On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 8:23 AM, skimmer <skimmer_at_enter.net> wrote: > > How long does the Government go allowing BP to keep dancing. BP does not > act > as if their collective lives absolutely depend on their successfully > shutting the well before the gulf becomes a total oil storage reservoir. > So.... what would you like the "Government" to do? If you think that the Government - or any government - knows how to fix this any better than BP or ExxonMobil, or Chevron or Shell then you have a lot more faith in government than I have. A well-known talking head from New Orleans was featured on ABC crying about how Obama needed to get down there and do something... and get some tankers out there to pick up the oil. Maybe he hadn't see the flotilla of tankers, workboats, tugs, skimmers, etc. out there already. I'm thinking that adding a President from Chicago to the mix might not be the perfect recipe to get the job done. The residents of the Gulf, having profited mightily from Big Oil for the past 40 years, have suddenly discovered that the presence of 3500 drilling and production rigs operating within 100 miles of their coastline might not be as perfect a situation as they had thought. There is one for-sure method to stop the well. Drill an intersecting well and use that to control the one that's out of control. This is a known method and will do the job. Too bad it's going to take until August. Everything else they're doing - and I'm pretty sure the best engineering minds in the USA are working on this - is a stopgap. Right now we're pretty much at the mercy of the people who got us into this; namely, British Petroleum (or "BP" as they'd prefer to be known now). Lest you forget, only six months ago a significant percentage of this Nation's population was calling for more offshore oil drilling with nary a thought to the risks involved. In fact, so many were demanding it that the Obama administration bent to the pressure and declared that their opposition to future offshore drilling was tempered. When over half of a country's voting population seem to want something it's very difficult for a government that's chosen by those voters to ignore it. Craig Jungers Moses Lake, WA www.nwkayaking.net *************************************************************************** PaddleWise Paddling Mailing List - Any opinions or suggestions expressed here are solely those of the writer(s). You must assume the entire responsibility for reliance upon them. All postings copyright the author. Submissions: PaddleWise_at_PaddleWise.net Subscriptions: PaddleWise-request_at_PaddleWise.net Website: http://www.paddlewise.net/ ***************************************************************************Received on Tue Jun 01 2010 - 04:38:00 PDT
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