Should the US Continue Off Shore Drilling Despite The Spill?

[The Troll]

Ya, I want to be like Greece and China and let the government do everything and have cradle to grave entitlements.....   China would never allow such a thing to happen and those type accidents would definitely be prevented.  Yesssssss

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[Locutus]

B.P. CEO says oil spill is relatively tiny compared to the very big ocean.  I'd like to strangle that asshole.     What a fuckin' ASSHOLE!!!

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BP chief executive Tony Hayward claims that the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is relatively 'tiny' but admits that his job is at risk over the incident blamed on his company.

Hayward told Friday's Guardian newspaper that the leaked oil and the estimated 400,000 gallons of dispersant that BP had pumped into the sea to try to tackle the slick should be put in context.

"The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean. The amount of volume of oil and dispersant we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total water volume," Hayward said.

Asked if he felt his job was under threat, he replied: "I don't at the moment. That of course may change. I will be judged by the nature of the response."

BP is facing a growing backlash in the United States as experts warn the spill may be at least 10 times bigger than an official estimate.

http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0514/gulf-oil-spill-tiny-bp-boss/

[Palehorse]

Yeah, I saw that on the news and I wanted to reach out and bitch slap that bastard! 

And that admiral of the CG needs a good dressing down as well. You see how that guy made a statement that was 180 degrees from what was actually going on?! Then he holds a second press conference where he tried to validate his ignorance and came off even worse! 

The POTUS needs to bitch slap all of them: the CG, BP, Transocean, Halliburton, then send in the real USN to show those idiots how to run an effective, expedited,and efficient catastrophe initiative! 

[me]

All I can say after reading that is WHAT??????  The two comparisons he makes to this disaster are not even close to the same thing. 

[LOsborne]

I went looking for info on whether oil-eating bacteria and microbes are being used, or will be used to help moderate the damage -- and I can't find anything except people asking the same question. And some ads for bags of the stuff to use on your driveway. This was supposed to be the ANSWER a few years ago. I remember it was used to help clean up the Exxon Valdez mess. Have any of you seen or read anything about it this time?

[Palehorse]

I went looking for info on whether oil-eating bacteria and microbes are being used, or will be used to help moderate the damage -- and I can't find anything except people asking the same question. And some ads for bags of the stuff to use on your driveway. This was supposed to be the ANSWER a few years ago. I remember it was used to help clean up the Exxon Valdez mess. Have any of you seen or read anything about it this time?

Nope. . . and I cannot imagine how many of those things they'd have to use to eat all that oil!  This thin g is already 10 times worse than the EV, if current estimates are valid!

Besides, they're more interested (BP) in a chemical solution so that they can use one of their subsidiaries to supply it and keep those billions in the family. . .

[me]

The only thing I've heard is someone who lives where oil seeps naturally and the plant life and such have adapted to it and dissipate it so they weren't worried if it came toward them.  Wish I could remember where it was. 

I went looking for info on whether oil-eating bacteria and microbes are being used, or will be used to help moderate the damage -- and I can't find anything except people asking the same question. And some ads for bags of the stuff to use on your driveway. This was supposed to be the ANSWER a few years ago. I remember it was used to help clean up the Exxon Valdez mess. Have any of you seen or read anything about it this time?

[Locutus]

The only thing I've heard is someone who lives where oil seeps naturally and the plant life and such have adapted to it and dissipate it so they weren't worried if it came toward them.  Wish I could remember where it was. 

You mention seeping.  This is a geyser.  BIG difference!

[me]

I know I was saying that was the only thing I had heard that was even remotely mentioning something like that.

You mention seeping.  This is a geyser.  BIG difference!

[LOsborne]

You mention seeping.  This is a geyser.  BIG difference!

Cut her some slack, Locutus. I asked if anyone had heard talk about using oil-eating microorganisms. She graciously related the only talk she had heard. She wasn't comparing the contamination in the anecdote to anything.

[me]

rut ro......BP got caught making the employee's on the oil rig sign a statement that they knew nothing and weren't injured before they could go see their families.  That sure doesn't sound good.... 

[me]

I went looking for info on whether oil-eating bacteria and microbes are being used, or will be used to help moderate the damage -- and I can't find anything except people asking the same question. And some ads for bags of the stuff to use on your driveway. This was supposed to be the ANSWER a few years ago. I remember it was used to help clean up the Exxon Valdez mess. Have any of you seen or read anything about it this time?

I did see on TV earlier today some company that makes something that would absorb the oil and then dissipate leaving the water clear suggested it to BP and they are tossing the idea around at their office in Houston but would prefer to try their ideas first.   They demonstrated their product and it soaked up the oil diesel fuel mixture poured into water almost instantly, which I realize it wouldn't work that quick on a spill the size of the one in question, and it was suggested long enough ago that it wouldn't be a problem now if they had gone with it.  Something is definitely not right with this picture.   

[The Troll]

I did see on TV earlier today some company that makes something that would absorb the oil and then dissipate leaving the water clear suggested it to BP and they are tossing the idea around at their office in Houston but would prefer to try their ideas first.   They demonstrated their product and it soaked up the oil diesel fuel mixture poured into water almost instantly, which I realize it wouldn't work that quick on a spill the size of the one in question, and it was suggested long enough ago that it wouldn't be a problem now if they had gone with it.  Something is definitely not right with this picture.   

  Why would BP want to spend all that money, it might cost them money.  Hell we'll just wait and let mother nature take care of this problem.

  That is what is so nice about large corporations, IT'S ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY.

[Palehorse]

Anyone else see the segment 60 Minutes did on this last night? It pissed me off to learn about the events that transpired just prior to the explosion, and that BP could have prevented this whole thing. . .

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=api

[The Troll]

Anyone else see the segment 60 Minutes did on this last night? It pissed me off to learn about the events that transpired just prior to the explosion, and that BP could have prevented this whole thing. . .

http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=6490348n&tag=api

  It is not only sickening, it's criminal.  But we had people right here of this forum, who thinks corporation can do no wrong and shouldn't be held responsable for their crimes.

  It's absolutely unbelievable what the corporations are and can get by in the predatory capitalist world we are now living in.  They have even brainwashed the poor dumbasses in this country.  The working man and woman doesn't have a chance anymore.