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Nice to know who to blame when we vote this November.
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/05…
Obama is to blame.
He said drill baby drill.
His agency kept giving waivers.
He's letting BP get away with not fixing it.
He's letting BP be in charge.
the "well" is a filament that is twenty inches in diameter at the top...it gets narrower as you go down...it goes down 18,000 feet to an oil reservoir. Contrary to the imagination of some, an oil reservoir is not a huge pool but is oil amongst sand. In any event it should be fairly simple to collapse the well and use an explosive to do it. What BP ha been trying to do is preserve its ability to draw oil ($$) out of this well; it doesn't want to wreck the well to stop the gusher.
This thing bould be turned off in one hour with a 500 pound bunker busting bomb or a torpedo. The well is three and a half miles deep (fom the ocean floor down...this does not include the 5,000 feet of water on top the ocean floor) it does not seem like forcing earth to move around down there will "blow up the entire oil reservoir plus the five gulf coast states." Oil wells have been bombed in many wars, it does not cause the entire oil reservoir down below to explode. There's too much dirt on top, and that's not where the bomb would go off.
I have no doubts BP is doing everything they can to fix the leak. Every day it continues BP looks worse so it's in their best interest to get it fixed as fast as they can. That doesn't take away their blame for this or the frustration by us at the lack of results. BP deserves our ire.
As for blaming Obama for his response, my first question to the blamer is always "what should he have done?" I've yet to see anyone answer that question in any realistic manner.
What I want from the administration isn't help capping an oil well but serious regulation and oversight for an industry that holds the world hostage.
why the fuck aren't these things all occurring at the SAME TIME?
To suggest that the Federal Government is powerless to plug a 22 inch diameter hole a mile deep in the ocean is to accept a staggering degree of ineptitude and impotence.
Otherwise known as Obama, the Community Organizer.
Start assembling the relief well platform now, while getting ready for the old concrete injection, etc. etc.
Also: is it a question of equipment? Can't any other oil companies pitch in and help out?
not to say they're handling this well (haha, well) by any means...
I keep hearing that the government has teams of scientists working on alternatives but nothing is happening except stuff that's been tried unsuccessfully on more accessible leaks in the past. That suggests that they've come to the conclusion that nothing is going to work.
I think we need to accept that nothing is going to work. Oil is going to gush at tens of thousands of barrels per day for the next few months. And large parts of the Gulf of Mexico and parts of the Atlantic are going to be ruined for years. And all of this for a source of oil that's a few percent of what the world is using.