Spintested: 05/30/10

Carol Browner: Administration 'Prepared For The Worst,' Oil May Leak Until August

Sunday, May 30, 2010

You're either very young or ig.nor.ant.

This is precisely what the government does, or did do before conservatives got their hands on the steering wheel about 40 years ago. This is not a job for a foreign oil corporation, but for the US government, the US military (the Navy & Army Corps of Engineers).

Colin Powell agrees: Oil Spill Is 'Beyond The Capacity' Of BP To Solve, Military Might Have Role

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/30/colin-powell-oil-spill-is_n_594779.html
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Carol Browner: Administration 'Prepared For The Worst,' Oil May Leak Until August

The hoped-for solution several months away is not a sure thing. Relief wells aren't "proven technology", they're no guarantee.

All the talk about how far drilling technology has come is just hype -- Drilling technology isn't all that advanced. The technology to fix blow-outs is identical to what it was 30 years ago -- There have been no advances.

The only reason that the oil industry is drilling deep sea wells now is because it has to, to get to the oil (all of the easy places have been drilled). So expect many more disasters with no solutions.

The answer is not offshore drilling, or any oil industry. Between global warming and the Chinese and Indian middle class building ten-lane highways and running shifts around the clock manufacturing cars for their citizens, we can't continue on an oil economy.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Taliban Training In Iran: McChrystal Says 'Clear Evidence' Of Inappropriate Iranian Activity

Taliban Training In Iran: McChrystal Says 'Clear Evidence' Of Inappropriate Iranian Activity

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The excuse for bombing Iran.

Who didn't see this coming?
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Gulf Oil Spill: Ken Salazar Faces Calls For His Resignation

BP is running this operation, not Obama and not the US government.

If US marine geologists and engineers, the US military, Army Corps of Engineers were working on this, Obama would have said it straight out given all of the criticism for the way he's handling this. He's got the USCG running interference for BP, and that's the extent of US government involvement. Obama has rejected international offers of help. Obama "trusts BP" -- Straight from his mouth.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Gulf Oil Spill: Ken Salazar Faces Calls For His Resignation

Um no, I didn't watch the video.

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Forming an opinion based on ig.norance is nothing to boast about, but it sure is an American trait.

Relief wells are NOT the only solution, they don't always work and they don't deal with the disaster of tens of thousands of barrels of oil and gas gushing into the Gulf and beyond.

And Eliot Spitzer isn't opining in the clip about capping deepsea oil wells. But he is an expert on the law and on what a chief executive ought to be doing in a catastrophe like this.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Elizabeth Birnbaum, Ken Salazar, Lisa Jackson, Carol Browner, (Rahm Emanuel, et al) were and are all following Obama's directives. This isn't that Obama was taken for a ride by BP or Bush-Cheney -- This is Obama hoping you think he was duped instead of the fact that Bush's policies are Obama's policies. The proof is that Obama has NOT shut down BP's other operations, like Atlantis, which is in worse shape than Deepwater Horizon. Obama is allowing offshore oil drilling by BP and other oil companies with bad records to continue in the Gulf and other US waters.

BP's Atlantis platform (off the coast of Louisiana in "Hurricane Alley" at a water depth of more than 7,000 feet) poses a serious, immediate and potentially irreparable threat to the Gulf of Mexico's marine environment, oil workers and communities.

Atlantis operates with incomplete and inaccurate engineering documents, which one official warned could "lead to catastrophic operator error," much worse than BP's Deepwater Horizon rig, many times larger than the spill from the Horizon explosion:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/wenonah-hauter/why-obama-must-shut-down_b_589372.html

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_15095439?source=rss

Obama's MMS kept giving out drilling permits after Obama announced a suspension on permits, and for weeks there was no clarification or end put to that. The suspension, by the way, is only on NEW drilling. Not on maintenance drilling, which occurs all the time. It's just more of the same Obama weasel lawyer-speak.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

MMS is an executive branch agency, directed and controlled by the president. Whether it happened under Bush's watch (and it did) no longer matters because Obama chose to block all investigations and prosecutions into that administration's activities. By doing that, Obama (for all intents and purposes) was certifying that what went on wouldn't be going on, and that it was all now his responsibility. Obama would make it all better. Obama and Democrats were put into power because they promised to clean up the mess. This particular mess falls right at Obama's feet.

