After another failure, BP scrambles to stem oil leak

The beginning of the end for BP?

Hurricane means that oil droplets would be transported inland with the wind. It is going to rain crude oil. After fisheries and farmers inland not far away from the coasts will experience a new ecological and economic disaster. I'm not even talking about cities...

But I thought Obama told them to "plug the d@#% leak". I guess Obama's "boot on BP's throat" isn't working?

manfromamerica: more oil = more damage = more to pay for BP. It is in BP's interest to plug the d@#% leak as soon as possible.

The eco-wackos are partially to blame for forcing drilling at unsafe depths.

manfromamerica: more oil = more damage = more to pay for BP. It is in BP's interest to plug the d@#% leak as soon as possible.

Yes, and that is the reason capitalism works. The Obama jokers, however, do not work.

manfromamerica:

The eco-wackos are partially to blame for forcing drilling at unsafe depths.

Haha! yeah... right...

Yes, and that is the reason capitalism works. The Obama jokers, however, do not work.

I don't understand... Please explain...

I dont understand why the US Navy has not just gone in with a high powered explosive or small nuke to stop this thing but I guess that most military explosives would implode at that depth.

A rough equation may be 44lbs of pressure,per square inch, per 100 feet of depth.

So at that depth around 8800 lb psi, which would crush anything we could send down there. I guess that is why this option has not been tabled but I am no professional on US Naval power so maybe they have something.

In other news today BP CEO was denying that there are underwater plumes formed from this leak. These guys are just bad news, and if they screw up the well cap, which is probable, they'll make things even worse.

This is why there should be no offshore drilling.

BP more and more resembles Wile E. Coyote going after the Road Runner, each plan crazier and more far fetched than the last one.

Also, the endless attempts to turn s technolgical problem into a political issue hits new depths of pathetic, even by American standards. Oooh, it's Obama's Katrina, yada, yada, yada. Not even worth commenting on, other than to say the American political culture is obviously in terminal condition, if not already dead. Just a lot of folks shouting about stuff that they know nothing about.

Drilling in ANWR is cheaper, easier, much less likely for result in a spill, and much easier to fix if a spill does happen. However, the enviro-lobby is forcing drilling away from the coastlines and into more risky areas like this.

I don't understand... Please explain...

Didn't you just back up my point by saying "more oil = more damage = more to pay for BP. It is in BP's interest to plug the d@#% leak as soon as possible." Government has (1) no motivation to act quickly, (2) no ability to act, while BP has both.

hey sushi, your administration gave BP a full exemption on this drilling site last year... oops.

manfromamerica - "Here come the Obama excuses. Sushi, you are a party-line guy, always dependable to cut & paste the Dem talking points. I wish you could also post something you've thought."

That's a real lame comeback. You didn't present any counter argument at all. No doubt, out of the knowledge that I could be right.

manfromamerica - "hey sushi, your administration gave BP a full exemption on this drilling site last year... oops."

Even if that is true, how would the feds know if the drilling bill of health was accurate and honest without posting federal agents on every drilling rig? But then you would cry "socialism!" and "government takeover!"

You need to start coming up with some half-credible arguments.

Until then, I'll wait patiently. :-)

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Yes it is right. Drilling in ANWR is cheaper, easier, much less likely for result in a spill, and much easier to fix if a spill does happen. However, the enviro-lobby is forcing drilling away from the coastlines and into more risky areas like this.

eco-wackos as you say don't want any drilling anywhere. Land or sea.

Didn't you just back up my point by saying "more oil = more damage = more to pay for BP. It is in BP's interest to plug the d@#% leak as soon as possible." Government has (1) no motivation to act quickly, (2) no ability to act, while BP has both.

If the government wasn't imposing BP to pay for the damages, BP would just not do anything.

eco-wackos as you say don't want any drilling anywhere. Land or sea.

But the enviro-lobby in congress wants the drilling, just father offshore.

If the government wasn't imposing BP to pay for the damages, BP would just not do anything.

They'd just let the spill continue and move on? I may be wrong, but that's money they are losing with each barrel-worth being spilled.

Citing internal BP documents, the New York Times reported on Sunday that engineers expressed concern as early as June 2009 about the well casing used in the Deepwater Horizon operation. A report by a BP engineer that month warned that the casing could collapse under the high pressure at the depths BP was drilling. “This would certainly be a worst-case scenario,” Mark E. Hafle, a senior drilling engineer at BP, wrote in the report. “However, I have seen it happen so know it can occur.” According to the Times, “The company went ahead with the casing, but only after getting special permission from BP colleagues because it violated the company’s safety policies and design standards. The internal reports do not explain why the company allowed for an exception.” The Times goes on to report, “In April of this year, BP engineers concluded that the casing was ‘unlikely to be a successful cement job,’ according to a document, referring to how the casing would be sealed to prevent gases from escaping up the well.” The document also concluded that the casing was unlikely to fulfill regulatory requirements from the MMS.

manfromamerica still has zero answers re: the real cause of this disaster.

Hint: It's not this president.

manofamerica: But the enviro-lobby in congress wants the drilling, just father offshore.

Enviro-lobby wants clean energy, renewable energy. Oil lobby wants to drill everywhere they can.

They'd just let the spill continue and move on? I may be wrong, but that's money they are losing with each barrel-worth being spilled.

Even BP wasn't supposed to pay for the damage, see how much it costs them just to fix the hole. Would they have make enough profit out of it afterward? For now, watch your sea shores and life being destroyed day after day.

Just as Obama is blamed for sinking the Korean war in order to intimidate Hoto chan to accept Futema as it is, so is he being blamed for the spill in order to make offshore drilling more difficult. When will such children grow?

SushiSake: Hint: It's not this president.

It's BP. Given your love of the environment I'm sure you wouldn't mind seeing them put out of business, ne.

Superlib, after this disaster, I'm sure most of your countryfolk would love to see BP go out of business, too.

This has nothing to do with Obama nor eco nuts, the extreme right need to get back on their meds and/or see their specialists....

BP's blatant dis-regard for proper safety valve procedure and other un-believable associated corner-cutting is to blame. No one else.

As for the beginning of the end for BP, I doubt it. I'm betting they'll still be posting record profits at the end of the year whilst we all continue to get shafted for the price of a tank of fuel.

Actually this is the first time this drill design has ever has any problems remotely this close. What happened was an accident period, end of point.

Now the American government did wait how long before even saying anything about this? It was like 11 days.

To this day Obama's government is refusing to give permission to the state of Louisiana to build sand bars to keep the oil off the marsh lands. The federal government did not move in to help contain the spill when it first occurred.

If America had not gone down the road the econuts wanted us to then this well would have been in much more shallow water and would have been stopped a long time ago.

This spill in my opinion was left to get out of control by the bamster to justify NO more oil drilling!

America is the only country that is not drilling in the gulf of mexico right now or not drilling new wells so obviously if its so dangerous then why are we the only ones refusing to look for more oil.

Now another think, this rig blew up the day before earth day and the day before the Senate was supposed to vote to bring the cap and tax bill to the floor. America is full of eerie coincidences these days.

America is the only country that is not drilling in the gulf of mexico right now or not drilling new wells so obviously if its so dangerous then why are we the only ones refusing to look for more oil.

right on.