[a real Sheila]

THANKS!
These feeds are great!

WOW!
and I don’t mean that in a good way.
What a gusher! SOOOO sad!

Everyone here PLEASE say a PRAYER that they are successful with the cap! I cannot imagine this oil volcano going on for months awaiting the relief well.

My heart has broken a little more each day that this thing has gone on.

We need a screen grab of this to put on a T-shirt and caption it
“Obama’s Legacy.”

[commish]

Everyone here PLEASE say a PRAYER that they are successful with the cap! I cannot imagine this oil volcano going on for months awaiting the relief well.

Just remember though, as bad as this is, the flow from this well is not even 1/3 what was coming out of IXTOC I when it blew out in 1979; and IXTOC pumped oil into the gulf for over 9 months from only a few miles off shore without destroying the gulf. The environmental damage from IXTOC I reversed itself in less than a year for the most part -- I say most part because you can still find a small layer of oil on South Padre Island if you dig down a few feet.

Bottom line, as horrible a situation as this is right now, and as much damage as it is and has caused, it is a drop in the bucket compared to what naturally leaks into the oceans and when compared to past events.

The gulf will recover and will recover quickly once this thing is capped.

[djf]

Couple good tropical storms and you’d have a hard time finding any evidence that an oil spill ever happened...

[Lowcountry]

We need a screen grab of this to put on a T-shirt and caption it “Obama’s Legacy.”

This would be a big mistake IMHO. I think conservatives, capitalists and efficient energy advocates will be hurt by making this an ever increasing political issue. If conservatives try to make the blowout a part of Obama's legacy, the left will defend Obama by closing down the petroleum industry just as they shut down the Nuclear power industry after Three Mile Island.

Don't kid yourself, be it salt, cigarettes, fat or petroleum, the nanny state is looking to put certain industries out of business as soon as possible thru regulation or taxation. All they need is the condition precedent to make a sympathetic case. This blowout cannot and will not be pinned to Obama. What can be pinned to Obama is the filthy coastline that federal regulation prevented from being protected by the states.