200 X 60 X 24 = 288,000 gallons per day (or 6,857 barrels per day) per unit times 31 units equals 212,571 barrels per day maximum removal (give or take ten thousand)

It’s not the same thing, but I read in the paper yesterday where some Taiwanese skimmer/tanker with Liberian registry left Virginia heading our way on the expectation they will be able to remove some 500,000 barrels per day (or was it gallons? still a mess of mess). They expect to be ready for action within three days.

Nobody’s killed electric cars. If you want to build an electric car and can make one as safe and reliable and cheaper than other cars, folks will line up to buy it from you. Nobody’s stopping you.

The main problem with them lies in energy storage. Your best batteries have about one percent the energy per pound as gasoline. They don’t have the range as gasoline or diesel cars. They are harder to refill and take longer. Fix those problem and electric cars will abound.

Or you could sit around and gripe about how nobody else has solved the problems therefore the entire world must be working for the oil companies.

Regarding their profits, those were driven by size, not by profit margin. If you do enough and make just one penny per item, you make high profits. By the way, you work for profits too. You do things which you think will benefit you and those you hold dear or else you generally don’t do them. Corporations are just organizations of people doing the same thing. (so are doctors, lawyers, bank robbers and drug pushers–they just have different ideas of how to benefit themselves and those they hold dear)

“They have no intention of capping that leak until they have another needle in the vein! after all it’s all about the BOTTOM LINE (OIL). for them. ”

Actually, the bottom line for any corporation is profit, they don’t care how they make a profit. A blowout is not profitable. Therefore, no corporation wants a blowout. If government insisted all done things be done safely, they would do so to make a profit.

BP has committed to abandoning the well when they get it killed and all money from petroleum collected is committed to wildlife recovery. They ain’t making no money off’n it.

“Meanwhile [they're] destroying our children’s future! Just look at our mass transit systems What little [there] are are antiquated and crumbling . Yet when offered are always wildly popular ”

Actually, they are not popular other than in high population density places and high population density places are not popular with people who care for their children. Further, mass transit attracts terrorists as being an opportunity to kill the most people the most easily.

“This whole thing breaks my HEART. I never thought I’d live to see a corp. destroy a whole sea .”

You still haven’t. It is still there, irritatingly damaged but not destroyed.

I applaud your efforts. They eerily mirror my family’s own way of life–in a good way.

We could probably sit down and drink a beer together without getting in a fistfight.(wink)

But sometimes folks need a kick in the pants to make them recognize their faults. I won’t apologize for pointing out that many of our locals could do a lot more to remove our mouths from the foreign oil teat.

Keep fighting the good fight, friend.

You need a bit of education, which my nephew, which is a student a RI university and is graduating in oceanographic engineering informed me. It will be dissipated, go search for it at RI, his professor, which is a leading expert says it all.

What if your next-door neighbor puts in a big stinking land fill and makes a bunch of money and your property value goes to nothing. What happened here is exactly the same thing!

Those folks in Louisiana still want to keep drilling because they just want to make money and the heck with everything else. I think Louisiana and the folks over there that got all of the jobs and money are just as responsible for what happened to us as BP is.