another prescient statement from Rennick-the-Nostradamus, notice the date (05-03-10 06:42 PM)! : http://www.elitetrader.com/vb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2826117&highlight=gulf#post2826117
You are absolutely goddam right. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oil_spills The only thing I can take heart in is that with the shear quantity of oil we have dug up and poured into our environment over the last 100 years we haven't killed ourselves and the rest of the planet off yet. So, this too will pass.
Anybody know what the water was really for? You can't put out an oil fire with water - that's why they use foam on jetfuel fire. Water just spreads it around, it doesn't put it out.
History never repeats? 1979 oil leak in Gulf of Mexico they used everything BP has tried, the only thing that stopped the leak was by drilling new wells to intercept the existing well. 30 years later they tried domes, junk shot (top kill) !!! <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/GHmhxpQEGPo&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/GHmhxpQEGPo&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>
I think they should shoot a little poo in there. That always plugs up the pipes around here. Maybe Pelosi can put together a big pile of BS for them to use.
That's really interesting, and way better than my original suggestion. I wonder if this is feasible or not though? It is really easy to draw pictures of water, oil, steel containers, pipes, etc, another to actually pull it off in the real world, especially a mile down where only very specialized robots can be used. Desperation point is very close.