The Gushing Oil Leak Disaster

It's lasted too long and there is no end in sight..

It's surreal as a matter of fact.

The damage being caused as we speak is unlike any other and it's getting worse.

This is ****** up.
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Yes i agree..The destruction of the surrounding wildlife is amazingly sad. Us humans are very good at detroying things, yet very slow to repair.

Gee, they did not burn off the oil, because the environmental part of Obama's administration said that would pollute the atmosphere.
They did not let the the Governor of Louisiana build his berms because no one had done an environmental study.

Well the burning oil wells in Iraq caused no long term problems, but it seems that the Incompetent finger pointer and chief Obama thinks that the problems that oil will do to the shore and ocean life is less important than a little smoke in the air.

Actually, I got that wrong, Obama does not think, he merely reads tele-promters.

Even liberal taking heads are starting to say Obama has allowed this to become a cluster ****.

I blame the environmental movement.

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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe

Gee, they did not burn off the oil, because the environmental part of Obama's administration said that would pollute the atmosphere.
They did not let the the Governor of Louisiana build his berms because no one had done an environmental study.

Well the burning oil wells in Iraq caused no long term problems, but it seems that the Incompetent finger pointer and chief Obama thinks that the problems that oil will do to the shore and ocean life is less important than a little smoke in the air.

Actually, I got that wrong, Obama does not think, he merely reads tele-promters.

Even liberal taking heads are starting to say Obama has allowed this to become a cluster ****.

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Actually they could not burn it effectively. It is a matter of chemistry, not politics. Even if they did burn it, it would not be a little smoke in the air. When you burn 1.6 million gallons of crude oil (estimate 2nd may) it will do more than just make a little smoke.

Quite frankly the blame game can wait until the leak (hardly seems to do the disaster justice calling it a "leak") has been plugged. Then the powers that be can point the finger of blame at whomever the hell they please, but right now all effort must go into fixing this mess.

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Originally Posted by anthonyvop

I blame the environmental movement.

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Well you would wouldn't you.
I blame BP for not putting an emergency cut of valve. Or maybe an acustic switch which would have cost USD$500,000.00 would have worked, but was not put on to save money.

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Originally Posted by rah

Well you would wouldn't you.
I blame BP for not putting an emergency cut of valve. Or maybe an acustic switch which would have cost USD$500,000.00 would have worked, but was not put on to save money.

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You don't know that. Nobody knows what actually happened. Any idea is just a theory.

I am just astounded oil companies have not developed some kind of vacuum/pump system that would pump this into a separator and reclaim the oil until the leak is repaired.

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Originally Posted by Roamy

I am just astounded oil companies have not developed some kind of vacuum/pump system that would pump this into a separator and reclaim the oil until the leak is repaired.

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Does seem odd, doesn't it? The pipe's leaking and we can't stop the leak, so why not at least store the leaking oil somewhere in the meantime? But then what do I know?!