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Disaster looms as oil slick reaches US coast

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Do you think this will ultimately bankrupt BP? Will this create a push for non-petroleum technology that changes our lifestyles?

Or are Americans so hungry for oil that it will be just another blip on the radar ten years from now?
 
Kenickie said:
i honestly feel terrible for our president.

talk about the worst time to be president, evar

like nooooooo bones about it

his schedule must be like:
get up
not let ____ bomb _____
fight two wars (kinda)
keep the koreas away from each others throats
talk about disarming nukes
deal with this oil shit
bitch slap that glenn beck fool over insulting my daughter
smoke a cigarette
rub one out
sleep

stressful shit d00d
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I know, poor wittle guy. Awwww, I feel so sorry for him. Awwwwwwwwww :( :(
 
holy jesus shit

If the escaped crude had been distilled into gasoline (9 million gallons of gas) and pumped into a Honda Accord, and you started driving it continuously from Los Angeles to New York and back (you could make the round-trip 50,000 times), then:

If you hit the road when Columbus set sail for America in 1492 and never stopped — not even to use the restroom over that half a millennium — you would be running out of gas about now. And that's based on the government's low end estimate of how much oil has spilled (12,000 barrels a day).

If you use the high-end spill estimate (19,000 barrels a day), you had better refill the travel mug with coffee, because you will be on the road for 300 more years.

Footnotes and assumptions: A barrel of crude typically yields 20 gallons of gas (the rest becomes other petroleum products).

Google Maps says the driving distance between Los Angeles and New York City is 2,787 miles and the travel time is 1.85 days. A Honda Accord averages an EPA estimate of 31 mpg on the highway.
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Jeebus Mic said:
Do you think this will ultimately bankrupt BP? Will this create a push for non-petroleum technology that changes our lifestyles?

Or are Americans so hungry for oil that it will be just another blip on the radar ten years from now?
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Naaah, I'm pretty sure that their profits for 2009 still eclipse the estimates (at least the early estimates) of how much this would cost them.
 
^they will not be paying the actual damage in any case. This will really show which politicians are bought.
 
where is thefucking outrage guys

the third coast is being turned into fucking beaches of tar

its not a natural disaster

it's like katrina - all this is man made fuck ups

is it just cuz no one died yet?
 
i feel like i should be sandbagging with my mom in NOLA :(

i feel somehow like this is all being understated.

like

driving to los angeles and nyc 50,000 times?!!?!?

MINDBOGGLING
 
I think the nation is uniformly appalled. However, it hasn't really effected most people so they give it a cursory think, maybe damn a few politicians or companies, and carry on with their day. Once the true devastation on a global scale actually takes place, we will see MAJOR action on many different levels. Since there is a very good chance that this stuff will sweep the east coast, go through Nova Scotia, then end up in the British Isles and the Baltic, Europe and Canada will probably be major players in the compensation game.

BP is going down hard. They just pwned themselves royally. The executives will probably profit somehow (because this is a sick world as of right now), but the company itself is finished.

The people of the gulf are in big trouble. Anyone who has their wealth stored in the natural environment of the area is about to lose everything. This means fishing and tourism for sure. Homes and businesses drawing their value from their proximity to the ocean will soon follow.

The impending global economic collapse just picked up major steam. An immense amount of wealth has been eliminated from the world. I liken it to the dust bowls effect on worsening the first Great Depression. Interesting that both events have been caused by human greed and abuse of the environment.

If you have money and you are cool (haters, please don't take this advice), buy value in other areas that produce shrimp. The price is about to go up a lot.

We're about to greatly advance our knowledge of how to deal with toxins in the environment.
 
nah people will still go to New Orleans to get drunk

they just won't go to mississippi to gamble anymore

and the gulf takes care of its self

as it always does cuz no one else gives a fuck

maybe a couple hellvacious hurricanes
 
Yeah cos NASA have so much experience with deep sea drilling 8) =D But you're right, the gubberment does need to take over, force BP to hand over their equipment and let other experts get to work.

And every time somebody mentions bloody BP forum I always think they're referring to me for half a moment. "No idea? I'll give you no id... ohhh, right, right"
 
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