BP Oil Spill 34 Days Later - WTF?!
 

With all of the money our government spends on military nonsense, why the fuck haven't they been able to do ANYTHING to stop this devastating oil leak - OVER A MONTH LATER?!

I've been a big Obama supporter, but in this case I just don't fucking get it!

Imagine a US enemy simply targets a handful of these poorly conceived deep water oil rigs. All of our shores and sea life would be gone in no time!

This is ridiculous! Get it the fuck together already!

They left BP to stop it leaking into the sea and BP have clearly failed. Not sure what the US government can do instead though.

Pretty damn pathetic isn't it!

to me it looks as if they are going by the thought

"we don't make any money from this... we only lose money from it, so we don't care..."

They can nuke it.

The feds were on it with in a few days. Dont you remember how on day 1 jerk offs were trying to assert that this was Obama's Katrina and other stupid shit? So they came out on day 3 and the coast guard has been there ever since. BP is directing it.

As far as that goes, people are pissed as hell about the coast guard being BP's pool boy's. And I see their point especially with this shit: http://www.wwltv.com/news/gulf-oil-s...-94624594.html (check out Captain Edwin Stanton of the Coast Guard explaining why the oil was onshore and there was boom sitting on a dock and skimmers in trailers instead of in the water. Hint: he calls himself "slow and dumb").

But it's not like there's some secret oil cleanup crew that the government has and is not using. All they could do more of at this point is in helping organize and utilize resources better so there is no more oil coming onshore with unused boom sitting 10 feet away on a dock because some idiot is too slow and dumb.

They have not found any WMD's in the east, yet this oil like is clearly doing some MASS DESTRUCTION, I don't get the US goverment...

I agree, it's very surprising they haven't been able to stop it yet. How will BP's finances be after all the lawsuits etc?

34 days later?! Why would anyone think that the ONLY way to fix this is to wait for the idiots who created the problem to come up with the solution?!

I'm sorry, but at this point I am blaming the government's inaction, At LEAST as much as I blame BP's fuck up!

I actually blame the government even more, for allowing our total dependence on Big Oil to fucking continue, year after fucking year!

It's bullshit!

They leave BP to clean up the largest disaster in US history while turning a bling eye, yet they want to police each and every American in their own bedroom and will CRUCIFY you if you so much as pay your taxes late.

I love the United States of America!

time to get the army to get in there and take it fucking over.

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Well if you think it's fucked now, wait till the government takes it over, LMAO

You laugh, but it's actually a good question. Are Jindal, Palin and the like ACTUALLY complaining that OBAMA has NOT taken over something? Holy shit.

Obama has a secret panel of deep water oil cleanup experts that he's not letting help. That bastard. Where is his gift certificate?

;)

This will not bode well for Obama. I hate to say it, but it is a solid black eye for this administration, and as many of you know from my postings here - I am normally a big Obama supporter.

WHY do you think Obama has something he COULD be doing but HASNT done?

What is it?

apparently that's the last option

What is anyone supposed to do. It's not like we can just go and put a cork on it. It's like a mile below the sea. So of sucks.

I agree. :2 cents:

It is absurd that nothing has been done in over a fucking month!

Have the army corp of engineers build a cap, or a huge tube for redirection, or launch a bunker buster into the fucker, or who knows what else, but to think a stupid oil leak has stifled the entire US government and military is insane!

To add insult to injury, Obama has signed off on more of this deep water oil stupidity, and has even granted MORE permits and environmental waivers, even SINCE this disaster has happened!

Read this bullshit!...

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37309122...ew_york_times/

looks like technology sucks

i think that makes all the difference , you have shitloads of people wanting to help that arent doing anything , meanwhile millions and millions of animals are dying. the same thing happened with katrina. everyone wanted to help nobody seemed to be doing anything with all the help.

During katrina some canadian rescue dudes offered help , didn't get any response , so they took regular commercial flights from canada to the area and saved people from the rooftops, meanwhile thousands of people right next door were doing nothing because nobody did anything.

Seems to me its typical of our times. Too much time wasted pointing fingers on responsibility. If you see someone dying on the side of the road from an accident, do you stand around and point fingers to see who's fault it is before someone jumps in to help? Hell no!! I wonder why our administration cant stop trying to assign blame and hold hearings at this time when someone just needs to step up to the plate and get this done. Worry about who has to pay the bill later.:disgust

Nowdays, if you see someone dying, you stop, post about it on Twitter, then update your Facebook status...


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BP could stop it in minutes like the Russian did 4-5 time with a small nuke. But, the gov't wouldn't give them another permit to drill again. So, BP is trying to salvage it and so far they are not even fucking close. BP wants that well so they won't seal it until there is tons of pressure from the gov't (who happens to be in bed with oil companies). I'd say another month or two and billions of dollars in damage to the fishing, shrimping and just plain nature in the meantime. :mad:

"military nonsense" :ugone2far

All I have seen are the same few pieces of footage and the "live cam" that seem to be on a loop. Im curious to see what ultimately happens in the way of new legislation, and increased oil prices etc. Has anybody even been to the scene yet? So far all I've seen are talking heads. Has anyone flown over the thing live?

senators flying over today.

The oil spill is a human mistake that caused great damage. Maybe a few wars are human mistakes, too. Good luck.

When will people learn that Obama is just another face of the same old agenda.

There is a very simple solution

Tell BP that their license to do business in the US is cancelled till they stop the leak

Watch that hole get pluged in a week, maximum

Russia actually stopped similar leaks with small nukes?

Is that information true?

http://link.brightcove.com/services/...id=87314616001

they are closing local areas due to this, this oil is making its way into the bay near us and is destroying everything in sight. It has shut down multiple businesses my family owns and runs ranging from tourist fishing charters to shrimp boats that supply 3/4 of this nations shrimp.

Iam without words it is destroying us.

I am so sorry to hear that.

Big Oil Fucking Sucks Shit!!!!

From the link you just posted above....

"The suggestion is not without its problems, however, as pulling it off in a significant depth of water would provide a significant challenge. In addition, the environmental problems could compound if radiation is accidentally released."

Maybe not such a cut-and-dry solution after all?

When do you guys predict this leak will be truly sealed?

Do you think BP will be allowed to keep using the same rig?

Does anyone think this incident will change our dependence on oil?

Will Haliburton receive any fines for this? Will BP?

When will the fishing and shrimping industries that this is destroying ever come back?

How will this effect the word's seafood prices?

Has Exxon ever finished the cleanup of their oil spill from 1989?

Will Exxon ever pay their fine for the Valdez oil spill, even now, after the fine has been reduced to a fraction of what it was originally?

Will the US EVER fucking get off its dependence of dirty fossil fuels?

Etc, etc....

I wouldn't use a nuke,
BUT
My idea about taking away BP's permission to operate in the US till it's fixed would get it done faster I believe