Gloom grows as BP's 'top kill' effort fails

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I don't know how they do it but they can separate oil from water the oil pumped from the wells here have water in it.
 

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Somebody told me that the US gov't. doesn't demand oil companies to have something called an acoustic shut off valve while the European countries do. Does anybody know anything about this ?
 

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Somebody told me that the US gov't. doesn't demand oil companies to have something called an acoustic shut off valve while the European countries do. Does anybody know anything about this ?

That was one of the very first things mentioned after this spill occured.
 

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That was one of the very first things mentioned after this spill occured.

So they could have stop the house from burning down before the fire started & you think they can fix this problem now. :sadwave:
 

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British Petroleum (BP) rep Randy Prescott made a comment, "Louisiana isn't the only place that has shrimp." His office number is (713)323-4093 his email is randy.prescott@bp.com. Give him a call or send an email.
 

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Nuclear option off the table in BP spill response


With public frustration of BP's many botched efforts to plug and contain its busted well growing by the day, one idea that drew a lot of initial scorn ? blasting the well shut with nuclear weapons ? had won a bit of traction. The tactic, which the former Soviet Union employed several times to plug natural gas leaks, gained popularity in conservative circles (which are not traditionally all that receptive to Communist policies). Daniel Foster of the National Review writes:


"The simple fact is that the leak has confounded all conventional efforts to quell it, forcing

British Petroleum and its federal overseers to resort to a series of untested, increasingly unwieldy, and heretofore unsuccessful backup plans as the American people's impatience and rage grow at geometric rates. In the madness that is Deepwater Horizon, The Bomb may be the sanest choice. ... If the Deepwater Horizon disaster has rendered the mantra of 'Drill, Baby, Drill,' of limited rhetorical use, it may eventually come time for another plea: Nuke, Baby, Nuke."

But William J. Broad of the New York Times reported Thursday that the Obama administration had ruled out going nuclear on the well. Indeed, he reported, "The nuclear option was not ? and never had been ? on the table, federal officials said.

"'It's crazy,' one senior official said."
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It wouldnt be any crazier than putting a cap on it, putting mud in it, et all.

Nuke it and it opens up the center of the earth and start a volcano action on top of the oil spill


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