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This Oil spill in the Gulf sounds like it could be an economic catstrophe

  • QuakerOats
    Things the president is doing during the 'crisis':

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/the-presidential-planner-17.html

    Meanwhile the government bureaucracy is holding up permits that Jindal is begging for .............................. change we can believe in ..........
  • ptown_trojans_1
    QuakerOats wrote: Things the president is doing during the 'crisis':

    http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/the-presidential-planner-17.html

    Meanwhile the government bureaucracy is holding up permits that Jindal is begging for .............................. change we can believe in ..........
    What do you want him to do? Cancel everything and be literally on top of the pump closing the hole?

    The President is fine keeping his schedule. Let the people who really do the policy work drive the next steps, not the President. He is pretty much doing all he can without being annoying.

    On Jindal, I agree, a big Charlie Foxtrot about the permits and such.
  • majorspark
    Foxnews is reporting "top kill" as having some success. Reports are unconfirmed and preliminary.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/26/bp-says-effort-plug-spill-going-planned/
  • majorspark
    ptown_trojans_1 wrote: On Jindal, I agree, a big Charlie Foxtrot about the permits and such.
    This would be a good time to tell the feds to go pound sand and do what needs to be done. Jindal should just exercise his power as governor and take action.
  • j_crazy
    i hope to God it doesn't fail.
  • CenterBHSFan
    j_crazy wrote: i hope to God it doesn't fail.
    Me too, J Crazy! :(
  • CenterBHSFan
    majorspark wrote:
    ptown_trojans_1 wrote: On Jindal, I agree, a big Charlie Foxtrot about the permits and such.
    This would be a good time to tell the feds to go pound sand and do what needs to be done. Jindal should just exercise his power as governor and take action.

    I agree, Major.

    Act now and deal with whatever (if any) federal/political wrath later.
  • ptown_trojans_1
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052701957.html?hpid=topnews
    Oil spill is now nation's worst.
    11 million gallons spilled in the Exxon Valdez disaster
    17-39 million in this one.

    Damn......
  • CenterBHSFan
    Well, the resignations have started!

    http://www.wtov9.com/politics/23695578/detail.html?treets=steu&tml=steu_natlbreak&ts=T&tmi=steu_natlbreak_1_09450105272010
  • fish82
    If Salazar had an ounce of dignity, he'd resign today as well. He's acted like a petulant little child throughout the entire incident.
  • majorspark
    BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".
    The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928
  • FatHobbit
    majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water.
    Kevon Costner?! That's awesome, but who would have thought?
  • ptown_trojans_1
    majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".
    The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928

    No way. What thread was it where we just said Coster could save the world? Awesome.
  • j_crazy
    am i the only one curious as to why the water coming out of that machine was bright red?
  • cbus4life
    ptown_trojans_1 wrote:
    majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".
    The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928

    No way. What thread was it where we just said Coster could save the world? Awesome.
    Hahaha, that is priceless.
  • majorspark
    ptown_trojans_1 wrote:
    majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".
    The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.
    http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928

    No way. What thread was it where we just said Coster could save the world? Awesome.
    http://www.ohiochatter.com/Thread-What-Federal-Programs-and-Departments-in-the-Executive-Branch-need-to-be-eliminated
  • QuakerOats
    Newt was absolutely fantastic again last night.

    http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,593618,00.html

    He took obama admin to the woodshed; just some great insight included in his remarks.
  • fish82
    I'm surprised that it took Her Majesty this long, but Queen Nancy has finally come to the painfully obvious realization that this whole farking mess is in fact, Bush's fault.

    http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/pelosi-blames-bush-administration-for-bp-oil-spill-95175304.html

    November is going to be a bloodbath. I'm starting to pop my popcorn now so I know I'll have enough. :D
  • Glory Days
    ...I’ve heard no complaints from my members about the way the president has handled it,” Pelosi stated.
    haha no shit sherlock!
  • tk421
    I'd give anything if Pelosi would disappear.
  • majorspark
    Looks like "top kill" has failed. Oil continues to pour into the gulf.

    http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/05/29/bp-says-latest-effort-plug-leak-succeeded-mulling-options/
  • tk421
    Not that I want to jinx it, but I'm surprised the gas prices haven't risen because of this spill.
  • majorspark
    tk421 wrote: Not that I want to jinx it, but I'm surprised the gas prices haven't risen because of this spill.
    That is because Bush and Cheney are no longer in power. They would have been able to get their cronies in big oil to jack up prices so they could reap windfall profits.
  • tk421
    majorspark wrote:
    tk421 wrote: Not that I want to jinx it, but I'm surprised the gas prices haven't risen because of this spill.
    That is because Bush and Cheney are no longer in power. They would have been able to get their cronies in big oil to jack up prices so they could reap windfall profits.
    Yeah, Obama and his administration are clearly the enemies of Big Oil.
  • Mr. 300
    Well, if Obama and his admin have been on top of this thing as he stated this week, that makes him and his admin a complete and utter failure. If he's going to cover his ass by claiming this, then he gets the bad press of not getting it done, not BP.