It's been 16 months and what we're finding out is that Obama has continued Bush's policies throughout all of the government. It's not that he hasn't gotten to it yet -- He's rubber-stamped and is continuing what Bush and Cheney did.

All offshore drilling is dangerous, especially deepsea drilling, and all of these rigs have histories of problems. It's not like he walked into the job not knowing that Bush and Cheney had planted Liberty University graduates in executive branch agencies. We all knew about it.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Gulf Oil Spill: Ken Salazar Faces Calls For His Resignation

The hoped-for solution several months away is not a sure thing. Relief wells aren't "proven technology", they're no guarantee. And by the time it's ready, it may be too late:

"It may not be possible to fix this. What that means is that if it isn't fixed, that well will continue to gush until there's no more oil in it or the pressure gradients have matched up. It will take 9000 days (30 years) for this well to run dry, and waiting until August for the relief well to be drilled is too late to save the Gulf, the east coast of US and the N. Atlantic Ocean."

-Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading oil experts to Dylan Ratigan this week.

Joining Ratigan and Simmons, Captain Dave Ballay and Eliot Spitzer, who talks about what Obama must do.

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYc0CAtrP-A

Simmons & Spitzer are on Part 2:

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2LIimGMQM

If this is so, this is not a job for a foreign oil corporation, but for the US government, the US military (the Navy & Army Corps of Engineers).

Colin Powell agrees: Oil Spill Is 'Beyond The Capacity' Of BP To Solve, Military Might Have Role

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/30/colin-powell-oil-spill-is_n_594779.html
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Gulf Oil Spill: Ken Salazar Faces Calls For His Resignation

The hoped-for solution several months away is not a sure thing. Relief wells aren't "proven technology", they're no guarantee. And by the time it's ready, it may be too late:

"It may not be possible to fix this. What that means is that if it isn't fixed, that well will continue to gush until there's no more oil in it or the pressure gradients have matched up. It will take 9000 days (30 years) for this well to run dry, and waiting until August for the relief well to be drilled is too late to save the Gulf, the east coast of US and the N. Atlantic Ocean."

-Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading oil experts to Dylan Ratigan this week.

Joining Ratigan and Simmons, Captain Dave Ballay and Eliot Spitzer, who talks about what Obama must do.

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYc0CAtrP-A

Simmons & Spitzer are on Part 2:

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2LIimGMQM

If this is so, this is not a job for a foreign oil corporation, but for the US government, the US military (the Navy & Army Corps of Engineers).

Colin Powell agrees: Oil Spill Is 'Beyond The Capacity' Of BP To Solve, Military Might Have Role

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/05/30/colin-powell-oil-spill-is_n_594779.html
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Gulf Oil Spill: Ken Salazar Faces Calls For His Resignation

The technology to drill oil isn't revolutionary, 21st century, and the technology to fix blow-outs is identical to what it was 30 years ago -- There have been no advances.

The only reason that the oil industry is drilling deep sea wells now is because it has to, to get to the oil (all of the easy places have been drilled).

This isn't rocket science, and the US government has marine geologists and engineers that are better equipped than the oil industry.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Carol Browner: Administration 'Prepared For The Worst,' Oil May Leak Until August

the engineers over at oildrum.com are saying that Matt Simmons is just trying to grab national attention.

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Anonymous posters who claim to be COMPUTER software engineers are who you're citing.

I rely on my own expertise or experts who I know who have explained the science to my satisfaction, in that I can research it to form my own opinion. Matthew Simmons isn't the only expert relating this. He is, however, in a video clip that was immediately accessible.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Gulf Oil Spill: Media Access 'Slowly Being Strangled Off'

A CBS news story said one of its reporting teams was threatened with arrest by the Coast Guard and turned back from an oiled beach at the mouth of the Mississippi River. The story said the reporters were told the denial was under "BP's rules."

