Oil Spill Wtf?
 

Wow 5000 Barrels a day not plugged up yet. I'm from St. Bernard, the parish just east of New Orleans looks like things will get messy. (the slick is about as big as Deleware or something and getting bigger.) Plaquemines Parish is one of the best fishing places in the world because of the river dumping into the gulf of mexico. Shame :(

5000? :1orglaugh

more like 200,000 per day

Well thats what the news said, 42,000 gallons or 5000 barrels.. I don't know its alot

Drill Baby Drill!

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Obama better reverse his decision to allow more of this shit to go on off of the east coast!

The earth's crust is losing all its lubrication. Prepare for the earthquakes :pimp

I didnt read your post correctly its 200,000 gallons per day they are reporting. Not sure how many barrels that is but it could be 5000 :thumbsup

I have family and friends out there right now are the ones helping control it, and setting it on fire. Their facebook updates this morning were like: "time to go light this oil in the gulf up"

best was "well, time for helicopter ride, about to make some real money today"

St Bernard already had the worst oil spill ever on land after a tank got picked up and shifted after Katrina.. its only fitting that it will be part of the worst water oil spill too. What are the chances?

Yeah lighting it seems like the best option I guess. Could be weeks before they plug the hole? Wtf

funny thing is how BP (BRIT PETROLEUM) acts like its never their fault.

LOL fucking brits, didnt we kick y'all ass in War of 1812 fuckers? Fucing brits, they put us Acadian/French on boats and sent us die in the sea for not swearing to the crown and now they can rape our water?

They shouldnt be allowed to drill here imo. Fuck em, to the grave

I saw that Jindal is trying to score points by having foxnews run a telephone number for volunteers to go "help" with the oil spill.

Do yourselves and the professionals a favor and dont go get in peoples way that are trying to actually work on the oilspill. Donate to fox or jindal if you want, go nuts. But stay the hell away from the actual workers. Sheesh, that guy is like an ambulance chaser.

I hear ya, just to clarify, my family are employed by companies that do this work and are not just volunteers. I have at least 10 cousins down here who work in the oil field. Whether its on the platforms or other things... I agree, let the pros do this.

The reason people are being paid so much to go out there is because its toxic to breathe the fumes and no doubt people out there will have breathing probs when they 60... but setting stuff on fire is fun!

now all they need is a tropical storm to push it all ashore

what's a 'WTF' situation here, is there is X amount of these oil wells everywhere.

This entire emergency was cause by just one oil platform.

I know can't believe it hasn't happened more.

I know someone who's dad worked on a rig there.

I saw some msnbc report earlier this morning about the setting it on fire stuff. She was out there with no mask saying how it was no salty air smell at all. It was all just ths sickly smell of oil and I was thinking, you freaking idiot put on a paper mask then.

Now they're saying that smell is creeping over New Orleans.. nasty..

I heard it will take 2 months to shut the pipe.
Why don't they try it wit a torpedo?

Actually the smell will probably be an improvement :thumbsup

I was just outside and driving around windows down, music loud, didnt smell a thing LOL

but yeah, people really dont learn from things like "all the rescue workers for 9/11 have breathing problems now"

yeah the smell of sun baked booze, piss, vomit, and fried food overwhelms things like burning oil LOL

This isn't the first oil spill and it certainly wont be the last.

The main thing to remember this isnt just a "spill" although it is constantly being called that by the media.

It is a BLOWOUT. Which means the oil will continue for a long time.

http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/20...re-oil-hiatus/

"When you look at well blowouts, they can become the biggest spills of all time. They can run on for months."

This really sucks. Cleaning this up is going to take a long time. Plus the fisherman in the gulf coast will suffer along with the environment:(

Mr. Romance

Deputy Interior Secretary David Hayes said the effort to choke off the leak from a well in 5,000 feet of water may take as long as 90 days.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/201...-update3-.html

if thats the case then most of the gulf coast is fucked.. the only thing that will clean it is a hurricane. :)

Wow thats like a mile down.

Well the other big blowout in the gulf took 9 months. So hopefully it wont be as bad, but yes, its not a good situation.

"The biggest one in the Gulf was the Ixtoc I in 1979. This spill ran from June 1979 to March 1980 (9 months) and released 140 million gallons of oil. By comparison, the Exxon Valdez (only!) released 10.8 million gallons."

Wow thanks for the info.. it'll be interesting to see what happens. Seems like the landscape is alot different when it comes to louisiana.. lots of little marsh islands everywhere ... lots of places for oil to stick. Craziness!

It doesn't look good for Florida either.

Didn't they just sign some law allowing more off shore drilling? Or did Obama just mention he wanted to do that?

I hope this makes Obama reconsider that.

so now instead of a huge lake of oil heading towards the coast we now have a huge lake of oil on fire heading towards the coast? that's better.

Should make for quite a show. :Oh crap

freinds in metro area of new orleans are updating facebook with complaints of the smell. =((((

i dont smell shit though and im right here too

just went outside and really tried to concentrate on smelling it, and i guess i can smell faint odor of something burning but its not making me choke or anything and the sky is pure blue with puffy white clouds everywhere, guess it will get worse... ill keep checkin

I know. Tragic really.

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i hope they can do somthing.

i fear what this will do to the wildlife.

free oil, you would think someone would take advantage of it, given its permitted

Okay there's two threads on this. Good.
They should instate a mandatory death penalty for the CEO of any company who, thru negligence causes an environmental disaster.

Furthermore in this case the punishment should fit the crime, as in covering the mother fucker in oil and setting it on fire.

I cannot express how fucking pissed off i am right now. BP will end up getting a slap of the fucking wrist, pay a huge fine which amounts to nothing and continue their bullshit.

jesus christ, harden the fuck up. It's an oil spill, not a nuclear meltdown. This shit will be done and gone in a year and no one will even remember it happened. fucking drama queens, I swear.

It's possible the oil can be carried by the currents and come around the tip of Florida from the gulf and head up the east coast where the easterly winds will eventually blow it ashore.

I'm thinking the entire state is about to become lubricated :upsidedow

Are you kidding or are you a complete moron?

If you are by chance serious, dummy the fuck up.

We are talking eco system destruction fool, the same eco system that keeps your lame ass alive. It is really amazing how ignorant people can be about their own world.

:1orglaugh nice pic

Are you retarded or something?