[LibertyRocks]

Is that to be expected in a situation like this? I see in the diagram that it will take 2-3 months for the relief well to be constructed, but is there nothing they can do in the meantime, and if there is, how long SHOULD it take to get that done? (Capping or whatever...)

I note that Tapscott mentions eco-terrorists. I kind of wonder whether it’s not WORSE than some out of control nature nuts... Chavez may not like the competition with “his” oil companies. Venezuela just got a bunch of new military “toys” from Putin, too. (Some are suspecting NK, but I don’t see that unless carried out for them by a proxy myself...).

Maybe Chavez lent some of his toys to Cuba???

[dalight]

Is that to be expected in a situation like this? I see in the diagram that it will take 2-3 months for the relief well to be constructed, but is there nothing they can do in the meantime, and if there is, how long SHOULD it take to get that done? (Capping or whatever...)

You know it is so hard to believe that drilling a whole new well is the only plan they have. It would seem to me that 1000ft down is not the moon and the folks who capped oil fires and such when it is above ground have tools to do this in the water just the same..

so Where the heck is Red Adair's bunch? I know he has passed but I can't believe that high risk oil services has gone out of fashion.

[CajunConservative]

http://www.nola.com/news/gulf-oil-spill/index.ssf/2010/05/teams_working_on_5_possible_so.html

[metmom]

Is that to be expected in a situation like this? I see in the diagram that it will take 2-3 months for the relief well to be constructed, but is there nothing they can do in the meantime, and if there is, how long SHOULD it take to get that done? (Capping or whatever...)

How do they expect the second one to work if the first one didn't?

What if that one goes as well? Then we have MORE oil spewing into the Gulf?