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And CBS reporters didn't let themselves get arrested because?

That's how the media is going to have to end the government's illegal denial of the public's right to know.
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BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

I am an old liberal Democrat.

Democrats took over control of Congress in 2006. Digging began at the Deepwater Horizon rig in April, 2009.

The DLC-controlled Democratic Party is as complicit in this as Republicans.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

And how much oil would that be? Via the New York Times:

BP’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, has estimated that the reservoir tapped by the out-of-control well holds at least 50 million barrels of oil.

That would be about 2 billion gallons of oil. If all of this floods out, it would be the biggest oil spill in history by a huge margin and 20 times bigger than the biggest previous spill in the Gulf of Mexico. From the National Geographic piece: "The 1979 Ixtoc oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico, took nine months to cap. During that time the well spewed 140 million gallons (530 million liters) of oil — and the Ixtoc well was only about 160 feet (49 meters) deep, noted retired energy investment banker Simmons."

Even if the well is capped, this is going to be a huge spill. The spill rate, originally estimated at 50,000 gallons a day and then 210,000 gallons a day, might actually be as much as a million gallons a day — or maybe even more. But it's hard to tell because BP is using chemical dispersants to send most of the oil to the bottom of the sea. This keeps it off the shore, but might end up doing more damage in the long run. Nobody seems to know for sure.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/05/biggest-oil-spill-history
About Gulf Oil Spill
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

Is it going to be possible to ever cap the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout? Maybe not, says National Geographic:

Such recovery operations have never been done before in the extreme deep-sea environment around the wellhead, noted Matthew Simmons, retired chair of the energy-industry investment banking firm Simmons & Company International....Slant drilling — a technique used to relieve pressure near the leak — is difficult at these depths, because the relief well has to tap into the original pipe, a tiny target at about 7 inches (18 centimeters) wide, Simmons noted.

"We don't have any idea how to stop this," Simmons said of the Gulf leak....If the oil can't be stopped, the underground reservoir may continue bleeding until it's dry, Simmons suggested.

KEEP READING
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

And shutting down all offshore oil rigs.

Green, sustainable energy is the solution. Wind, solar, hydro and conservation are the solution and can handle all of our energy needs. Obama's not committed to it. Nuclear and coal is not green, not clean. Obama likes to boast that he's done more than any other president. $1 would have been more than the others. What Obama has designated isn't anywhere near enough to move us into a green energy future. He's a joke.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

"It may not be possible to fix this. What that means is that if it isn't fixed, that well will continue to gush until there's no more oil in it or the pressure gradients have matched up. It will take 9000 days (30 years) for this well to run dry, and waiting until August for the relief well to be drilled is too late to save the Gulf, the east coast of US and the N. Atlantic Ocean."

-Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading oil experts to Dylan Ratigan this week.

Joining Ratigan and Simmons, Captain Dave Ballay and Eliot Spitzer, who talks about what Obama must do.

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYc0CAtrP-A

Simmons & Spitzer are on Part 2:

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2LIimGMQM

If this is so, this is not a job for a foreign oil corporation, but for the US government, the US military (the Navy and Army Corps of Engineers). Listen to part 2.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

For the clean-up?

Super tankers should have been (& still should be) moved into the Gulf to siphon up the oil. The only reason dispersants are used is to hide the oil, sink it beneath the surface from view of the media and the People.

All offers of help, both foreign and domestic, should have been accepted on day one, instead of turned down. Massive quantities of boom should've been sent to the region on day one, instead of waiting to see what might be needed. There still isn't enough.

Building berms around the barrier islands should have been authorized and expedited -- Not announced after being forced by this press conference to act.

All of the efforts to shut down the gusher should have been put into place and tried sequentially, immediately, after the initial blow-out. They shouldn't have been spending days building a top-hat (not an original idea, but one that had failed in a previous blow-out -- It was called "a sombrero"), seeing if it would work before starting on the next idea. Pumping mud/cement should have been initiated as soon as the blowout happened.

