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The thing that is pissing me off to no end is the amount of time and money being spent trying to figure out what caused it and how much is dumping

Posted by Jim (aka Jim) May 26 '10, 08:03

into the water.

For fuck's sake...who gives a fuck? Fix the fucking problem, THEN have your commission figure out what happened.

And does it matter even one iota what the actual amount dumping every day is?? Every minute spent trying to figure this stuff out is one minute that COULD be spent trying to fix it.

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it's pretty easy to do both. it's not like they're pulling people off recovery operations to testify before congress. -- nm - mafic May 26, 08:24
i agree, which is why i am happy that the Feds are trying to investiage this while BP trys to stop the leak - tRuMaN May 26, 08:12 2
- Your IM is important. Obama can't just snap his fingers and fix it. You wish they didn't need BP but they do. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:14 1
  - ayup. and you cannot really undergo a good investigation of something while you rely on the same people to fix the problem - tRuMaN May 26, 08:15
A company as big as BP can do more than one thing at once. Sure, fixing the leak should be the main priority, but it's not as though throwing more - Roger More May 26, 08:10 1
- Exactly. There's nothing simple about it. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:11
i sort of figured that the people doing that reporting and calculations aren't qualified to work on the actual problem. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:07 1
- yeah, I don't see how an independent examination would interfere with efforts. That argument doesn't hold water, IMO -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:10
it's a gusher a mile down, underwater - wheezy May 26, 08:05
Technically they are fixing the problem. Aren't they digging the relief well? That will just take months. -- nm - Dano May 26, 08:05
Of course it matters how much is being released. -- nm - Don Homer May 26, 08:05 5
- sure. How else will the administration know how much to fine BP when all is said and done - znufrii May 26, 08:08
- Once it gets to a certain point - and it's probably already well past that point - there's not much they can actually do. The efforts are just tokens. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:06 3
  - i don't agree with that. ask someone who's been in a flood. that extra foot of water DOES matter, for instance. -- nm - Andie May 26, 08:07 2
    - Oh, it does matter. For sure. There's just nothing you can *do* about it. -- nm - Beryllium May 26, 08:09 1
      - right. at the moment, the only practical purposes for exactly quantifying the flow is to know how to deploy dispersants (spoiler: a shitload) - TFox May 26, 08:11
100% agree. -- nm - TFox May 26, 08:03
Well...this was supposed to be below...but I guess it's a new thread. *shrugs* -- nm - Jim May 26, 08:03

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