yours looked like the big O, could outshoot the big O, or are
you just rambling again???

[blue]

There is only one Big O as far as I am concerned and that's Oscar)

If thats the only Big O you know....

To many jokes and none of them family friendly.

[RICHARD]

The BP guy was at yacht race and he's getting pummeled about it.

My prez was at the Nationals baseball game recently.

[Lilith Cherry]

And today while the BP guy watched the Yacht race Obama played golf!!?

[Bonny]

What does the BP guy & BO care it is Fathers Day. Let the oil plug up the Gulf it will be there tomorrow who cares?!?!?! While birds & fish die, people are now unemployed & the Gulf is one big pile of oil sludge. WHOOOPPPEEEE! For those who are unresponsible! A-- H----!

[Lady's Human]

What effects, praytell, would the presence of the CEO of BP and/or President Obama have on the situation in the Gulf?

None.

Instead of working to fix things, the people involved would be playing kiss *** with the brass.

[Bonny]

Lady's Human, I always thought you started at the top & worked your way down to the bottom? In this situration I don't thing either end makes any difference.

[Lady's Human]

I have to laugh at all the grandstanding in DC over this.

They grilled the CEO of the company about the well in question, and the media went nuts when the CEO didn't know the specifics involved with THAT well.

If they had the site engineer on the stand and he didn't know, there's a problem.

The CEO is probably an MBA or equivalent. Not an engineer, not a part of the drilling crew, he oversees the operations of BP on a global basis.

To make a military comparison, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shouldn't be on the stand answering questions about the actions of a Lieutenant in charge of a platoon, and shouldn't be expected to know the details of what the Lieutenant was doing.

[Puckstop31]

I have to laugh at all the grandstanding in DC over this.

They grilled the CEO of the company about the well in question, and the media went nuts when the CEO didn't know the specifics involved with THAT well.

If they had the site engineer on the stand and he didn't know, there's a problem.

The CEO is probably an MBA or equivalent. Not an engineer, not a part of the drilling crew, he oversees the operations of BP on a global basis.

To make a military comparison, the Chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff shouldn't be on the stand answering questions about the actions of a Lieutenant in charge of a platoon, and shouldn't be expected to know the details of what the Lieutenant was doing.

You can delegate authority but not responsibility. Something our political "leaders" would do well to remember.

So, yes, it speaks volumes to see CONgress grill him about not knowing the day to day details of how a rig runs. It just reinforces the fact that very, very few of those clowns have any idea what running a buisness is all about.


To add a military comparison... I had the 'joy' of giving a ride and tour to a 2 star general who spent his whole career in Quartermaster Corps (Supply, aka bean counter.) My very first words to him before he touched the tank. "Sir, do not touch ANYthing with out asking first. This thing is built to kill and it does not care who it kills. Also, the only thing soft in there is YOU." Ya shoulda seen to look I got. "How dare this Sergeant talk to me like that." LOL Not 20 seconds inside and he bumped his head, hard, on the Commanders sight extension. "See, I told ya so, Sir."

Big time leader who's job was to give us go juice and bullets. Does not mean he knew dookie about what happened after that. I didn't know the details of HOW the stuff got to us. I just know that it did.

[RICHARD]

Oil, Oil, Oil?
Oldie but goodie

http://spectator.org/archives/2006/01/11/oil-oil-oil

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Just heard over the weekend that Nancy Pelosi moved into her new offices, that will cost us 225,000 a year in rent. I was mad at first, then heard they were green office spaces.

That kinda sucks because she ain't gonna be in there for long.

Effing moron.

[Edwina's Secretary]

BP ignored direction from Haliburton about safety – must be Al Gore’s fault.

BP ignored the advice, complaints and concerns of its own employees about safety on the oil rig – President Obama’s fault of course!

A Congressperson from Texas who is DEEP in the pocket of the oil companies (is there any other kind of Texan???) apologized to a foreign company responsible for a hideous disaster causing major damage to this country. For what did he apologize? Because the government of the United States DARED to try and hold that foreign company accountable.

Earlier someone asked what we will tell future generation. Apparently we will tell them “doo-doo” happens especially when you get greedy, cut corners, ignore advice – especially from those who actually do the job.

And when that “doo-doo” gets really deep and really bad – blame someone else – someone you don’t like. All that matters is that your stockholders get their dividends, you don’t get too exhausted and the mess you made doesn’t dirty your yacht.

Lesson taught – whatever you do wrong – it is someone else’s fault! Just spin, spin, spin.