Well, hell. Watched it. Sighhhhhhh.......
So, if I understood what the two oil people said, then the following is true:
1. the top kill has a low probability of success
2. even if it does succeed, they are stopping a “mouse” leak and ignoring the “elephant” leak
3. there is a huge (the size of MD and one other state I forget) oil plume out in the gulf and BP has treated it with a toxic “dispersant” that will make it sink to the ocean floor where the public won’t see it - it is thick and gooey and god knows what it will do to sea life in that large area
4. there’s a good chance they are putting on a show for the public with this top kill crap
5. they are ignoring advice to get tankers in there and giving a poor excuse as to why they won’t do it
We also know that the Feds aren’t doing a thing about this and the two oil guys think it will take the military to clean up that plume and to assist with stopping the leak.
One can’t help speculate as to what is really going on here. We have a pretty good idea that Obama wants to nationalize the oil industry in America. We have read that he and BP are pretty cozy, despite the “plug the damned hole” remark. If this oil disaster ends up causing complete devastation of the gulf and the gulf states, would that not then allow Obama to make his move on the energy industry “for the good of the people” and because those money grubbing, too-cheap-to-have-adequate-safety-measures corporations can’t be trusted?
Would you consider posting this video as a news item on the side bar in morning prime time so we can get a lot of people to watch it? (by the way - amazing that MSNBC is actually guilty of some real reporting! or maybe its part of BO’s agenda, don’t know)
There are a number of people here who know off shore oil drilling well enough to be able to watch this and give a very useful evaluation of what was said in the video.
That was very informative - thank you for posting it even though I did not like what I learned.
These two MIGHT have something of value to say, but they SOUND like a couple of idiots.
For instance, one says there is a huge plume six miles away. Maybe there is. But he ruins his credibility by trying to say it is coming out of the far end of the RISER, which is only 5,000 feet long!
IF there is another plume, it is coming from some other opening, which MAY, or MAY not have any relationship to this well.
The other one, with his yap about supertankers, apparently is unaware of the next plan, already in place, if the topkill and the junk shot/topkill fail. That is, removing the broken riser and extracting ALL the oil and gas leaking through the BOP, to a specially equipped ship (which ship can transfer oil to other tankers, if necessary).
On the off chance that there actually IS another plume 6 miles away, they need to send a ship and an ROV over to investigate.
DG
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