Obama needs to shut down all offshore oil rigs - Especially BP's Atlantic operation. That is NOT being done!

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requires oil companies to be FINANCIALLY responsible for the damage & repairs, but does NOT transfer require/transfer the responsibility for fixing the problem and clean-up to oil companies.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

By the way, fishing has only been shut down in about 4% of the water along the areas affected in the Gulf.

I've seen reporters out in boats, complaining of the stench and the goo in and on the water point out shrimpers and other fishermen "out for a last run". They're catching seafood, and selling, fish and other seafood that has been through that muck.

80% of US seafood comes from overseas, and it's not much, if at all, better - http://www.brasschecktv.com/page/835.html

Our "American way of life" is k!lling us.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

I'm an old liberal Democrat.

Obama and Democrats were put into power to reverse the last 30 years of Republican privatization and deregulation. Obama and the DLC-controlled Democrats in Congress have done NOTHING in that regard. Obama has continued just about all of Bush's policies.

The only people that Obama is fooling are his most ardent admirers, who think he's either a populist, a liberal, "playing 3 dimensional chess", has some grand scheme to trick Republicans, OR, those who think he's a centrist and are happy with his failure to accomplish anything because they, for all intents and purposes, conservatives themselves, libertarians, for less government.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Obama going on vacation has nothing to do with the oil spill. BP made this spill and should clean it up.

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The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 makes oil companies FINANCIALLY responsible, but in no way requires them to be in charge or even involved in dealing with accidents or clean-up.

Subtitle B alone parks this FUBAR directly at the Oval Office:

Subtitle B: Removal - Amends the Federal Water Pollution Control Act (FWPCA) to require the President to ensure effective and immediate removal of a discharge, and mitigation or prevention of a substantial threat of discharge, of oil or hazardous substances into the Exclusive Economic Zone or onto adjoining shorelines or in any way threatening natural resources under exclusive Federal management authorization. Requires the President to direct all Federal, State, and private actions in the event of an actual or potential discharge which is a substantial threat to the public health or welfare. Exempts from liability, with certain exceptions, any person acting pursuant to the National Contingency Plan or as otherwise directed by the President. Requires the Plan to establish procedures for: (1) removing a worst-case discharge or threat; and (2) coordinating the activities of Coast Guard strike teams and specified others. Requires revision and republication of the Plan by a certain date.

KEEP READING
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Or maybe BP should have had the equipment in place and tested these fixes at 5000 feet below sea level --- BEFORE this happened?

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Actually, it's the US government's job to make sure that the nation and its people are protected.

A president does not leave duty to go on vacation when the very existence of an entire region of his country (not to mention the effect on other nations) is in an ongoing crisis. To say it's about appearances, public relations, doesn't drive home how dire this situation is, but much of what a president does happens through people's perceptions.

Being disengaged didn't work for Bush ("cell phone", "video conferencing") and it certainly doesn't work for Obama. It took 35 days of him (& people like you, his most ardent supporters echoing), "Not my responsibility -- It's BP's", before his handlers realized that wasn't playing well. So they switched the script, had him say, "I'm responsible, the buck stops here ... Now watch me go on vacation".

Last week, as proof of his assertion that the government has been in charge since day one, Obama told of his insisting that BP drill not one but two relief wells.

Today we learned that BP has stopped drilling that second relief well.

As Donna Brazille, Democratic Party insider & fierce supporter of Obama said to Howard Fineman about the AWOL Obama to her state's crisis with this blow-out, "What happened to the fierce urgency of now?"
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Actually, it's the US government's job to make sure that the nation and its people are protected.

A president does not leave duty to go on vacation when the very existence of an entire region of his country (not to mention the effect on other nations) is in an ongoing crisis. To say it's about appearances, public relations, doesn't drive home how dire this situation is, but much of what a president does happens through people's perceptions.

