Comments on: No Improvement

By: Bryan

Bryan — Fri, 09 Jul 2010 03:37:55 +0000

Hell, if a decent booming and skimming plan had been put in place immediately, the only problems would have been the Gulf beaches, but BP is still bitching about the money people are spending to close the passes to the Gulf, so there is no oil in the bays and bayous.

As long as BP’s story was no more that 5,000 barrels/day, they were going to mount a major response, because it wouldn’t be necessary for that flow rate.

They have botched this job from the beginning. If you keep the oil on the sand, you can clean the sand with soap and hot water, and return it to the beach, but you can’t do that with wetlands.

By: Badtux

Badtux — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 23:47:16 +0000

Yeah, cleaning the beaches when there’s dinner-plate-sized clumps of oil washing ashore and more of’em out there in the surf as far as the eye can see sure seems an exercise in futility. But if booms and such could keep the oil out of the estuaries, that would definitely be useful.

In other news — today the Obama administration successfully obtained a guilty plea from Osama bin Laden’s chef for the crime of providing bin Laden with Compote of Mass Destruction. Don’t you feel safe now? And we finally found out why the FBI rounded up the Russian spies who, err, never did any spying… turns out they want to trade these spies for some actual genuine certified U.S. spies the Russians have in jail. Shades of the cold war!

And some people wonder why I’m cynical…

– Badtux the Cynical Penguin

By: paintedjaguar

paintedjaguar — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 18:19:45 +0000

People keep talking about “The Cleanup”. What does that even mean as long as there is still an uncapped gusher out in the Gulf? I don’t mean to say that palliative measures are useless or to denigrate the sincere efforts of many people, but a lot of what’s been going on looks to be merely cosmetic, or even counterproductive. Maybe I’m cynical, but lately every time someone says “Cleanup”, I hear “Public Option”.