Administration Needs To get in Front of the OIL CATASTROPHE TODAY BIG TIME!!

[winstars]

NO BUSH DITHERING, ROCK OUT TODAY (THURSDAY) WITH ALL DEPARTMENTS EVERYWHERE ON THE TEEVEE... THIS IS GONNA BE A BFD!!!!

Let's do this for all the animals and for showing the pugs how Government can work, although I think BP has really screwed the pooch so to speak and nothing with really help...

[ashling]

1. Are you refering to another spill?

link?

[winstars]

2. No, The Same One My Friend

It's now being reported that it is spewing oil 5X as fast as they said yesterday. 200,000 gallons per day. (and that is a real guess. And remember, at first they said it was not leaking at all...

So now they say it is leaking much, much more. Don't get hung up on the burning oil stories, slicks the size of various states, the REAL story is that that leak is 5,000 feet below the surface and the methods of shutting it down ARE NOT WORKING. It seems to me that the blow off thingy that the SIX ROBOTIC SUBS have not been able to get to work is not going to work!!! Maybe because they are trying real difficult things 5,000 feet below the surface might have something to do with it!!! The next thing to try is to build a DOME over it and divert the oil up like a funnel, WTF!!! And lastly, the drill crosswise into the "leaker" to relieve the pressure, oh, that will only take two months or so.

This could/is gonna be a REALLY BIG FUCKING DEAL real fast and I just want OUR SIDE to not move slow. BP is a fucking oil company, we let them have a few days and they have failed. Already there are stories of local fisherman offering to help in ANY WAY they can. We CANNOT have people saying be have acted too sluggish in what might be a HUGE DIsaster. Forget Bank Reform, Forget Arizona, this could wipe all that away by Friday or Saturday and the faster OUR GUYS start calling the shots the better it will be for our environment and for the political fortunes of our side over here at DU...

[babylonsister]

3. Do you have any suggestions on what can be done? The CG

has a hazmat division, and they came up with burning the oil off. I agree, doesn't sound great for a host of reasons.
But what can they do? I keep thinking of the Alaska spill; I don't have a clue how to contain something like this, or how to spare the wildlife.

[Sherman A1]

4. Agreed

I think that everything that is humanly possible to do, is in fact being done right now. The future of off shore drilling is perhaps best left to discussion another day and this accident should indeed be part of that discussion, but I for one am proud of the folks out there on the water doing their level best to try to contain and fix this mess. I don't know what else can be done, perhaps a few more assets deployed but there is a point where people and things start to get in each other's way and there may not be that many more to send in any event.

[ensho]

5. agree, I phoned the Key West Mayor's office this a.m. and asked

what they were planning what to do when the currents, wind turn south and could bring the oil here.

apparently they haven't even talked about it.

[Captain Hilts]

6. I lived on Trumbo Point. nt

[ensho]

10. I've been up in there a number of times. once with a boyfriend who was

working on a navy ship that had been rented out to a private oil company. that's when I first learned the navy rented out their ships.

they built a large box like room on deck and the scientest, etc. with all the equipement with a.c. going, sat in while the ship did a grid up and down and across the Gulf. pinging for oil. they would be out about 10 days then go ashore by Houma, La. for a number of days and then back out again.

I have a video he took of 4 and 5 waterspouts going in the Gulf at one time. really neat scene.

[Kdillard]

7. Yes he does. I read that they are accepting military help due to changing conditions.

I would like for him to reconsider allowing the offshore drilling due to this also.

[BlooInBloo]

9. Which, of course, he is.

[Kdillard]

11. That is good where did you hear or read he was reconsidering.

[MadMaddie]

8. They are - Napolitano and others are going down there today.

This is something important to remember

Until the governer of impacted state declares a "State of Emergency", the governer cannot officially participate in helping.

Bobby Jindall has just today declared a "State of Emergency" and now government help can now proceed.