BP disputes these results, and maintains there is no reliable way to calculate the flow of oil from a broken pipe.

But, Harris said, the uncertainty could be reduced if BP would share more information with the scientists.

But the company only wants to do what is best! BP deserves to be eviscerated about this. But hey, even going by the low end estimates, 20,000/day, we've matched Exxon Valdez at this point. It will take ~90 days to drill and cap the damn leak. A spill at least six times greater than the Exxon Valdez, covering the Gulf of Mexico and possibly going into a major ocean current. DRILL, BABY, DRILL.

How's that oily-drilly thing working out for ya?

So at this new rate, how long do they have to cap it before it's worse than the Ixtoc 1 blowout?

Lumpmoose: You ever get the feeling that humans had exactly the time period between the industrial revolution and April 20, 2010 to wean themselves off fossil fuels? It feels like a game of inevitability that we failed miserably.

no but i get the feeling that this has all happened before, and will so again...

Oh, and if you have any question of where Republicans stand on this issue, let me show you this: an Alaska Republican Senator, Lisa Murkowski, has blocked the change to the law where oil companies are liable for more than $75M in damages. Link. Republicans, blocking oil companies from paying anything more than the tiniest of indemnities. The party who cares about the American people indeed. DRILL, BABY, DRILL.

jbuist: As I recall the equipment they didn't bother with to prevent this would have only cost half a million.

If you mean that acoustic sensor, it probably wouldn't have made a difference. It just provides another path to send a signal to the BOP, and doesn't help if the actual shutoff mechanisms in the BOP are defective.

Just wait until the spill is visible from space. There should be public hanging for this shiat.

neapoi: Just wait until the spill is visible from space. There should be public hanging for this shiat.

Have you not seen all the satellite pictures?

tallguywithglasseson: Nabb1: BP: "Nobody's burning anything."

Didn't BP test out controlled burns it a couple weeks ago? I thought that didn't work so well.

They did a few burns, and I have no idea who stopped them, or why. Haven't seen any proof one way or another either.

Did NPR just post a video of a streaming video on their website? Are they sponsored by MS or just retarded?

Ah Ah Ah...

God farking damn it.

/New Orleans Resident.

Every time a candidate starts talking about serious solar, wind, or hydro power people either roll their eyes or freak out about the potential cost. Well, we're seeing the cost now of the status quo.

Let me repeat that.

God. FARKING.

DAMN IT.

Am I the only one who didn't see the last "O" in the headline at first?

One of the more interesting articles I've read is that the high pressure oil hitting the high pressure 5,000 feet ocean floor creates a sort of 'fracking' (I believe that's the correct term) and was separating the oil into different weights and forms of hydrocarbons. Because of this, over 80% of the oil never makes it to the surface and is hanging around in the mid to upper ocean levels. This subsurface oil is pretty much killing everything in the sea.

Drill, Baby, Drill!

CaesarSneezy: Every time a candidate starts talking about serious solar, wind, or hydro power people either roll their eyes or freak out about the potential cost. Well, we're seeing the cost now of the status quo.

I have trouble sympathizing with the plight of a migratory shore bird dumb enough to fly into a wind turbine when I stack it up next to some of the continent's largest estuaries and wetlands, and a few thousand miles of shoreline.

And today Shell gets approval from gov agencies to drill in Alaska.

This is all the fault of conservatives.

Goddamn you Obama!

Politicizing this is self defeating. This is everyone's problem.

Occam's Chainsaw: CaesarSneezy: Every time a candidate starts talking about serious solar, wind, or hydro power people either roll their eyes or freak out about the potential cost. Well, we're seeing the cost now of the status quo.

I have trouble sympathizing with the plight of a migratory shore bird dumb enough to fly into a wind turbine when I stack it up next to some of the continent's largest estuaries and wetlands, and a few thousand miles of shoreline.

Don't forget Wind Turbine Syndrome, the lulziest bash on Wind Power I've ever read.

1-2-3-4-5...6-7-8-9-10...11-12. 12!!! Doo-doo do-do...

"We're all gonna die."

Also, unfortunately it's against the FarQ, but I'd like to take a moment to call out those farkers who claimed that the rig would never sink, an oil spill was impossible, and that deep sea drilling is entirely safe. You know who you are, and each day that passes, and this disaster becomes larger, you're just that much more wrong.

90% of my mind is on how terrible it is for the region's economy and the long term effects of the ecology and wildlife.

10% of me is happy to see that within the same month, pro-drilling & pro-coal retards are being proven to an undeniable point that it's time to start investing in other energy sources. Look at the lengths and the cost in human lives we're giving now. Peak oil in the US happened decades ago. The fossil fuel era is coming to an end.

Occam's Chainsaw: CaesarSneezy: Every time a candidate starts talking about serious solar, wind, or hydro power people either roll their eyes or freak out about the potential cost. Well, we're seeing the cost now of the status quo.

I have trouble sympathizing with the plight of a migratory shore bird dumb enough to fly into a wind turbine when I stack it up next to some of the continent's largest estuaries and wetlands, and a few thousand miles of shoreline.

And the livelihoods of roughly 3 million people.

Seriously. I can't even imagine this state without the fishing industries, the damn bottom will just fall out. No (or reduced), fishing, tourism, commercial and rec charters.

I'm fairly sure that wipes out about a damn third of our economy.
Someone do the math. shiat's depressing.

They knew there would be trouble when the oil hit the annulus.

/and when the methane hit the diesel engines....OMFG did you read that story? Holy sh*t batman that was chilling...

Since we jail thousands of people in this country every day for things like unpaid traffic tickets and smoking weed, surely we can find some jail space for the executives responsible for this mess. And I don't think we should put these assholes in some cushy Club Fed prison either: put 'em in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. When some of the other assholes running oil companies see their colleagues from BP, Halliburton, and Transocean out on a work detail in the fields for 10 or 15 years, I can gaurantee you that something like this has no chance of ever happening again.

cmb53208: Since we jail thousands of people in this country every day for things like unpaid traffic tickets and smoking weed, surely we can find some jail space for the executives responsible for this mess. And I don't think we should put these assholes in some cushy Club Fed prison either: put 'em in the Louisiana State Penitentiary at Angola. When some of the other assholes running oil companies see their colleagues from BP, Halliburton, and Transocean out on a work detail in the fields for 10 or 15 years, I can gaurantee you that something like this has no chance of ever happening again.

THIS

lacydog: Wind Turbine Syndrome

I had genuinely never heard of that one, and had to look it up. Jesus tap-dancing Christ. That's powerdumb. That's like claiming the 120Hz hum from fluorescent lights will give you cancer.

Congradulations BP executives!

You have just been fined the entire united states national debt!

If you don't stop this shiat by next week, you'll pay off every single mortgage in the country too.

Then we will dip you in crude oil, and set you ablaze in a controlled burn to prevent greater environmental damage.

I love how my friends at BP keep saying, "There are hundreds of people trying to fix this. Really good people. Don't you worry." I finally told one of them to fark off. This shiat is ridiculous. It's horrible. I doubt BP will have anything happen to them. Sheer bullshiat!

"I would peg it at around 20,000 to 100,000 barrels per day," he says.

um... that's not "pegging"

but yeah

it's not like environmentalists have been trying to explain for years that oil is bad. no, no, we're just a bunch of hippies who hate America and crap.

Dinkbreath: 1-2-3-4-5...6-7-8-9-10...11-12. 12!!! Doo-doo do-do...

"We're all gonna die."

dangit, thats in my head now...