Being disengaged didn't work for Bush ("cell phone", "video conferencing") and it certainly doesn't work for Obama. It took 35 days of him (and people like you, his most ardent supporters echoing), "Not my responsibility -- It's BP's", before his handlers realized that wasn't playing well. So they switched the script, had him say, "I'm responsible, the buck stops here ... Now watch me go on vacation".

As Donna Brazille, Democratic Party insider and fierce supporter of Obama said to Howard Fineman about the AWOL Obama to her state's crisis with this blow-out, "What happened to the fierce urgency of now?"
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

It seems, however, that Obama's efforts go into preventing reporters, scientists and outside observers from documenting the FUBAR -- How BUSH of Obama:

Photographers say BP and government officials are preventing them from documenting the impact of the Deepwater Horizon disaster.

As BP makes its latest attempt to plug its gushing oil well, news photographers are complaining that their efforts to document the slow-motion disaster in the Gulf of Mexico are being thwarted by local and federal officials—working with BP—who are blocking access to the sites where the effects of the spill are most visible. More than a month into the disaster, a host of anecdotal evidence is emerging from reporters, photographers, and TV crews in which BP and Coast Guard officials explicitly target members of the media, restricting and denying them access to oil-covered beaches, staging areas for clean-up efforts, and even flyovers.

http://www.newsweek.com/2010/05/26/the-missing-oil-spill-photos.html
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Except that the work isn't getting done.

http://ac360.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/28/on-the-scene-under-pressure/

Obama's government continues to play hot potato with BP, and word games with the American people over what "responsibility" actually looks like, getting nothing accomplished while sensitive habitat is destroyed, and this crisis gets worse.

According to local officials at the parishes, USCG leaves a representative behind in a parish, they don't stick around, they keep getting changed, they have no authority and defer to BP, and nothing gets done.

One example of this FUBAR:

If BP has put booms out (rare and inadequate numbers), nobody returns to pick them up when they're soaked to replace them with fresh boom so the oil overwhelms the boom barricades and soaks the marshes.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Obama's biggest boast of his being engaged, in charge, was the he, himself, order BP to drill a second relief well.

BP has stopped the drilling of that second relief well. Not on anyone's orders but their own.

I guess you're unaware of what took place during Obama's 3 hour visit on Friday. It was a photo op, carefully staged, on a beach where BP had brought in 300-400 workers in haz-mat suits right before Obama's arrival, as "atmosphere", and as soon as Obama left, the workers did, too.

Thad Allen needs to be replaced. And making 2 or 3 agencies out of MMS does nothing to stop the corruption, the cozy relationship that Big Oil has with MMS's employees.

I could list many others, like Carol Browner, Ken Salazar, etc., but ultimately the problem is Obama himself. He's NOT the one we were waiting for. He's far too cozy with the Corporatocracy himself, doesn't have the will or the desire to fight to save the nation from their continuing assaults.
About Gulf Oil Spill
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Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

Super tankers should have been (& still should be) moved into the Gulf to siphon up the oil. The only reason dispersants are used is to hide the oil, sink it beneath the surface from view of the media and the People.

All offers of help, both foreign and domestic, should have been accepted on day one, instead of turned down. Massive quantities of boom should have been sent to the region on day one, instead of waiting to see what might be needed. There still isn't enough.

Building berms around the barrier islands should have been authorized and expedited -- Not announced after being forced by this press conference to act.

All of the efforts to shut down the gusher should have been put into place and tried sequentially, immediately, after the initial blow-out. They shouldn't have been spending days building a top-hat (not an original idea, but one that had failed in a previous blow-out -- It was called "a sombrero"), seeing if it would work before starting on the next idea. Pumping mud/cement should have been initiated as soon as the blowout happened.

Obama needs to shut down all offshore oil rigs - Especially BP's Atlantic operation. That is NOT being done!

