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No...I don't think it's funny
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Click the link for a live webcam of the gulf oil spill. Kind of creepy actually...watching our possible demise by killing the food chain.
It's a bit of a worry. You would of thought they would have some sort of emergency plan for this.
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Yeah...but kind of hard to plan for something unknown. About the only emergency plan they have to is raise gas prices again...this way they won't lose what they never had anyway.And I'm surprised this isn't front page news until it's fixed...guess we're not so advanced as we like to think we are.
It's not like the fist oil platform which has had a leak, we had one a few months ago. It's never happened at that depth before but it could of and it has.
The USA needs oil just like the rest of the world. But put in the safeguards and the plans for when something goes pear shape. If you can't, then don't do it.
This is going to cost so many people their livelihoods and like you said the food chain.
Also it cost some lives. I hope BP gets their ass kicked.
So, they get a cam down there but have no way of closing the damn leak ? How perverted is that ?
There has at least been regular coverage of it on the network morning news shows, at least CBS's The Morning Show anyway. They've been showing the leak source footage, open water footage, wash up footage, having some interviews. Decent coverage overall really.
Today BP is going to try to pump mud into it, BP is estimating a success probability of 60-70%. The objective expert they've been having on regularly estimated the probability of "a little better than half and half" which I suppose could translate to around 60%. It also possible it could actually blow the hole out bigger. I get the impression that as far as they know, if this doesn't work it's likely to go on for another couple of months. So cross your fingers, today's a big day.
The Weather Channel has also been covering it quite extensively.
In the rush to collect billions in oil profits,someone "forgot" to plan ahead. Both the US government and BP have failed miserably here, with tragic consequences for the people and wildlife of the gulf. It's sad we know more about the water levels on Mars than we know about dealing with our own oceans at depth.
Almost every oil field in Kuwait was set on fire and plans were in place to deal with it, with some very brave men finishing a dangerous job years ahead of schedule.*
Now we have ONE well leaking and duh....BP has no clue what to do. Heads should roll! (after they clean up the mess)
* It doesn't take a security expert to figure out just how big a terrorist target these wells make, on land or sea.
I'm not sure it really matters. If the company pays for it they'll just raise prices to recover it (unless there's enough real competion to keep prices down), that's how it works. Either way we'll be paying for it. Ya I think BP should clean it up though and the government should just monitor it. Plus, once they come up with a new tax, it's way too easy to just leave it in place after its initial purpose is gone.
I've alway thought that was odd too. I guess "out of sight, out of mind"?
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