Offshore Oil Drilling and the Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf

[Bostech]

Why dont you hear from other experts?
Well Fox news is busy with Sestak,Cooper Anderson can only do show for 3 hours and Daily Shows got only 10 minutes for it.

[Coolyfett]

Damn 64 pages of fighting?? lol holy cow how did I miss this one.....

[cybertique]

 BP announced today it is creating a new Gulf coast wildlife fund from the revenues made from the recovered oil estimated at 2 million so far, the moral equivalent perhaps of pledging that the after tax profits from a string of armed robberies will be used to compensate the victims of those robberies.

[Timkin]

That is not enough, BP.  NOT ENOUGH , MR OBAMA .. NOT EVEN CLOSE TO BEING ENOUGH.

We can put man into space but cannot cap a flowing oil well in the bottom of the Ocean (no easy feat, I would not argue)  HOWEVER, I will bet you ANYTHING there are people out there who have come up with a plan to slow it , if not stop it....and I do not think BP or Mr Obama is listening.  There is an underlying cause here.....just as there has been misinformation FROM DAY ONE about the magnitude of this.  This is sad as a Nation we are being made to endure this with no reasonable explanation as to why we were not being told upfront what was up.  Our President failed us miserably on this. He knew , and BP knew.   Its not right, fair , or acceptable.

[Timkin]

Damn 64 pages of fighting?? lol holy cow how did I miss this one.....

Hey Cooly! long time no see!  Where you been man?? did you not know there was an oil spill in the Gulf?

[Bostech]

Great news,now we got high definition video of gushing oil from pipe.

[Timkin]

BP Disaster ! in High Def!  Film @ 11!

[Bostech]

I guess people did get tired from talking about oil spill.

Got to love how Obama and stuff are having fun with water guns while oil in Gulf is spilling at 40,000 barels a day.
80 million gallons by now,not even two months into spill..trying to impress Mexicans with size of spill?

[Timkin]

Obama's response to this issue is SAD at best.  BP's addressing of this situation is criminal .

[Bostech]

You cant bite hand that feeds you.
It's obvious that oil companies run this country and president is their puppet.

[Timkin]

If this is really true , we may all have shorter lifespans than before.  I can only hope nothing like this will ever happen again.  But I sincerely believe this to be wishful thinking.

[Lunican]

New estimate: Up to 40,000 barrels a day was coming from BP well

Scientists now estimate the leaking BP oil well in the Gulf of Mexico was releasing 20,000 to 40,000 barrels -- or 840,000 to 1.7 million gallons -- per day through last week, the head of the U.S. Geological Survey said Thursday.
The scientists' previous estimate was 12,000 to 19,000 barrels per day.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/10/gulf.oil.spill/index.html

[Timkin]

Thanks for the update Lunican.  This is sickening.  The figures fluctuate (depending on which news source from which you read) as to how much they (BP)  are containing with this "Cap" thingy on the end of the well.  Supposedly sometime next week a new and improved "cap" will enable them to contain even more oil .. This would allow them to jet from the scene until after Hurricane season (If I read the news article correctly...I believe I did)  .. So do we close / abandon  Oil platforms /drilling when hurricane season comes around?? or only cleanup of ongoing spewing oil 5000 ft below the water?

[Bostech]

Which is from 40 to 90 million gallons so far,spill in Mexico was about 120 and Persian Gulf spill 420.
Another month and it will be worse then Mexico and for 10 months we will be at Gulf spill.
And this is much worse since it is deep water spill,not surface spill like in Gulf.

In mean time government is playing games with water guns.

[Timkin]

This is insulting to the American people.