The Oil Spill

[ericadawn16]

The Oil spill...seriously, they haven't stopped it yet?

It's been 63 fucking days!

I know the spill in Mexico took ten months but that was thirty years ago!

In three decades, they couldn't come up with anything a little better?
It's not like they were cash-strapped or something...

(rolls eyes)

Maybe they were just too busy buying off politicians.

Comments

[maddarilke.livejournal.com]

All they've done is actually make things worse. I hate to say this, because I voted for him, but I've lost faith in Obama on this and a few other issues.

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

I'm still trying to hope because I don't know what the alternative would be.

[jackdavfan692.livejournal.com]

maddarlike- I'm unhappy with his decisions too, at least on environmental issues and to a lesser extent, the health care reform debate. In terms of the environment, I'm disappointed that his administration has included offshore drilling and "clean coal" (which, I'm sorry to say, Mr. President, DOES NOT exist) in the energy plan. I'm working on a letter regarding the former, and have yet to hear anything about the latter. Regarding health care, I'm disappointed we didn't get the public option, or something close to it, in the final health care reform bill, but I suppose something is better than nothing :/. I'll still vote for him in the 2012 election, but unless he changes his mind on some of these things, it'll be with reservations :[.

Erica- you make a good point. He may not be the enormous force for change we hoped he'd be, but he's a million times better than what the alternative would have been ***Shivers***.

[surreal-44.livejournal.com]

Nobody has developed anything better. Environmentalists, scientists, oil companies....they all failed.

Are you an oil engeineer offering suggestions?

[pktaxwench.livejournal.com]

Well, the leak is one mile below the surface of the water. We can't surive down there, much less get out a set of plumbing wrenches and fix it. They've tried several attempts to fix it. Problem is, oil is lighter than water, and as long as there is a pipe sticking down into the underground resivours, it will keep floating up. And, at such a pressure, they can't exactly cap it like a soda bottle.

Out of curiosity, if an earthquake had opened up the Earth and ruptured one of these underground resivours, who would we blame the leak on? It'd be much bigger than 6" wide then.

Re: Are you an oil engeineer offering suggestions?

[ericadawn16.livejournal.com]

Well, that would be an act of God, but this was caused by man. I just find it hard to believe we can put a man on the moon but can't come up with better ways of capping the leak and containing the oil that gets out. Maybe the oil companies should have been using more money on robot research instead of leaving that to James Cameron and ship salvage companies.