British Petroleum says that by cutting off the riser pipe that oil might increase 10-20% temporarily until they put a cap on it. My gut level feeling based on straightening out a kink in a water hose is that the flow rate will increase more like 3 times what it is now. Do we actually believe the 20% number?
I think we can fix this problem by giving BP executives a nice bonus.
There seems to be no solution to this BP mess.
But here is my solution to the NEXT oil disaster: 2% off the price of every barrel pumped goes to safety, prevention and cleanup technology.
The media keep saying this disaster is “unprecedented” but this is a lie.
We gotta get ahead of these things.
@22 Yeah lets charge even more for oil that will solve the problem.
#16 Breetai
“The REAL PROBLEM I have is that it’s Deja Vu all over again.”
So she drags up something that happened over 32 years ago in Mexico to a well being drilled by a Mexican company? I have known over 500 active drilling rigs in the Louisiana Gulf simultaneously drilling and she had to go back 32 years for a horror story? Why didn’t she hammer on the MMS a little to?
This is not to diminish the tragedy occurring now or excuse BP’s actions but overall for the Gulf of Mexico that’s a pretty good safety record.
@ # 12 DrWally
Cancer was possibly cured ages ago in the 30s.
Look up “Royal Rife”
you can thank greedy big pharma and the AMA for shutting him down, they into treatments not cures, no money in healthy people now..
Why not just burn the oil?
“Why not just burn the oil?”
Now THAT would be an environmental disaster!
When I had my first heart attack, some sixteen years ago, a surgeon asked the question of me and others awaiting a by-pass “If you reduce the diameter of a fluid conducting vessel by half, what do you reduce the volume of flow to.” I’ve probably mis-stated this, but I’m sure someone will correct me. But it comes back to my addled brain as 1/16th of it’s former volume.
It appears to me that this same equation could somehow be applied to BP shares i.e. if you reduce public confidence by half-doing your job of shutting down the escaping oil flow, what is the new value of your shares 1/16th?
Any heart specialists care to tell me where I am wrong (don’t want to hear from share experts, they have 100% failure rate on things judged by the sub-prime F.up).
I said it before and I’ll say it again, I’ve exhausted this subject and it’s exhausted me. Let it pour, 2 more years and it won’t make a bit of difference. A hard rain is gonna fall.
Rev. 8:8
And the second angel sounded, and as it were a great mountain burning with fire was cast into the sea: and the third part of the sea became blood;