BP Prepares Complex "Top Kill" Bid To Plug Well

shmG excerpts from the International Business Times: "Government and BP officials are hopeful after extensive preparations, but are not guaranteeing that a complex attempt early this week to cap an uncontrolled underwater oil spill from a well in the Gulf of Mexico will be successful. The so-called 'top kill' procedure that oil major BP is tentatively scheduled to attempt on Tuesday involves plugging up the well by pumping thick 'drilling mud' and cement into it. While it had been attempted on above-ground wells, it has never been tried at the depths involved with this spill, nearly 5,000 feet below the surface."

Comments

Re:And how would you do that?

[rrohbeck]

The last thing you do is act like social psychopaths in search of money at any cost and continue.

Yes! I'd rather they acted like a good capitalist business in search of money at any cost and continue.

Re:And how would you do that?

[rrohbeck]

Of course. I'm a taxpayer. That's how the system works. Privatize the profits, socialize the losses. Obviously the majority of voters has liked this system for the last couple of decades, otherwise they might have done something about it.

Oh and you may need to have your sarcasm-o-meter recalibrated.

Re:will they pay ?

[mgblst]

Oh no, increasing oil prices, that is the worse thing in the world.

You know, the only action that is guaranteed to reduce the amount of oil we use, so that we need less rigs like this. No, can't have that.

Fuck you!