OK, this oil spill is getting TOO rediculous. It's been a full month and BP has failed to get it under control. There are several things wrapped up in this.
Cleanup: I've wondered why it is so EXTREMELY difficult as I have not heard word one of pumps. Hasn't anyone thought of getting freighters out there with bog boats and pumps to suck the oil off the surface? It seems to me that you could clean up quite a bit like that. I have tried, but I cannot think of a reason why this would not work. It seems that they are all about "containment" or chemical cleanup, and not thinking simply enough. I also thought that they had this cleanup problem licked back after Exxon Valdese, but no, the oil companies raise their prices (just because they can, not because of any shortage) and keep it instead of investing it in safety technologies. But sucking the oil up is so basic that it should have been the first thing they thought of. I just don't get it.
Also, they drop this big "cap" down onto the leak in an effort to contain it, and they miss te leak. HOW!!??!!?? This is a big bloody leak with an even bigger cap. With the technology we now have in underwater drones, they should have had some down there directing the cap. When they "missed," they should have simple raised it up and slid it in to position. I'm no idiot and I don't see how, or why, they could miss capping this thing off. Unless they wanted to, which brings us to . . .
Money: What with saving the green stuff at the cost of the green and the black (environment and oil), I'm sure BP is skimping on the cost of cleanup. After all, this is going to get expensive. The oil companies are notorious for their greed, after all, that's what oil is all about. It runs our cars, cures our ill and powers our industry. The need of greed is so great that the oil companies and the auto industry work closely together to keep the gasoline in need. This is NOT a conspiracy theory, it is fact (I'll cover this in a later blog). So, the advantage to letting this continue, if there is one, is that the price of oil can go moronically high, justified by the cost of cleanup and the GREAT loss of oil, even though it's only one well, I'm sure it makes up about 99.99% of the oil in the world. Sure, the price of oil is going down, but let's see what the future has to show. Now, without a lead in, I go to the last factor . . .
Terrorism: I'm suure you knew that word would come up. Some of my friends (and family) believe this to be the work of terrorists, whereas others believe that BP will manufacture evidence to claim terrorism, just to get out of the responsibility. I am more prone to believe the latter. If it was a terrorist attack, someone would be taking credit for this and National Security would be having a field day. Of course, now that it is out there (to those few who read this) if evidence of terrorism was brought up, we should be seriously wondering. Unless, of course, your are already in the camp of those who already believe. Of course, in a link to the previous factor, Middle East oil companies will use the disastor to raise their prices to fund more terrorism overseas (and possibly here). They claim it's not being used for that, but I, for some reason, cannot believe that. Ther has been too much correlation between rising oil costs and rising terrorist (or insugency) incidents for me. But hey, maybe on this, I'm being paranoid, like the rest of the nation.
So, there is my take on this debacle (I do love that word. debacle. hehe)
Take care
Charles
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What I dont understand is that this platform was inspected and passed by the Obama Administation. The report went on to say that it should be the example for other platforms to follow. This happens at the same time that the left wing of the Democrat Party is up in arms about the president saying that we would allow expansion of exploration in the gulf( not drilling). Now he has it both ways. He can tell the right he tried and tell the left no expansion because it isn't safe.
ReplyDeleteWhat I find funny(and not Ha-Ha) is that that the private sector is the only group doing anything active, evan if BP is going about it in a scewed up way. The one ship we have in the gulf designed for this type of work was containing a damaged trawler and not allowed to help..hmmmm??
I had to do a little research on this. I assumed oil rigs were permanent fixtures and took years to build, which would have put this firmly in the Bush II era. I was SO wrong. Deepwater Horizon is a moveable exploratory drill base that didn't start at the Macondo Prospect site until Feb 2010. In fact, in a report on the explosion; I learned that the workers were in the process of capping the well prior to leaving when it exploded. So, yes; this makes it, in part, Obama's fault.
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