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Gulf Oil Leak Plugged?
RobHart writes "The LA Times is reporting that the Gulf oil leak appears to have been plugged by the 'top kill.' 'Thad Allen, who is coordinating the government response, says the well still has low pressure, but cement will be used to cap the well permanently as soon as the pressure hits zero.'"
Obama only drinks beer for photo-ops aimed at extracting his foot from his mouth. Occasionally he might also chug one back at a bowling alley to show that he's really a common man after all....
I want peace on earth and goodwill toward man.
We are the United States Government! We don't do that sort of thing.
Good thing we waited over a month to do this.
Of course now that Apple has surpassed Microsoft to become the most valuable tech company in the world, We should be looking to them not Microsoft for solutions.
Tesla was a genius. Edison however was a overrated hack who liked to torture puppies.
to stop the leak in its entirety. the goal was to control the rate of flow and presumably the public outrage that ensued long enough to permit BP to establish functional replacement well before quickly and easily shutting down the leak. until such time oil could be extracted from the surrounding waters, cleaned up, and sent out for refining. this is called disaster recovery planning and it never entails the stoppage of work or the business.
Estimates by BP engineers stated relief wells wouldnt be ready until around this saturday and sure enough, BP has managed to stall the entire world long enough to have something ready to transition to so as not to disrupt refinery production profits.
now, had the administration taken over the well we would have seen the immediate closure of it, the worst case scenario in business terms for BP as it would have been formally branded as incompetent and likely never allowed access to another US shore again. the CEO is not the head of the company, but a powerful PR tool used by controlling boards of directors to disseminate information to key customers like the government in a timely manner, and as a feel-good effort for the general public to see. CEO's have no control over anything whatsoever and the classic mistake made by customers is assuming they ARE in control.
caspitalism continues, profit continues, and financial advisers to BP likely drove this effort in its entirety from the PR spin to the eventual shutdown of the well. To contrast: in russia the well was nuked, the company reorganized with perhaps a few executions for incompetence, and the operations resumed by better people or with more training. money never took the reigns.
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Spill, baby, spill!
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I've got to wonder, if this does work is BP going to go ahead with their "relief well".
Of course they are... You honestly expect them to pay for the cleenup and pay the politicians to get them out of this out of their pockets? Perhaps you misunderstood their meaning of 'relief'
Okay. Now explain the logic of the "Junk Shot" idea and its relation to further damaging of the valve.
I guess we will now see "spin doctors" on the media talking about how taking so long to fix the problem was necessary to prevent things from getting worse.
Here something for the "Lessons Learned" file... How about having a disaster plan *before* you drill a deep water well.
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Ah the old "I waste oil so you probably do too" fallacy. I don't drive. I cannot force others not to drive. I don't *want* to force them to stop. But I would like that not to ruin my environment. And I really believe I can have all at the same time.
Yes, a ship that ran aground in a bay and released more oil than this gulf mess has, is comparable to this gulf mess.
Perhaps ignorant people such as yourself you should do something like, umm, not comment.
"His name was James Damore."
hey, he had to golf, go on vacation, have some fundraisers, another vacation, ... shit man, you try getting anything done with a schedule like that.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
No. Sorry. I can't let this one go.
"Dear Leader" is currently gambling on losing his kidnapped Japanese girls, Playstation and VSOP. Starving, murdering, subjugating and indoctrinating millions to satisfy his own bizarre megalomaniac urges.
On one hand, the President of the United States allowed (...and was limited to allowing...) the qualified private sector engineers and managers to fix the problem that they created.
On the other hand, the President coddles the fascist rightists by keeping Guantanamo open, allowing an idiotic "no-fly" list to continue, and continues to delude himself into thinking that Karzai is the partner for conquering Afghanistan. Teabagger corporatists (do you fall into this group...hmm?) blame the President for inaction on the spill, then scream at the idea of increased regulation and oversight.
The President is flawed. BP, TransOcean, and oh...oh yes...Halliburton are at minimum not properly regulated and most likely corrupt. Kim is an insane tyrant.
You, on the gripping hand, are the beacon of logic and liberty.
