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Gulf oil spill.At what point does the gov't declare this a national emergency or something whereupon all resources are dedicated at any & every level.

Posted by HdnAgnda (aka HDNAGNDA) May 20 '10, 06:17

Can't the gov't do something along those lines? News articles today are painting an even worse picture in terms of the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf.

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at the point that a sitting one term president would rather own the disaster than just to let it be all BP's to spin....nm - x May 20, 06:41
I'm more interested in the government getting its sh!t tight to make sure oil companies can't cut corners so this doesn't happen again. -- nm - znufrii May 20, 06:39
what exactly are they going to do that isn't already being done? -- nm - mafic May 20, 06:21 25
- I honestly don't know. I keep hearing about BP's plans, BP's plans and mud and golf balls. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 20, 06:27 11
  - Oh and of course the digging of the relief well that will take a few months. -- nm - HdnAgnda May 20, 06:35 10
    - there's nothing you can do to speed that up. deep water drilling is slow at the best of times. -- nm - mafic May 20, 06:38 9
      - thinking the relif well is going to stop things is also disilutional - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:44 8
        
        no it isn't. a relief well will most likely work, and it's not like they're pinning all their hopes on that anyway. -- nm - mafic May 20, 06:48 5
        
        a relief well will most likely work - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:51 4
        
        it's not delusional to think that something will probably work, if it will actually probably work. -- nm - mafic May 20, 07:23 1
        
        You're "disilutional" if you think you're use of logic and reasonning will work -- nm - Guigue May 20, 07:26
        
        You're like that crazy lawyer on TV who makes a really insane closing argument and is convinced he won the case -- nm - Guigue May 20, 07:05 1
        
        and you're like the sports commetator discussing - Danedukenuuk May 20, 07:08
        
        It's "disilutional" because it "might not stop the spill"? - Guigue May 20, 06:47 1
        
        yes it might not stop the spill - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:53
- start accepting this is a worst case scenario ? - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:24 12
  - what makes you think they haven't? there's only so much that can be done. -- nm - mafic May 20, 06:27 11
    - estimates of spill on the low side and as far as i can see BP has repeatatly done small things to look better - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:30 10
      - $625 million in a month isn't big enough for you? -- nm - mafic May 20, 06:37 9
        
        the problem is: is 625 a month enough to plug the hole? -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:42 8
        
        Is any amount enough? - Guigue May 20, 06:43 7
        
        thoose are the times you accept you don't have the tech to do something in the first place - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:45 6
        
        So your solution is do nothing because nothing will work, instead just sink the company for making the mistake... - Guigue May 20, 06:48 5
        
        drill baby drill is not always the only answer - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:50 4
        
        I don't even know what you're talking about anymore - Guigue May 20, 07:04 3
        
        we're trying to get you up to speed and not (exactly not) discussing any new projects - Danedukenuuk May 20, 07:09 2
        
        First, who is we?!? Second, I haven't seen you suggest any new solution, unless you consider bankrupting the company a solution -- nm - Guigue May 20, 07:11 1
        
        can't you for once stay on topic? - Danedukenuuk May 20, 07:17
when the figure out the all management of BP are members of Al-Qaida -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:20 1
- the=that -- nm - Danedukenuuk May 20, 06:21

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