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.

[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.