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OT Drill here drill now
wrote in message ... On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:05:10 -0400, bpuharic wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 18:04:32 -0400, wrote: On Mon, 24 May 2010 12:42:39 -0700, "nom=de=plume" wrote: So, I guess you can't read... "over the past 20 years" is quite telling. Who were former oil men? Bush/Cheney. If Bush had left BP in charge of this cluster**** for over a month without any meaningful federal response the left would be losing their mind. James Carville, not exactly a GOP cheerleader, is one of the most vocal critics of the lack of federal action and lack of pressure on BP. He wants to know why we still trust BP to manage this problem. as thad allen said today, who else has the expertise? what else would be done? Maybe another driller? The point is the feds have just stood back and taken what BP says as gospel. People like Woods Hole have a lot more underwater expertise and better vehicles. There may also be other companies that could bring a lot more to bear on this. It took almost a month to get decent pictures of the blowout. I know they tried a small top hat, why not a huge one? Something like a several hundred ton concrete containment vessel that will not be floated up with a little ice and gas. Attach a pipe to that and pump that out to hold it tight on the bottom. Then bury the whole mess with another several thousand yards of fill dirt. The oil they pumped up from that would be ready for the refinery. so far no one has come up with better ideas. It seems the only people who are allowed to have ideas are the BP morons who caused the problem in the first place. the real fault was drilling in areas we could not control. That and a few major errors that violated the BP protocols. They broke the BOP and ignored it. Then they violated protocol by not plugging the well with mud when they were supposed to. This wasn't a drilling failure it was a criminal act. BTW 36 days ago Obama was still in favor of this kind of drilling, much to the dismay of his new BFF, Charlie Crist.. A couple of things. I think the gov't was severely at fault over the last 30 years. Nothing much changed when Obama took office, although Salazar did make minor improvements. Not enough, and I think he should go. I also think Obama erred when it came to calling for more drilling, as getting us off "foreign oil" has little to do with drilling off the coast... even he used that rhetoric... the oil goes on the world market to the highest bidder. We need to move to renewable sources and nuclear (problems though there may be with the spent fuel). Good grief... if France can get 80% from nuclear, we should be able to do 50%. It won't happen over night. We need to find ways of cleaning up coal (production/mining and burning) between now and then. |
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