Cleaning up the Oil Spill with PAPER TOWELS

IMO (my opinion only), BP is playing several angles.

1) The "shears" they used to cut the piping on the well could very easily have been fitted with jaws instead of blades, and crimped the pipe almost shut. The pipe is pliable enough to do so, you can tell by the way it warped and bent when the platform sank. 3 or 4 good crimps would have reduced the flow to a trickle. Instead, where it was leaking through cracks in the pipe, they increased the flow with a clean cut. Why? So they could "capture" the "escaping" oil. In other words, they're still working their well.

2) The ridiculous "cleanup" effort. They WANT the government to step in, and to use resources, material and manpower that BP has not approved, for reasons I've already mentioned. So they can take that to court and claim they should not have to pay for efforts they didn't initiate.

What our government really needs to do, IMO, is pull the ticket on all active BP Operations within the continental US until they get on the ball. Shut down every functioning operation they have for Safety and Compliance inspections, and keep them down until in depth review is completed of every single emergency action plan in their game book.

Dammit! I was hoping this was good news and that we'd finally initiated "Operation: Paper Towels".

Nope...sorry...just more "fail".

Are they using the "quicker picker upper"?

Maybe I'm stupid, but don't repair shops use a different paperlike material for their disposable towels because paper towels are best at picking up water and the shop towels are best at picking up oil? So, like...shouldn't they at least be using shop towels? *headdesk*

A typical person can learn to fly an airplane in 40 to 60 hours. You'd think that in 53 days, a man could learn 2 or 3 things about what makes oil float on water, etc.

This whole thing makes me sick.

As I said in my other post, this is going to get a whole lot worse if a hurricane arrives in the gulf. What a damn horrible mess!!

Perhaps Mr. Obama thinks this catastrophe will help him get Cap and Trade passed.

It's a miracle. I AGREE!!!!!

I posted this in THE LOUNGE, but thought I would add it here, too.
BP Coffee Spill

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AAa0gd7ClM

There is plenty of finger pointing going around and no one is really DOING anything to stop it. This could have been resolved for the most part from the very beginning by burning off most of the oil when it surfaced. But the "green" people screamed NO BURNING IT WILL HURT THE ENVIROMENT. And because they have Obama in their pocket, he listened to them.

What is worse? Burning oil on the surface or letting it spread and ruin the Gulf and beaches? We have resources to help and Obama refuses to give the ok. We've had other countries willing to send down help in many forms......and Obama says no to that.

He really has no intentions of cleaning this up - all he does is wait 2 months before he decides to go "visit" Louisiana and talk about it - but not do anything else. He doesn't give a damn if ships cannot get to the Mississippi River to ship goods to the rest of the country.

We live in MN - and we won't be having any ships coming up to deliver goods. This doesn't hurt one or two states - it hurts ALL 50 states!

In Florida they have people willing to help save their beaches, but Obama won't ok their "clean up". If I were the governor of Florida, I would tell Washington DC where to go, and I would say to my people that want to help - DO IT.

Just last nite (don't have the article bookmarked) I read on the Yahoo mini news this headline "Obama tells Britain "no hard feelings" about the oil".........I didn't have time to read it and wish I had. He's running around screaming and blaming BP and won't take any of the blame himself. I'm sure you heard him quote "need to find out who's to blame so I can kick some ass" - is that any way for a President to act?

How many guesses do we get as to what the "OR ELSE!" is going to be?

HMMM "or else"...........we'll extend your time frame????? Cause I (not we) don't know what to do now since I didn't come up with any ideas and really don't want to hear yours.
(this is what Obama would probably say)....sad too.

My gut tells me both sides are laying down traps (meaning litigation traps. I don't know the correct legal terminology)

I have nothing constructive to add, other than the mushroom cloud photo with the 'operation papertowel' tagline had me laughing myself silly. I just read an article that stated sharks and dolphins, as well as other sea creatures, are coming to closer to the shores and will likely end up stranded- struggling for food and oxygen. Plug up the hole with BP execs I say. This is just sickening.

I find this thread amusing.......now that Drill Baby Drill has become Spill Baby Spill, it's all Obama's fault?

Please do tell me honestly, what would you all have said if Obama cut BP off at the knees the day of the explosion? That he wanted to take over BP? And what means does any U.S. president have over a foreign corporation, and more specifically, how fast can a change in policy against said foreign corporation be implemented? I guess he can't win whatever he does in this situation.

All I ask is that you think this through realistically, rather than taking this as another opportunity to bash Obama. Nothing ever gets solved if all you do is call someone names.

And you, my dear, didn't read my entire response. Tell me exactly what he could have done to prevent oil from reaching the soil? There are self monitoring policies (e.g. limited regulations) within the oil industry today which doesn't allow our government to step in and seize control. I don't care how many skimmer boats, dispersants, or bodies you throw at this, the oil was going to reach the shore.

It's almost like the republicans have elevated Obama to god status. You seem to think him so powerful that you expect him to be at the heart of every single decision made in the country that involves the government. Now if you want to gripe that his appointee isn't making enough progress, then blame Obama on a bad choice for that appointee. Let's talk about what his appointee is failing to do.

Exactly. The Obama bashers have a convenient tactic.
They whine because he's not doing enough to protect us from the recklesness and negligence of big corporations like BP, but when he does take action, they whine because he is implementing his deep dark socialist agenda. It's about whining, complaining, being the party of no, and finding any excuse to criticize, forgetting whatever it was they criticized the day before.

Uh...actually. The Airspace above the disaster areas after Katrina WAS closed to all civilian aircraft, to include Metro and Hospital owned Medevac helicopters. Military and Coast Guard machines only, exactly like what is happening over the spill area.

And, Lt. General Honoré, commanding the Katrina relief efforts, said that the media would have "zero access" to rescue and recovery operations.

They had access after CNN sued for it. Tell Fox News to get on the ball.

So do you want the news censored..or not?