Don’t you wish you COULD? Just think, say 19,000 barrels of crude per day at the rate of $75 per barrel, over $1.4 million dollars per day going into nuisance rather than wealth.

I am beginning to think we need to update our oil spill containment procedures and equipment.

just beginning, mind you

2) Skimming – Actually, some was skimmed or the slick would be worse. It would have made sense to have enough to skim all, but nobody seemed to think that made sense.

3) Burning – Actually, some was burned or the slick would be worse. Burn too close to the containment booms, though, and you burn them up. Good planning!

4) Big Containment Dome – Failed, true. They needed more ballast and bigger flow lines and all flow into that one dome not scattered over 5000′

5) Small Top Hat Dome – Failed, less of the original failure, I never saw the wisdom of that approach.

6) Small Suction Pipe –Actually, some was sucked or the slick would be worse, just not enough (enough being defined as ALL)

7) Top Kill – Failed, as it should have, it was a stupid idea born of desperation

Junk Shot – Failed, also a stupid idea. They probably did it to satisfy the folks who demand you DO SOMETHING RIGHT NOW even if you know it won’t work. The relief well WILL work if they can drill back into the original hole deep enough, but it takes time and people want to actually see you doing something even if it is stupid.

9) Cut and Cap – Saw is stuck – Probable Failure I’m still thinking they should have used shaped charges to do the cutting, but don’t know enough to be sure.

10) ??? President Obama’s got the smartest minds and movie makers on Earth working on other ideas. (proof is that they didn’t invite me)

Remember, if all fails every reservoir has a finite supply so it will stop even if the government decides to halt drilling before they get there. We might be three feet deep in asphalt by then, but it will eventually run out.

David looking at bright side of life

The reporters may be off, though, since many don’t know what is being discussed, the chemistry of it, the mechanics of it, the conditions involved.

Some bad decisions were obviously made. One of them was to reduce mudweight without a known working set of blowout preventers and careful monitoring of returns. And yes, a few of the people involved in carrying out those instructions were killed in the event.

If somebody tells you to shoot yourself in the head and you do it, surely you share SOME of the blame for what happens.

Look at it this way: Paved access to the beach! all the way out to the water and beyond.

David considering the wisdom of
NO, I WON’T in some cases

I don’t need God’s forgiveness OR yours. And for your information I AM educated about the problem and it WAS a “working guy” who circumvented protocol prior to that explosion. If anyone is ignorant and stupid, it’s you.

Unfortunately the person or persons who are probably responsible for this catastrophe are dead. I’ve already read an account that indicates negligence on the part of one or more of the deceased workers.