This top kill strategy...

because BP was trying to stall to save money, destroy our environment, put an end to oil/gas prodcution in the US. They are able to get away with it because the entire federal governenment is in their back pocket.

My question is why they didn't have all these things lined up from the get-go instead of waiting until each failed in succession.

quote:

---

My question is why they didn't have all these things lined up from the get-go instead of waiting until each failed in succession.

---

good question. i guess we can ask this also "DO WE, AT PRESENT TIME, HAVE A REMEDY FOR WHEN THE SUN (STAR) FINALLY BURNS OUT?"

if we don't, we better hurry up. it's in stage 4 of 5 right now.

My guess is it's similar to states like Tennessee struggling with snow storms. Tennessee might get a serious snow every couple of years. So it's not capable of dealing effectively with it because they can't afford to maintain a fleet of vehicles to deal with something that rarely happens.

quote:

---

My question is why they didn't have all these things lined up from the get-go instead of waiting until each failed in succession.

---

It is not a one at a time process, most of the attempts to stop the leak are being engineered in parallel and implimented as soon s they are ready. The contol POD for the BOP was removed shortly after the spill started , and has been reengineered for the top kill and was just reinstalled a couple of days ago. The top kill required cutting and modifying high pressure piping on the BOP on the ocean floor, that has taken days. It is not as simple as going down and turning a valve, which they tried around day two.