Amazing Pictures of the Oil Spill

[Jon88]

Well Jon. Let's put it this way. How many years have they been drilling in the Gulf of Mexico? How many spills have they had? If you have a car accident on the highway, you don't shut down the highway.

Plus, this wasn't the fault of the oil company, once again, this was the fault of a defective part that was bought by the owners of the platform from a supplier. BP had ZERO to do with this failure. As a matter of fact, this platform that was owned by Deepwater Horizons received a safety award recentl from the government.

That's how I can defend it. I'm sorry about the coast. I'm sorry about animals. I'm sorry about the mess. I'm also sorry that we have to drill for oil but we do. It's not like there are other options. We NEED the oil and we have to go get it. It's ours.

I love that. I need to save it.

 

[Cajuncowboy]

I like your answer. I'm with you.

Thank you. And to be clear going forward. I hope and pray that we can find an alternative to oil. Actually there are energy companies, oil companies included who are exploring other means of energy. They are doing for obvious reasons because they want to make profits. If they come up with a real alternative and it is cheaper to produce and can get it in the hands of more people, they will make far more money they do now.

But until that time, oil is the best we have and whether we like it or not, we need it.

 

[Dallas]

That's completely false.

But it is completely hilarious.

 

[Hoofbite]

Pretty gross stuff.

I was gonna post the thread about how the spill is much bigger than anyone was letting on but figured the thread would get closed.

Props to those who are allowing this one to stay open.

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Thank you. And to be clear going forward. I hope and pray that we can find an alternative to oil. Actually there are energy companies, oil companies included who are exploring other means of energy. They are doing for obvious reasons because they want to make profits. If they come up with a real alternative and it is cheaper to produce and can get it in the hands of more people, they will make far more money they do now.

But until that time, oil is the best we have and whether we like it or not, we need it.

Right on man, right on.

 

[Hoofbite]

Damn. That water looks awful.

Just watched a video on CNN and one of the officials in New Orleans said that the oil is being sunk to depths of 50 fit as a means of hiding it. He was obviously emotional and I don't know how true that statement is but if it was true, or if the oil is going down half that, that is a ton of oil.

I guess BP is going to try and seal the thing on Wednesday but what if that doesn't work?

We talking a few more months of this?

 

[SaltwaterServr]

Damn. That water looks awful.

Just watched a video on CNN and one of the officials in New Orleans said that the oil is being sunk to depths of 50 fit as a means of hiding it. He was obviously emotional and I don't know how true that statement is but if it was true, or if the oil is going down half that, that is a ton of oil.

I guess BP is going to try and seal the thing on Wednesday but what if that doesn't work?

We talking a few more months of this?

You don't want to be contemplating a few more months of this. Hurricane season is right around the corner.

The oil can be naturally stratifying under layers of various densities of salinity and temperature. Those stratification layers exist at different depths at different locations at any one time of the year. There may be a major layer at 50-65' that is acting as a ceiling for some of it.

To purposely "sink oil" seems like an idiotic statement from an uninformed bureaucrat. What technology are they using to push it down to a depth that it won't resurface again in a few hours or days???

If there is some sitting at 50', its because of the depth of that part of the slick extends that deep from the surface or it is trapped in a natural stratification layer.

 

[TwoCentPlain]

Wow! So much here to tear apart and don't know where to start. So I won't.

Yeah, right.

If you could, you would. You can't, so you make excuses.

It ain't my fault you don't know where to start.