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Disaster looms as oil slick reaches US coast

Why are people surprised?

When, exactly, did corporate capitalists start caring about anything other than their pockets?

If anyone for a single wild moment imagined that BP was doing what it is doing to save the world, then you are sadly mistaken. ANYTHING BP is foing now is done to salvage whatever oil they can. The fact that it looks like they are failing at their heroic attempts at saving the world will simply mean they get less green publicity in the future, that's all.

Do not for a single moment ever imagine that an oil company would want to clean a spill to save the environment.
 
keep an eye on the plan by the ex-Shell Oil president to use supertankers to suck up the oil, which is apparently the only thing that has actually ever worked for spills like this in the past. at times BP has said they will consider this, but at other times it vanishes completely, and it makes a lot of sense--much more sense than anything else i've heard.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/gulf-oil-spill-supertankers-051310

and

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/bp-top-kill-alternative-052410
 
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i don't know why the supertanker idea hasn't been discussed more.

theoretically BP could still get their oil, and my state could not be royally fucked, once again. i mean atleast get the shit before it hits land and/or hurricane what the fuccccccckkkk

ps.

Hurricane Season officially starts tomorrow.
 
I would be more worried about the disprements they use than the oil itself..... The oil would just float on top....but now they have Plumes that are 20 miles plus underwater....but BP denies this but Accredited Universities say otherwise with proof..... They will not stop this for at least another 2 months....

Reporting from Los Angeles and New Orleans —
BP's plan to sever a leaking pipe as part of an effort to cap its runaway well in the Gulf of Mexico could increase flow by as much as 20%, and the oil giant has no remedy to stop up the well until August, Obama administration and company officials said Sunday.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-oil-spill-20100531,0,907235.story
 
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Kenickie said:
i don't know why the supertanker idea hasn't been discussed more.

theoretically BP could still get their oil, and my state could not be royally fucked, once again. i mean atleast get the shit before it hits land and/or hurricane what the fuccccccckkkk

ps.

Hurricane Season officially starts tomorrow.
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listening to you complain about "your state" and how its going to be fucked is making me sick.
 
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So here is the run down of what is up so far that i gathered:

BP insures Rig for 1billion when its worth around 250million

Gold Sac short sells BP the day Before The Problem

BP decides to use only Disperments from Nalco (Nalco CEO is an ex BP Ceo of 11 years)

Nalco stock go up around 20% from the news that is all they will use Even tho it has been proven to be Bad....


Something just doesn't smell right.... If you smell fire and see smoke.... usually their is a fire....
 
Jamshyd said:
Why are people surprised?

When, exactly, did corporate capitalists start caring about anything other than their pockets?

If anyone for a single wild moment imagined that BP was doing what it is doing to save the world, then you are sadly mistaken. ANYTHING BP is foing now is done to salvage whatever oil they can. The fact that it looks like they are failing at their heroic attempts at saving the world will simply mean they get less green publicity in the future, that's all.

Do not for a single moment ever imagine that an oil company would want to clean a spill to save the environment.
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nice post

the gov needs to be involved

but wait, BP owns the gov

so, we're screwed
 
bit_pattern said:
Yeah, good one, genius! Suppose you've never used plastic in your life either? Or eaten food harvested by machines and grown with fertiliser etc etc etc 8)
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Or tires on that bike ;)

BP CEO: Sickened Cleanup Workers Probably Have Food Poisoning
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=e45_1275343020


An estimated 910,000 gallons of dispersants -- enough to fill more than 100 tanker trucks -- are contributing a new toxin to the mix. Containing petroleum distillates and propylene glycol, the dispersants' effects on marine life are still unknown.

What is known is that by breaking down oil into smaller droplets, dispersants reduce the oil's buoyancy, slowing or stalling the crude's rise to the surface and making it harder to track the spill.

Dispersing the oil lower into the water column protects beaches, but also keeps it in cooler waters where oil does not break down as fast. That could prolong the oil's potential to poison fish, said Larry McKinney, director of the Harte Research Institute at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

"There's a school of thought that says we've made it worse because of the dispersants," he said.
http://www.kcci.com/news/23742747/detail.html
 
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The reason why BP isnt using supertankers is(well, this is why bp says), because 'supertankers cant get to the oil spill/close enough to the well because they are too big. They released a picture(bp did) that showed how 'damn close' all the oil rigs were together, to the point where 'a supertanker could not possibly maneuver close enough'. What a fucking load of shit.. unless supertankers are like 10km wide? :\
 
Jamshyd said:
Why are people surprised?

When, exactly, did corporate capitalists start caring about anything other than their pockets?

If anyone for a single wild moment imagined that BP was doing what it is doing to save the world, then you are sadly mistaken. ANYTHING BP is foing now is done to salvage whatever oil they can. The fact that it looks like they are failing at their heroic attempts at saving the world will simply mean they get less green publicity in the future, that's all.

Do not for a single moment ever imagine that an oil company would want to clean a spill to save the environment.
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This is what I'm saying.

This is worse than Bush in Katrina. This is of a global magnitude. There have been so many solutions that make logical sense - a large concrete block is one, explosive charges around the hole another .. but any relief effort so far has been based around retaining the oil. Guess why? LET'S GET INVOLVED ON A HUMANITARIAN LEVEL. BP sure ain't going to do it. They only need to pay $75 million no matter what happens...
 
explosives could work but I don't see how it can be done around the hole. If anything you would want explosives in a well shaft adjacent to the current one, causing a large enough movement of rock down there sideways to block the existing well. But even still, I don't know personally how much pressure we're working with and how much force it is capable of exerting. It is possible that even such a strategy could fail if oil could still find or force a way to the surface.
 
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This is how. You would effectivly be crimping off the supply by using force to push the seabed against the top of the shaft of oil.
 
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