Beyond annoyed at BP

[melchar]

I'm really ticked off. The 'efforts' they are making is a BP smokescreen. They NEED to seal off the volcano of oil. What BP is doing are experiments to protect their gusher for later exploitation.

So BP tries to put a big cap on the gusher with a pipe to suck out the oil. Fail. Now they are going to try a smaller, heated cap to suck out the oil. Wanna bet that's going to fail as well? If THAT doesn't work they have said they'll cram stuff down the hole in an effort to clog it [and likely get propelled cannon-like shot instead]. THEN they plan to drill a 2nd hole to 'ease the pressure'.

Are ANY of these an attempt to SEAL off the area? Of course not! Then the remorseless bast@rds wouldn't be able to get at the oil. As a result it will be months of this pissing around until they are ordered to SEAL the darned thing off and likely 20 years of the Carribean being a dying sea.

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[howeird]

I can't get up much anger over BP's inept approach to the job. My anger is directed at our governments, past and present, for not having a FEMA plan tested and in place for this kind of event, and for not requiring a containment device in place and deployable around all the rigs. And I have a hard time feeling angry about the mechanical failure of both the primary and backup safety mechanisms because sometimes things break, especially things under 5,000 feet of water pressure and who knows how much oil pressure.

And I don't think we're looking at a dying sea. Big as the spill is, the ocean is much, much bigger. It can absorb a lot and survive.