yeah why haven't they blown up the leak already?

put explosives around the leak and blow it up so it plugs itself up.

If the solution to this problem is drilling another hole then ....... Why aren't oil companies required to drill 1-2 additional holes before something like this even happens?


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Good question. Maybe they will from now on.

I hear ya on that. But what I was referring to is the people down here that think we need to drill for oil so we don't have to buy it from the "terrorists." They don't want this disaster to put any damper on the oil industry here. The bumper sticker I saw wasn't put on the SUV because the guy is concerned about fixing the problem, or the environment. It's all political redneck propoganda.

The politicians here suck down oil, alcohol, and tobacco industry cock like nothing else. I read the news here everyday and sometimes it is a fine line from reading the onion.

I never thought I would say this, but I agree with baddog.

Watching the video is tough too.

I see 3 leaks now btw (cam angle on cnn).

Whatever their reasoning, they are correct. We can not rely of foreign oil and we do rely on oil, and will for a very long time.

Actually what I want to know is why at this point are we letting BP still try to handle this. The Army Core Engineers should be on this by now as it's major disaster for the entire gulf coastal area and likely many more places with-in another month.

Fuck BP, blame them later, the shit needs to get fixed if BP can't do it then the govt needs to step in already.

Now there is talk of setting the wetlands on fire ...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_oil_sp...ssible_cleanup


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There are a lot of dumb ideas floating around. The problem is, no one has ever dealt with anything like this before.

I thought the same thing until I read today that it is against the law for the goevernment to take over the effort to fix the leaks. Can you believe that? Sad but true - our insipid lawmakers passed a law sometime in the past that made it illegal for the government to take over a situation like this. So we get to watch the entire Gulf Coast slowly destroyed while BP fingers its own asshole.

Do you guys remember back in the late 80s, or maybe early 90s, when the COO of Exxon was kidnapped by a couple, shot in the arm in the driveway of his mansion, put into a small coffin-like wooden box and stashed in a U-Rent-It for several days. He got to spend 3 days suffering horrible pain, laying in his own shit and piss, until he finally died alone in that box. The bumbling kidnappers were my heroes then (I don't forget Exxon Valdez) and I believe it is high time someone emulated that plan with the current BP upper managerment.

That's pretty insane if that's the case on it being against the law for the govt to step in. I don't have a clue how they can possibly justify doing nothing while BP obviously can't fix it.

As far as the other thing.. I'm quite certain this kind of major disaster will be enough to set off some of a crazies in the various environmentalist movements. Nothing wrong with protecting the environment mind you but some of those guys are fruit cakes.

Shove a giant tampon in the pipe.

There is nothing the government can do that BP is not doing already.

I have been on GFY too long. Everytime I see "BP" I think of BoneProne.

Or perhaps one of the thousands who will lose their livelihoods and quite possibly their shirts because of this shit. The word crazy is a subjective term.

BP doesn't give two shits about the ecosystem. They're a fortune 500 company, which means they only care about their bottom line. Sure, part of their business is PR control, but that's just politics.

"enviro crazies" are the least of their worries. some mom and pop who are watching their whole lives destroyed by oil are going to be the ones to watch.

There's a block in my neighborhood that has a BP station on one corner, and a Shell directly across the street. One was busy, the other was not. Coincidence?