Should the US Continue Off Shore Drilling Despite The Spill?

[The Troll]

    Just a sit'n and a watch'n and a wait'n.   

[Sandy Eggo]

Of the thousands of people who've come forward with big ideas for cleaning up BP's oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, one company has come forward with a giant idea it claims could collect hundreds of thousands of barrels of oily water per day and make a whale of a difference.

The A Whale skimmer, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, is seen anchored on the...
The A Whale skimmer, billed as the world's largest oil skimming vessel, is seen anchored on the Mississippi River in Boothville, La., June 30, 2010. The ship is the length of 3 1/2 football fields and 10 stories high, and is designed to collect up to 500,000 barrels of oily water a day through 12 vents on either side of its bow.
(Patrick Semansky/AP Photo)The company's massive skimming ship currently floating off the Louisiana shoreline is called, literally, "A Whale," and with good reason. The 1,100-foot long tanker is 10 stories tall, stamped with a blue whale on the side of its bridge, and has been specially retrofitted by its owner, TMT Shipping of Taiwan, to collect oil from the Gulf.

I heard about this on the news this morning. Apparently the ship is sitting there waiting for clearance from the Coast guard and EPA to go in and start cleaning. Apparently there are safety concerns because it needs a 1/2 mile radius to operate safely and there are other ships and equipment currently in the way.

I'm sorry, I don't know what's involved, but get them the hell outta there and let this thing go to work. It can separate 500,000 barrells a day and can operate 24 hours because other ships can hook up and empty the tanks.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-super-skimmer-whale-promises-cleanup/story?id=11067664

[Palehorse]

I heard about this on the news this morning. Apparently the ship is sitting there waiting for clearance from the Coast guard and EPA to go in and start cleaning. Apparently there are safety concerns because it needs a 1/2 mile radius to operate safely and there are other ships and equipment currently in the way.

I'm sorry, I don't know what's involved, but get them the hell outta there and let this thing go to work. It can separate 500,000 barrells a day and can operate 24 hours because other ships can hook up and empty the tanks.

http://abcnews.go.com/WN/bp-oil-spill-super-skimmer-whale-promises-cleanup/story?id=11067664

Exactly what my previous  comments in response to the cries to "bring in all available ships from around the world" was alluding to. . . These ships are not bayliners and cannot stop or turn on a dime. An increased density of similarly sized watercraft will exponentially increase the likelihood for additional incidents that will magnify the environmental and human cost of this disaster.

[The Troll]

Exactly what my previous  comments in response to the cries to "bring in all available ships from around the world" was alluding to. . . These ships are not bayliners and cannot stop or turn on a dime. An increased density of similarly sized watercraft will exponentially increase the likelihood for additional incidents that will magnify the environmental and human cost of this disaster.

   And also you don't hear about BP hiring any of the other 1600 American skimmers we have, do  you.

[The Troll]

Exactly what my previous  comments in response to the cries to "bring in all available ships from around the world" was alluding to. . . These ships are not bayliners and cannot stop or turn on a dime. An increased density of similarly sized watercraft will exponentially increase the likelihood for additional incidents that will magnify the environmental and human cost of this disaster.

  Just think how the oil spill would have been handled if we would have had McCain and Palin runniing the show.  Give her a boat a net and she would have gathered all of the oil up by herself.     

 

[Sandy Eggo]

Gulf Spill Pictures: Toxic Oil Found Just Under Beaches

[Palehorse]

Gulf Spill Pictures: Toxic Oil Found Just Under Beaches

And it is only going to get worse. At best we've got another month of this spewing, and no one knows how many billions of gallons are still lurking out there beneath the surface, just awaiting a huge storm to drive them ashore. . .

[Palehorse]

STILL SPEWING!

[LOsborne]

But Palehorse, didn't you read the press release that says they'll have the sucker capped on Monday? And they are ahead of schedule on the relief wells. And the oil currently on the beaches gives them such a lovely sepia-tone effect. Besides, y'all eat too much shell-fish anyway. Mark my words, one of these days the world with Thank BP for this serendipitous happening.

(gag. I have to go wash my mouth out with Jack after that.)

[Palehorse]

It makes me so sick it is beyond belief. . . And the whole thing is going to be repeated before those in our justice system and a certain political party finally "get it". . . .

[The Troll]

It makes me so sick it is beyond belief. . . And the whole thing is going to be repeated before those in our justice system and a certain political party finally "get it". . . .

  PH, in watching "Count Down" Friday evening.  They showed a animation of the new cap for the gusher pipe.  I is just like the one I had envisioned in my own little brain.  I can't get over it, it is almost exactly like the one I had picture in my mind and sketched on paper.

  Unless one of the subs operators screws up, this will work.  I wonder how long they have been building it.  It surly wouldn't have taken 8 weeks, working 24 hours a day to build it.  They just wanted to be sure they had the other wells in place.  Their going to be there until the whole pool of oil under the Gulf is empty.  Millions and millions of barrels.  That aught to cover some of the bill on clean up and reseeding the Gulf of it animal, sea life and plant life to the Gulf.

  We're going to have to reseed the whole damn place.  Remember the reseeding of White River.

[Palehorse]

I heard a statement by Tony "the Liar" Hayward, that said "once the relief well(s) punch through, both of them will have drilling mud pumped down through them until it comes up the broken well, then concrete will be pumped into all of them and the wells will be shut down and abandoned. No further oil will be withdrawn".

I don't believe that for one second. . .

[The Troll]

I heard a statement by Tony "the Liar" Hayward, that said "once the relief well(s) punch through, both of them will have drilling mud pumped down through them until it comes up the broken well, then concrete will be pumped into all of them and the wells will be shut down and abandoned. No further oil will be withdrawn".

I don't believe that for one second. . .

  Why should would they, why would they want to.  Therrr's gold in them dare oil pools

Let them pump and let them pay.  Or take the wells and get someone else to pump the oil for us and the U.S.A.
 
You know that sounds like a good idea.  Take the wells and the money they make.

[me]

I heard a statement by Tony "the Liar" Hayward, that said "once the relief well(s) punch through, both of them will have drilling mud pumped down through them until it comes up the broken well, then concrete will be pumped into all of them and the wells will be shut down and abandoned. No further oil will be withdrawn".

I don't believe that for one second. . .

His nose should be about 50ft long by now and still growing. 

[Palehorse]

His nose should be about 50ft long by now and still growing. 

The weight of the bad karma he has coming his way is ponderous!