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SantaFefan · Posted: Fri Jun 04, 2010 5:12 pm Post subject: Gulf Fiasco

This oil leak thing is starting to annoy me now which is ridiculous as I'm no expert but I said from early days that, surely with the massive constructions these firms are able to carry out, a huge metal "box" could have been positioned over the fracture... and I'm talking say 75 feet square! it could have multiple outlets on the top linked to powerful pumps - capable of pumping in more than the fracture is pumping out.
Heck, they could have even sunk a super tanker over it with a hole cut out of the bottom!

I don't understand how that could fail.. I know they tried a "top hat" enclosure but that looked to small to my eyes and it blocked easily..

I ranted to the wife listening to the Vine show a couple a day ago, saying why hasn't the US Navy got involved?? only to hear a telephone contribution asking the same thing including NASA! - only a short distance away!

The whole thing is bugging me.. it's a disgrace that it's gone on for so long and, from what I understand from the Vine show, it was an American rig, manned by Americans which caused the problem in the first place! and yet it seems to be becoming an "anti British" subject now.

I was also perturbed to learn from the Vine show that President Obama made a point of returning a bust of Sir Winston Churchill which had resided in the White House since WW2.. why did he do that I wonder??

I can see this turning a little nasty between the US/UK later...
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Helen May · Joined: 10 Dec 2006 Posts: 19382 Location: Cheshire

I feel much the same way SF. I think the Americans could have done far more to help the situation other than Obama just getting annoyed.

As you say it's a disgrace that it's gone on for so long. If Americans do boycott BP stations you can bet your bottom dollar that the media will be doing its level best to make sure it's hyped up good and proper.

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ColinB · Guest

However....... many of the institutional shareholders in BP are US companies (it's a multinational company, after all) so it's bound to be OK on the night. Obama is making noises about being annoyed simply because he can make political capital at a time when the electorate is starting to become sceptical about him.

RockitRon · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 7646

The company is now called BP, not British Petroleum. I remember at the time the change of name, and logo, was announced, the reason given was that it was a multinational, and no longer (even half) British-owned.
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Rachel · Guest

I was thinking a small nuclear depth-charge would do the trick, it might just work but on the other hand there’s a danger of covering the Gulf States in a sort of Radio Active Napalm which wouldn’t be a good outcome. I am surprised though that the Americans haven’t suggested nuking it.

I like your idea of sinking a super tanker, Santa.... if they put massive inflatable floatation sacks in the non oil-storage areas of the super tanker...then when it was full of oil they could inflate the bags: that combined with the bouyancy of the oil would allow the tanker to float gently back to the surface.... then simply tranfer the oil to a regular super-tanker and bingo.....

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Minx · Posted: Sat Jun 12, 2010 6:48 pm Post subject:

Obama is getting to be a big disappointment to me. Other than his health care reforms, he sounds to be enjoying the trappings of office punctuated by the odd sound-byte here and there.

He would do well to remember his country's involvement in Bhopal before he starts casting stones at other countries.
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ColinB · Guest

Obama is hitting out at BP because if he doesn't he'll get it in the neck from Congress and also the US media. He's passing the buck for putely PR point-scoring purposes. He's fully aware that BP is no longer called "British Petroleum" and that it's not a British company but a major multinational brand. He's therefore just playing to his audience.

I hope "Call me Dave" reminded him that BP leases the wellhead from an American company that installed and has been operating sub-standard facilities for a long time.

If Obama thinks this is the way to the heart of an increasingly agitated electorate then perhaps it's about time we started telling the USA to get stuffed.

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mark occomore · Joined: 07 Dec 2006 Posts: 9955 Location: UK

Obama's saying the BP oil leak is like 9/11. I don't know where he's going wth this. 9/11 was an act of terror. He will become unlikable if he continues with his comments.

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Toggy · Joined: 18 Aug 2008 Posts: 1239

He's becoming very unlikeable (I think) and the 9/11 comments are bizarre as well as unwise.
He may turn out to be a bigger flop than Bush if that's possible.

SantaFefan · Posted: Wed Aug 04, 2010 1:10 pm Post subject:

I heard on the lunchtime news that scientists are surprised to find maybe 3/4 of the "spilled" oil from the Gulf disaster has dissolved naturally, been cleared up or evaporated...
I seem to recall this was the case after the Exxon Valdez incident.. when all the hype and name calling had died down, it was nowhere near as bad as the doom mongers made out.
( this is not me making light of the situation by the way... )
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Barrack Obama recently defended his country's policy in Afghanistan by saying "we are now under different management." He won't allow BP the same excuse. He is proving yet again that he is a duplicitous hypocrite, the same man who said Hillary Clinton was an incompetent politician and then made her Secretary of State.
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ColinB · Guest

Isn't it funny how they're now all decided that the effects of the oil leak "aren't as bad as was originally feared"? And isn't it funny that Obama is now at peace with BP given that it has a new (American) CEO?

There's something insidious about this whole affair........

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