Located in Gulf of Mexico. Near LA,MS, Al, and FLA coasts. May or may not make it's way to the Eastern seaboard! First come first served!!!! ou: I've been away from the 'puter for 2 weeks and an surprised to find no thread about this.o No: All I want to say right now is $hit!$hit,$hit!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!:rant: :af: :spank: This was taken days ago from space. @210,000 gal a day, it's bigger now......:shock:
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Its unbelievable, they're saying it'll be weeks to months before they can stop the oil leak depending on how things go.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Hard to believe in today's times that a company was not responsible for having a plan for something like this! Maybe they had a plan and it was a joke! This is a horrible event that came at the worst time too.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Can I just wait til it flows up to my front door??? Then I won't have to make the trip! :laugh: Seriously, WHAT A NIGHTMARE!!!
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Sing this like the oil companies doing Pink Floyd "we don't need no regulation"
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! You missed my 15 minutes of flame before it got yanked as too political!
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! You know what's really screwed up about that picture? The oil slick looks like a hurricane headed for La.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! You guys have had enough hardship,now the fisheries (jobs) are gonna take a hit. Better stock up on flash-frozen shrimp while you can! I remember reading about an oil eating bacteria that could be used to help treat oil spills. I don't know if that was just developing technology, or if it is a viable control solution.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Most of the time the government requires them to have a back-up plan - in this case there was no requirement in place to put a "stop cap" on the hole which is prolonging this disaster.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Here's an old article on the subject: http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/news/2004/12/66017
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Truly sad that there is absolutely no plan to deal with this disaster. My heart goes out to all those who will be impacted by this mess.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! We will all be impacted by this mess. Just some more than others. If BP actually pays for all the damage they will be out of business. There is a good chance that this will be the greatest envionmental disaster in modern history.
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! Hopefully this visualization makes sense if you don't know what's going on. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLiqvZOP8TY&playnext_from=TL&videos=u4vEYZBfowo&feature=featured
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! J, I was waiting for you to start the post being that you are a bit closer than me. Saturday morning I hit the seafood market, Picked up 60 lbs. Shrimp, 10 lbs. Trout, and some other stuff, I wanted one last tast of untanted seafood. Even though the local markets say they will have it flown in. Im sure there wil be a bit of a mark up. Things were startimg to look up being Katrina was around 5 years ago. This is going too Suck, FOR YEARS....
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! I don't see how BP is going to survive this. Buick related? You don't think that this will impact the price of fuel for our Buicks?
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! it's a sicken feeling to see that . my frriends are down at the new orleans jazz festival last week should see some pictures soon. all i can say is get your check book out BP. johnny
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! I fuel up the '96 Riviera with 93 premium every friday at a BP station that is next to my bank. Not so sure I can patronize them anymore sorry to say. I know the station owner didn't have a hand in what happened, but....
Re: Free Oil!!!!! Come Get'cha Free Oil!!!! BP, like any other entity with any sense at all, would do all possible to avoid any forseable circumstance that might lead to a disaster like this. Individual actions or inactions (if there were any) that might have caused this probably seamed perfectly reasonable at the time. We all employ risk management everyday to the way we drive, the way we build our engines, the way we conduct our businesses, the way we raise our kids, etc. etc. etc. There is no way that this disaster is inside the BP business plan. Meanwhile, as tragic as this is, I'm quite sure that many of the same people who will now seek to eviscerate BP were bitching about the cost of fuel not so many moons ago. To them I say "how much more are you willing spend on fuel to MAYBE see a disaster like this avoided next time?"
