Americans wait to learn if top kill will stop oil

[Dulcinea]

Source: AP

ROBERT, La. — Two days after BP began a risky effort to stop a gushing oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, company officials said the operation was going as planned but offered few details, leaving the nation in suspense about whether its worst oil spill would end any time soon. BP PLC warned that it could be Sunday or later before the outcome of its bid to plug the well through an effort known as a "top kill" would succeed.

Experts said they could see incremental progress at best from BP's "spillcam" of mud, gas and oil billowing from the seafloor. The hypnotic video has become an Internet sensation as Americans watch and try to fathom whether BP's efforts are working.

Scientists say the images may offer clues to whether BP is getting the upper hand in its struggle to contain the oil, said Tony Wood, director of the National Spill Control School at Texas A&M University in Corpus Christi. If the stuff coming out of the pipe is jet black, it is mostly oil and BP is losing. If it is whitish, it is mostly gas and BP is also losing.

If it is muddy brown, as it was much of Friday, that may be a sign that BP is starting to win, he said. That "may in fact mean that there's mud coming up and mud coming down as well," which is better than oil coming out, Wood said.


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[ixion]

1. gee, lovely attribution in that story... "company officials", "experts"

anything but a name. The only attribution they have is a lackey from Texas A&M.

[DeSwiss]

2. K&R

- Well we do know that they know how to kill things. So far from top to bottom......

[flyarm]

3. and Americans seem willing to believe any pile of shit they deliver to us!

the pile of shit doesn't even need a box or bow!

wake the f up!

BP has destroyed the eco system of the Gulf..it will effect the world and we are made suckers by almost every politican who has greased their pockets with this murder of our water, air , sea life, wild life and our people!

Its all a damn con game and cover up!

It is all about Big big money , power and control of we the people.

And it is on both sides of the aisle!

[marions ghost]

4. because people NEED to believe...

It's more than they are "willing to believe." It's willful blindness.

The idea that the Gulf is destroyed is not acceptable. It is not fathomable. So people will prefer to believe the whitewash. They will soak up anything that insulates them, boom like, from the truth.

I know that BP knows EXACTLY how much oil has come out. I'm sure they can make a very close estimate and they are telling us it is much, much less than it is. From that one Big Lie you can infer that a lot more lies are out there.

The oil comes out, the lies come out. :grr:

[sasquuatch55]

5. flyarm you are right sir!

nt