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Why get involved in it when its BP who is responsible to use every resource they have to get this leak stopped.
No one in the world knows how to stop this leak.
To critisize for not cleaing up the marshs right now is ludicrous. You dont clean something up until the leak is stopped.
Its called throwing good money after bad.
Scotty... what we don't know is how much "behind the scenes" involvement Obama's had with the disaster in the Gulf. But on appearances, it sure seems like it's "business as usual" with Obama and there doesn't seem to be the sense of urgency I would expect for a disaster of this magnitude.
The Gulf of Mexico is NOT the property of British Petroleum. Fuck Lamar McKay and fuck British Petroleum!!! The callousness and arrogance they've displayed not only with this disaster but throughout their history is all anyone needs to know about that company.
Every time I see a car pull into a BP gas station, I ask myself "Are these people completely oblivious to what's going on in the Gulf?". How can they patronize a company that's effectively turned the Gulf of Mexico into a toxic soup of crude oil and dispersants for who knows how long? Decades? Centuries? No one knows how big this disaster's going to be economically or geographically and how long it's impacts will last. All because BP decided doing the right thing and drilling a relief well was "too expensive" (i.e. it would have cut into their profits).
It's been more than 5 weeks!!! Obama should have been on Gulf coast the first week and every week since, using the power of his office not only to put pressure on BP but to gather every possible resource this and other countries have to deal with this disaster. Again, we don't know how involved Obama's been behind the scenes but one visit in 5 weeks? He attended a fundraiser in San Francisco the other day. Is that really more important than what's going on in the Gulf? Really?
I'm not sure Obama gets it yet. He keeps referring to it as the "spill" in the Gulf. It's not a freaking spill! It's an oil reserve that's dumping (if you believe BP) 5000 barrels of crude oil into the Gulf every day. Other estimates range as high as 70 - 80,000 barrels per day. Let's assume it's somewhere in the middle... say, 40,000 barrels per day. This is day# 38. That means more than 1.5 million barrels have already dumped into the Gulf!
It's expected to take about 90 days to drill a relief well, so if we add that to the oil that's already dumped into the Gulf, that brings us to more than 5 million barrels. We all remember what a mess the Exxon Valdez made of the Alaskan coast. The Exxon Valdez leaked 271,000 barrels of oil. So that means the oil slick in the Gulf could by the time it's capped be almost 20 times the size of the Exxon Valdez spill. That could devastate the entire Gulf coast for decades.
If nothing else, Obama's presence on the Gulf coast would give the impression he considers this disaster priority 1 and he's doing everything within his power. I know he's visiting the region again tomorrow. It's about damn time.
Sorry about the rant. I just want to see Obama stop joking about this at press dinners and fundraisers and take it seriously.
Trench
