60,000 barrels of oil in the gulf, 60,000 barrels. You take some down, try to clean it up, 61,000 barrels of oil in the gulf.
I don't understand how this shit can still be leaking and why they can't fix it and or clean it up. Maybe I just don't have a good understanding of this kind of thing, but oil floats on the surface of the water. Can't they find some method of filtration or something since it doesn't mix with the water? There isn't [I]any[/I] way to bring boats through the gulf that somehow swallow up the oil and store it and bring it someplace for storage or destruction or something?
The fact that this happens makes me want to cry. 11 people dead, an untold amount of marine life and habitat destroyed and uninhabitable for a long time.
I was flying back from orlando, florida and this is what I saw out my window
[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_-_May_24%2C_2010_-_with_locator.jpg/780px-Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_-_May_24%2C_2010_-_with_locator.jpg[/img]
pretty sad really
Meh, BP isn't really at fault. There have been worse spills too.
[QUOTE=Sir Tristan;23345776]I don't understand how this shit can still be leaking and why they can't fix it and or clean it up. Maybe I just don't have a good understanding of this kind of thing, but oil floats on the surface of the water. Can't they find some method of filtration or something since it doesn't mix with the water? There isn't [I]any[/I] way to bring boats through the gulf that somehow swallow up the oil and store it and bring it someplace for storage or destruction or something?
The fact that this happens makes me want to cry. 11 people dead, an untold amount of marine life and habitat destroyed and uninhabitable for a long time.
I was flying back from orlando, florida and this is what I saw out my window
[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7b/Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_-_May_24%2C_2010_-_with_locator.jpg/780px-Deepwater_Horizon_oil_spill_-_May_24%2C_2010_-_with_locator.jpg[/IMG]
pretty sad really[/QUOTE]
Most of the oil is below the surface actually. The crude is more dense than the stuff you put in your car, It floats around for awhile, then begins to sink back down. Believe it or not, but thousands of gallons of crude oil naturally seep from fault lines world wide each year. They have skimmers to suck up whats on the surface. They corral it over to a designated burning area to be burned. But that only gets the stuff on the surface. The shit in the water column will need bigger filters. They actually have a giant oil skimmer called "A Whale" (that's it's real name I shit you not) but last time I checked it wasn't working as planned. As for fixing the actual leak, the only way it's ever going to be FULLY fixed is with relief wells, which they have been drilling for months and won't complete till around August. What they are doing now with the caps is just to collect as much oil as they can to slow the leak until they can get the relief wells drilled. This is not easy. Imagine you have a 10 foot tall glass of water with a water hose at the bottom shooting water up. Now try to stop it with a straw. Even drilling the relief wells is extremely hard. As my uncle explained it (who owns a natural gas company that drills in the Gulf) you're intercepting a foot diameter pipe with another 6 foot diameter pipe a mile and a half under ground and water. Being a future marine biologist, I'm pissed this even happened, but fixing it is no easy matter.
Aren't they not allowed to raise oil prices because it was their fault?
Everyone makes mistakes, give BP a break! Besides, all of this will be fixed soon enough!
ITS OBVIOUSLY THOSE TALY BAN ATTACKING OUR OIL SO THEY CAN KEEP THEIR OIL AND BUILD NUKES TO DESTROY OUR WAY OF FREEDOM AND SO THEY CAN PLANT COMMUNISM AROUND THE WHOLE WORLD LIKE THOSE DAMN RUSKIES ARE TRYING TO DO
OBAMA SEND IN THE TROOPS WE GOTTA STRAIGHTEN OUT THIS TALY BAN
oh look :foxnews: is on
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wD_C6fj8Z3Y[/media]
Check this out.
They could've stopped it easily, but they only see that oil well as money and don't want to lose it, no matter the cost. I was at the Destin East Pass the other day and they just have 4 or 5 guys sitting under a tent with Community Responder T shirts walking around in pants and gloves with Wal mart fish nets, picking up small bits of liter, that's it. And when Oil washes up, they just kick sand over it and hide it, not clean it up
Ooooh who lives in a pineapple under the sea!?
Sponge bobsquar pants!!!
Who died in the oil spill because of bp!?
Sponge bob squar pants!!!
[QUOTE=aires260;23349627]Ooooh who lives in a pineapple under the sea!?
Sponge bobsquar pants!!!
Who died in the oil spill because of bp!?
Sponge bob squar pants!!![/QUOTE]
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No correct option.
It was stupidity on BP's part
"That broken valve? BS, keep pumping"
OR
"MONEY MONEY MONEY"
[QUOTE=Reaver1991;23333822]I have some insider knowledge because of my line of work, and I've heard it was terrorism.[/QUOTE]
I've got insider knowledge, that the people actually on the rig running it were slackers and doing everything wrong.
It was them damn Japs.
[QUOTE=kychu24;23347228]Aren't they not allowed to raise oil prices because it was their fault?[/QUOTE]
It's about as much their fault as not keeping up with your engine and it blows out when you're on a highway and you cause a 20 car pileup
It's not BP's fault this happen.
[QUOTE=Triumph Forks;23345319]what the fuck, that's from like February
did you have that post bookmarked holy shit[/QUOTE]
that's the result of 1 google query.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;23347490]They could've stopped it easily, but they only see that oil well as money and don't want to lose it, no matter the cost.[/QUOTE]
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.
[QUOTE=TheTalon;23347490] I was at the Destin East Pass the other day and they just have 4 or 5 guys sitting under a tent with Community Responder T shirts walking around in pants and gloves with Wal mart fish nets, picking up small bits of liter, that's it. And when Oil washes up, they just kick sand over it and hide it, not clean it up[/QUOTE]
I suggest you take the issue up with them then, how can it possibly be bp's fault, if a bunch of useless local fuckwits don't do the job they're presumably being paid to do?
[QUOTE=liquid_phase;23352953]that's the result of 1 google query.
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you do realise that guy is kidding about working for the CSIS right?
because i dont think you do
TWAS DEM DAMN TERRERISTS WIT DEM IRAN IN SHIT!
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you missed the "I don't give a shit" section in your vote
[QUOTE=JLea;23354372]you do realise that guy is kidding about working for the CSIS right?
because i dont think you do[/QUOTE]
No, I totally thought he was legit. I was shocked to see that he was still at school.
:rolleyes:
Lol @ Vote. This was in no way planned, unless it was not planned by BP, because they are so screwed now. This is shitloads of money they are losing, and they now owe billions in environmental fees. Countries are going to wring BP dry of money to help pay the giant debt they are in.
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