Almost none of this has ever been done before at this depth. They fucked up with the dome because it was new to the application, too. But they tried the dome first because (a) it was cheaper, and (b) it allowed them to continue to collect oil from the pipe, which they can sell. In essence, because it paid for itself.
Never ascribe to engineering what can be explained by greed.
Environmental agencies are referring to the oil slick as the "black screen of death".
In their press releases, yes. In their internal memos its referred to as "the best thing that ever happened to our fund-raising efforts".
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When is the United States Government going to learn that large corporations represent a domestic enemy? They only take from the country, they do not give. This oil spill is the latest example.
Exxon paid ZERO taxes this year, yet accepted millions in subsidies. BP, for this oil spill, will no doubt have to pay a fine, but guess what, it's likely to be less than they already recieve in Federal subsidies, furthermore, if it impacts their bottom line in any way, they'll just scream "bailout", and we'll hand them money -- meanwhile, they gleefully continue to pollute, and I'm sure they pay no taxes either. So the CEO get a bazillion dollars by cutting safety measures, which boosted profit.
I'm surprised airline CEOS haven't caught on to this. You can increase profitability by cutting safety. Forget about servicing planes, that costs money! So what if a few fall out of the sky, and kill people? Hey, as long as the CEO gets paid his bonus! That's all that matters. And when the government asks you to look into the matter, you ask for Federal dollars to do it because you're too poor! And meanwhile you slip money to senators under the table to make sure no commie regulations get put on the industry because that would put Americans out of work!
America has been bought and sold, this country is over. All that's left is for the CEOs to strip mine what's left, take our remaining cash resevres, and scurry away to United Arab Emerates, like Haliburton did.
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Ahh, naturally. The ebil gubbermint held the pure, benevolent entrepreneurial supermen running BP back. If only the free market fairy would have been allowed to descend on the well and shut it down by gently slapping it with the Invisible Hand until it realized the error of its ways. If only...
Ubi solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant.
The blame game gets tiresome when Democrats are in charge. But with Republicans, open season.
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Did anybody stick a mike in Palin's face and ask her about how her "drill baby drill" bit went over? watching her squirm would have been fun. Oh and while we we were told socialism for health care is bad and wrong and evil, guess who wants to have mommy government bail out the oil spill? That's right, you good friends on the "right".
Although I don't get how they can call themselves es "conservatives" anymore, since they are pretty much the same as the Dems, blowing money like crack whores in Vegas and wanting ever bigger government. The only difference between the parties I can see is that the Dems suck the big media cock like the RIAA, while the Reps suck the megacorp and defense industry dong.
As for TFA while I'm glad they may have it stopped, now BP needs to be hit hard and forced to clean up every mile of coast they fucked up. Of course with the oil rig inspectors doing meth and watching porn instead of doing their fucking jobs a disaster like this was inevitable. Maybe we'll actually force greater accountability and regulation? Naaah, that would hurt a corporation's profits!
ACs don't waste your time replying, your posts are never seen by me.
Blame is always tiresome. But they have both been criminally irresponsible. And they should BOTH be made to pay for it.
OTOH, proving it can be difficult. But the problem is, even when the proof is available and evident, there's no prosecution of anybody powerful.
Yeah, I think Nixon should have died in jail. Clinton appears guilty of a real estate scam, but that's small potatoes.. I accept that Regan was so mentally incapacitated that he wasn't responsible for his criminal actions, but his wife and advisers weren't. Don't know about Ford. I've heard a few assertions that seem worthy of jail time, but I'm not sure. Bush is definitely guilty of many crimes. I think high treason is one of them, but that has a rather limited definition, and I could be wrong. And I'm just hitting the presidents.
I think we've pushed this "anyone can grow up to be president" thing too far.
and it takes extra time to do things when they've never been done before.
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The catch to nearly everything they've tried is "Well, we've used this technique before, just never at 5000ft depth".... These clowns were so corrupted by greed that they pushed the absolute limits of their machinery and know how and this is the result.
The sad part is that BP was at fault for the Valdeze oil spill cleanup failure as well
I KUT J00 M4NG!!!