[null and void]

Worst-case scenario is this thing gushes for decades, so could it possibly burn for decades?

Worst case? Not even close...

I’m still holding out for OilBama to try to blast it shut with a nuke.

It is the worst possible solution, the one most damaging to America, and therefore the one The One is most apt to use.

With luck he can diddle daddle long enough to have to do it in a blind panic just before a major hurricane lances into America’s soft white underbelly.

Such a nuke would:

• Replace an 18” dia pipe leaking oil with a quarter mile wide crater over bedrock shattered all the way down to the full oil deposit.
• Violate international nuclear weapon treaties.
• Flash abundant amounts of sea water into steam both by the bomb itself and the exposed hot crust/magma.
• Provide a thermal turbocharge boost to convert an ordinary hurricane into a continent crossing hypercane.
• Inundate America’s breadbasket farmland with a deluge of radioactive, oily saltwater all the way up to the Canadian border.
• And who knows? It might even shake loose the New Madrid fault.

And as a special bonus he could then use the results to ban all oil drilling and eliminate America’s entire nuclear arsenal.

From his viewpoint, what’s not to love?

[DTogo]

Nothing like a little sensationalism on a Friday morning...

[P.O.E.]

You’re right - there are plenty of worst-case scenarios out there (not sure if “worst” is really applicable anymore, since there doesn’t seem to really be a “good” outcome anywhere).

The question is which does the gummint choose - so far it seems content to purposefully let it ride in the hope they can speechify themselves into a position of further power. In order to get power, they need to weaken regular Americans, and they’ve got quite a menu of options from which to choose.

[Myrddin]

You left out igniting the methane and oil with the nuke.