News ticker on TV this morning said that it could be as late as August before any headway is made on capping the damn thing. What was the estimate, around 2 million gallons of oil leaking out per day? That'll be around 180 million gallons by then, on top of what's already floating around out there.
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Originally Posted by mookiemookie
I think they should be booted out of the country.
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Wouldn't do any good. They'd pollute someone else's shores. Hell, on the other hand, exile them to the Persian Gulf. Let 'em stink up Iran's shores for a few years and give those bastards a real reason to hate Western culture.
If anything, at least the industry will learn from this experience how to cap a blown pipe in deep waters. It's obvious that they had no contigency plan to cover "what if the blowout preventer fails?". Who would have suspected that it would happen?