The Oil Pollution Act of 1990 requires oil companies to be FINANCIALLY responsible for the damage & repairs, but does NOT transfer require/transfer the responsibility for fixing the problem and clean-up to oil companies.
About Gulf Oil Spill
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

Obama: Ongoing Oil Spill 'Enraging,' 'Heartbreaking'

"It may not be possible to fix this. What that means is that if it isn't fixed, that well will continue to gush until there's no more oil in it or the pressure gradients have matched up. It will take 9000 days (30 years) for this well to run dry, and waiting until August for the relief well to be drilled is too late to save the Gulf, the east coast of US and the N. Atlantic Ocean."

-Matthew Simmons, one of the world's leading oil experts to Dylan Ratigan this week.

Joining Ratigan and Simmons, Captain Dave Ballay and Eliot Spitzer, who talks about what Obama must do.

Part 1 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYc0CAtrP-A

Simmons & Spitzer are on Part 2:

Part 2 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE2LIimGMQM

If this is so, this is not a job for a foreign oil corporation, but for the US government, the US military (the Navy and Army Corps of Engineers).
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

And how much oil would that be? Via the New York Times:

BP’s chief executive, Tony Hayward, has estimated that the reservoir tapped by the out-of-control well holds at least 50 million barrels of oil.

That would be about 2 billion gallons of oil. If all of this floods out, it would be the biggest oil spill in history by a huge margin and 20 times bigger than the biggest previous spill in the Gulf of Mexico. From the National Geographic piece: "The 1979 Ixtoc oil spill, also in the Gulf of Mexico, took nine months to cap. During that time the well spewed 140 million gallons (530 million liters) of oil — and the Ixtoc well was only about 160 feet (49 meters) deep, noted retired energy investment banker Simmons."

Even if the well is capped, this is going to be a huge spill. The spill rate, originally estimated at 50,000 gallons a day and then 210,000 gallons a day, might actually be as much as a million gallons a day — or maybe even more. But it's hard to tell because BP is using chemical dispersants to send most of the oil to the bottom of the sea. This keeps it off the shore, but might end up doing more damage in the long run. Nobody seems to know for sure.

http://motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2010/05/biggest-oil-spill-history
About Gulf Oil Spill
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

Is it going to be possible to ever cap the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout? Maybe not, says National Geographic:

Such recovery operations have never been done before in the extreme deep-sea environment around the wellhead, noted Matthew Simmons, retired chair of the energy-industry investment banking firm Simmons & Company International....Slant drilling — a technique used to relieve pressure near the leak — is difficult at these depths, because the relief well has to tap into the original pipe, a tiny target at about 7 inches (18 centimeters) wide, Simmons noted.

"We don't have any idea how to stop this," Simmons said of the Gulf leak....If the oil can't be stopped, the underground reservoir may continue bleeding until it's dry, Simmons suggested.

KEEP READING
About Gulf Oil Spill
Read the Article at HuffingtonPost

BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

Is it going to be possible to ever cap the Deepwater Horizon oil blowout? Maybe not, says National Geographic:

KEEP READING
About Gulf Oil Spill
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BP Says So Far, Gulf Well Plug Isn't Working

No, I don't think we're basically in agreement. Your "anger" seems like lip-service, like Obama's: Complacency, "What can we do? It's the price we pay for our need for oil, and we're just going to have to be patient -- But we're still going to drill offshore." And a false belief that relief drilling, months away, is guaranteed to work. It isn't. And in case you didn't know, that second relief well that Obama "ordered"? BP has stopped drilling it.

I've been hearing all morning from Obama's surrogates that "we should wait, until after a commission report, etc. Damage control, attempts to slow down the environmental movement, avalanche, to move the nation off of oil and to green, sustainable energy.

And all across the news this morning, from oil corporation surrogates and their media spinners, "This blow-out was a fluke". "Thirty years of no accidents", "no spills" (nonsense).

And from David Gregory, Candy Crowley, Jake Tapper? "It's these deepsea wells, and perhaps we should just drill in shallower water" (Ixtoc was in shallow water, and as we're seeing, the technology for repairing these blowouts has not changed, not improved).
About Gulf Oil Spill
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