[naturalborn]

It only took five words out of rush today before he called obama a tyrant for pitting BP as the enemy

[dennisw]

We is scrooooooooooooooooood!

[TSgt]

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said it was the federal government’s job to “keep the boot on the neck of BP,” which is running the cleanup effort.

Well at least they don't hide the fact that they are fascists.

[Sacajaweau]

Can you say Chicago....Still say there's a chance this was terrorism.....explosion + structure = Osama.

Osama likes to reek structural and financial disaster...This will not only do it...it hands half the deck to the oil drilling Muslim countries.

[shove_it]

That boot would be better placed up Salazar's a$$.

[wardaddy]

they pray it will be catastrophic

[E. Pluribus Unum]

A tactical nuke would solve the problem.

[Willie Green]

In addition to ruining the Gulf seafood industry,
BP setback "drill baby drill" for decades to come.

We need to build more nuclear power plants,
not only for electrically powered passenger rail systems,
but also for desalination plants that can do double-duty as seafood farms.

[RckyRaCoCo]

“never let a good crisis.....well, you know...

[GSWarrior]

If we are going to drill in ocean water, there must be a fail-safe plan in place to prevent this from happening-—some sort of valve that can be shut off at the source. I am surprised that an accident like this could happen.

[Williams]

This seems incredible to me, that anything which can be done in 90 days can’t be rushed and done sooner.

Do you mean to tell me they are trying each approach first and only doing the relief well AFTER all else fails???

[chemicalman]

In the meantime, gas prices jumped 15 cents since Friday.

[dblshot]

This is bad and getting worse. The flow of oil is estimated at 5K barrels a day through a failed Blow Out Preventer(BoP) and still connected but twisted and kinked riser. THe riser has floatation around it to keep it at neutral buoyancy when connected to the rigs draw works. Thus the riser is being moved back and forth by currents, how much I don't know. But the riser is not designed to be bent around like this and could over time break off the BoP. It is assumed the riser is at least acting as a choke to slow down the flow of oil so if it goes and the BoP valves are completely open it could conceivably allow 50K barrels of oil to flow out of the well. Best chance of controlling this is a coffer dam lowered over the BoP and a riser from that to direct oil to tankers on the surface. Also drilling relief wells to plug the leak below the BoP could work. Estimated time for a coffer dam, best case IMHO is 3-4 weeks from now. Relief well could be 2 - 3 months. In the meantime clean up is the name of the game. Massive cleanup will be required costing a lot of money which BP is on the hook for. All available boom and skimmers etc are probably being contracted now. The Federal Government has some clean up vessels under and Coast Guard buoy tenders have some oil spill clean up capacity but there is not enough to cover all the coast line and weather conditions are critical in oil spill cleanup. Think about the last time you spilled a little vegetable oil on a slick counter top, took a bunch of paper towels to clean up didn't it. Consider that oil being whipped around in your washing machine. A little hard to separate. So it is a bad thing but pointing fingers and political posturing aren't going to help one little bit. The administration should shut up and help and worry about blame latter. But noooo, It's not my fault says the government. It's the well owner fault, but who owns the well really. Why the guy who leases the land to BP is. golly gee, the US government, but they only take the money, none of the risk like a business does.

[reagan_fanatic]

Current timeline to shut down Gulf of Mexico oil spill: three months

Must be a union job.

[RushingWater]

The exact cause will be interesting to know so we can forward from here.

Big oil, as much as I appreciate their service to the economy, is notorious for laying off older experienced workers. I wonder if this is a factor.

[gundog]

How long before the enviros sue to shut down the rest ‘til this can be addressed?

[beckysueb]

Nearly the entire city of Nashville and surrounding counties is underwater today. Its nearly as bad as NOLA was and not a peep about it anywhere. These people are suffering but the oil spill gets all the news. I guess we aren’t complaining loud enough.

[HighlyOpinionated]

The Puppet Masters’ plan to decimate the USofA is coming along quite nicely for them.

We The People can Volunteer to help with the cleanup. Some of us too ‘old’ or whatever can bring cookies and water for the Cleanup Crews.

http://www.kansascity.com/2010/05/03/1919395/army-of-volunteers-needed-for.html

http://www.fox10tv.com/dpp/news/gulf_oil_spill/wala-oil-spill-volunteer-opps-lr

http://www.mnn.com/earth-matters/wilderness-resources/stories/army-of-volunteers-needed-for-gulf-oil-spill-cleanup

http://www.wtoc.com/global/story.asp?s=12413680

http://www.wlox.com/Global/story.asp?S=12407331

[Nobel_1]

First-hand account of accident on WBAP / Dallas
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?hpf=1&a_id=92765