re: Gulf Oil Slick & Gulf Coast Governors, where are they???

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They shouldnt do it if they cant prevent this kind of thing from happening and if it does be able to stop it.

What they are doing now is the same as saying your sorry after you cheat on your spouse. Its doesnt cut the mustard.

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What? A common sense post??

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So, you are claiming they intentionally did this. Horrible analogy.

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Why? Is every instance of cheating intentional?

These companies dont care about their own workers much less anyone else.

We are stewards of God's earth, ruling over that which is not ours.

Im sure God is pleased with the way they rape the land and sea in the name of the almighty dollar..

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They are taking OUR oil and selling it back to us

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Yeah, like those damn farmers and shrimpers. That's MY shrimp etouffee!

You fricking moron.

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These companies dont care about their own workers much less anyone else.




bullshite

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You REALLY think they care??

What a fool...

I agree with you Tex and think this ultimately will change life as we know it along the coast.....maybe they will get it stopped sooner than later.

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Although your previous posts really give me serious doubts as to your level of comprehension you need to google IXTOC 1 and the recent blowout off the coast of Australia. IXTOC was many times as much oil as the current spill, and the Gulf of Mexico recovered. Right now these companies and agencies are devoting all the resources they have to contain this thing as best they can. Hopefully impacts will be far less than what people are assuming now. This is a risky game drilling deepwater oil and gas wells. Unfortunately accidents happen and this one appears to have been a failure of multiple systems. Everyone will learn from this.

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TigerDog, your post reads like a Press Release from an Oil Company. There are a few Oil Company middle managers who are extremely upset with what is happening right now. Why? Because they are passionate about the solutions they have proposed to prevent this problem from happening. What has stopped their progress on the solutions needed is money. It's all about dollars, how often a spill of this magnitude happens all figured in on bottom line cost. That's where the real problem lies. To read the quotes from so many managers working the problem saying "We will try this and see if it works" speaks volumes of how unprepared the Oil Industry is for major spills like this. To think we don't have the technology and brains to fix a problem like this is living in denial.

Oh, and my apologies if this only ends up being the 2nd worst Oil Spill in the world. I guess I may have overstated.

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To read the quotes from so many managers working the problem saying "We will try this and see if it works" speaks volumes of how unprepared the Oil Industry is for major spills like this

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Your delusion has no end. This situation, like many disasters is unique and ever changing. Solutions to problems have to be developed uniquely in response to those problems as they present themselves. Since the BOP has not been able to be closed BP is fabricating a dome like structure to be lowered off of the Transocean Discoverer Enterprise to funnel and collect oil. That is an extremely demanding task on such short order. Quotes from the coast guard indicate that something like 2/3 of the dispersant available in the WORLD is on stock with BP along the gulf coast. They are getting as many resources as are available to contain this spill. I'm not downplaying the seriousness of the event, as it is a tragedy for all involved, but a little rational perspective would be nice in some of these threads. There are too many people who spew false ideas to support there vitriol for "the evil oil companies".

quote]As Sarah Palin has said, "It's okay if some wildlife has to take one for the home team".[/quote]

Now you are quoting that moron Sarah Palin? Nobody thinks the spill is a good thing obviously. It would be nice if there were some rational responses in these threads beyond all the baseless slams against BP and Transocean. In twenty years of deepwater exploration there hasn't been an event like this. That doesn't diminish the seriousness of this blowout and spill, but give this a little perspective. I question why the coast guard did not allow the oil to be burned at the area near the spill starting from day one, but there is probably a lot of governmental red tape that prevented that.

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I question why the coast guard did not allow the oil to be burned at the area near the spill starting from day one, but there is probably a lot of governmental red tape that prevented that

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Same question and same guess on the answer...why put out the fire in the first place?