Oil spill continues to grow

Originally posted by King Kandy
Stop. Just stop. I know you're smarter than this.

No worse than Limbaugh saying it's natural; shouldn't be cleaned up and it will sort itself out.

Originally posted by Robtard
No worse than Limbaugh saying it's natural; shouldn't be cleaned up and it will sort itself out.

Originally posted by Robtard
No worse than Limbaugh saying it's natural; shouldn't be cleaned up and it will sort itself out.

i think that fat f@#@ just says crap to get attention and doesnt actually believe it himself.truthfully though not much we can do but shut off the flow of oil which really shouldnt have bn that difficult and should have had shut off methods and emergency plugs prior.. i am thinking a free flooding ball bearing inside the pipe but it wouldnt be as efficient because i know how they like to squeeze every drop as fast as possible..corportate thinking.. and having a ball bearing would take up space and volume..

anyways all they can do is do their best by siphoning the oil via a tanker and a processing equipment and pump back out the water in a perpetual cycle.. clean the beaches

also pay off fines and ppl who have bn effected by the oil spill like fishermen..

seriously some ppl should be looking at criminal charges and massive fines and shut down of the company aint goint to happen though it only applies to the average ppl not rich and corporate ppl

Originally posted by Robtard
No worse than Limbaugh saying it's natural; shouldn't be cleaned up and it will sort itself out.

Well actually it should sort itself out if left alone, but there's no chance it will sort itself out in a way that's good for us.

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
shut off the flow of oil which really shouldnt have bn that difficult and should have had shut off methods and emergency plugs prior..

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
anyways all they can do is do their best by siphoning the oil via a tanker and a processing equipment

Probably because for every gallon of crude them skim off the water and process, a few hundred are freshly released.

i said it should have not that it would or it did,,, but if these guys had planned appropriately yrs prior with emergency methods it should have worked..imo..

In the end, shit happens, even the best precautions can fail. Not saying that excuse frees the corp from blame, but it is what it is.

Maybe some good will come of this, maybe this will drive the US (larger consumer of oil) to tear itself away from the petroleum-nipple and seek other ways to power our cars and whatnots. Okay, that's a pipedream.

you know ships and even water lines and even places like niagra falls have like a drop wall to stop flooding.

an underwater pipeline should have had key areas like small square rooms where the pipe needs to go through but that also acts like a shut off point in case of emergencies.. this isnt thinking outside the box but straight common sense.. most important transportation pipes have these types of areas.

also exec should be fined out of their own pocket as well individually not just the company..

Why do you hate America!?

Originally posted by Wild Shadow
an underwater pipeline should have had key areas like small square rooms where the pipe needs to go through but that also acts like a shut off point in case of emergencies.. this isnt thinking outside the box but straight common sense.. most important transportation pipes have these types of areas.

Originally posted by Robtard
Why do you hate America!?

what caused the oil spill in the first place?

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
what caused the oil spill in the first place?

also can oil evaporate and rain on nearby cities?

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
what caused the oil spill in the first place?

"[By] hardcore environmentalist wackos." -Rush Limbaugh circa May 2010

so they just found the pipes busted?

Originally posted by Colossus-Big C
what caused the oil spill in the first place?

BP says that the dill hit a bubble of methane and sucked it up toward the platform where it exploded.

Originally posted by Symmetric Chaos
BP says that the dill hit a bubble of methane and sucked it up toward the platform where it exploded.

ie, the Earth fought back with a fart.

I'm surprised nobody has made a thread about this yet, it's a very serious ongoing problem right now.

Peoples livelihoods are being destroyed, countless species sent to extinction, things are looking very grim right now for those living in the area of the oil spill.

"Thousands of barrels of oil have been spewing into the Gulf at a depth of 1.6km (1 mile) every day since April's explosion on the Deepwater Horizon oil rig."

BP, the corporate giant responsible for this mess has announced its own plan to stem the flow of oil:

"BP has commenced its "top kill" attempt to choke off the oil spewing into the Gulf of Mexico by pumping heavy drilling mud and cement into the breached mile-deep well. If the operation succeeds, BP would then inject cement to seal the well shut."

It sounds nice, but there is a catch: "It’s estimated a 70 percent chance of success while acknowledging the operation could result in even more breaches of the well, worsening the spill."

(Information taken from http://www.democracynow.org/2010/5/27/headlines#1).

If the operation fails even more disaster is going to plague that area.