11 days and 4,000,000 gals of oil!!!! When will it stop? (solution, economic, carry)
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We need to continue drilling for oil over here and stop buying from the middle east! Tap Tap Tap the sea floor baby!
If that one alone spewed 4,000,000 gallons, just imagine how much oil we have off our shores !
It was stupid for them not to have a plan in order about how to deal with a disaster.
We shouldn't drill anymore wells till they can effectively and quickly contain a disaster like this.
Considering that the world consumes 85 million barrels(3.5 billion gallons) of oil per day and 3 billion per year(1.3 trillion gallons!) and is only getting thirstier, that's hardly encouraging. 21 million barrels of that oil is consumed in America(almost 9 hundred million gallons).
Can anyone say WHY they were capping off the oil? Wouldn't they want to pump it out so the price of gas would come down and Americans would be able to rely less on oil from other countries???
Can anyone say WHY they were capping off the oil? Wouldn't they want to pump it out so the price of gas would come down and Americans would be able to rely less on oil from other countries???
Hate to repeat myself but somone must have an answer to the above question.
I can't with any conscience pull up at BP and fill up!
Do you civic duty...talk to the manager of you local BP about how you feel. he IS a local business man......I predict a lot of green will be changing colors. " beyond petroleum" is dead as a slogan.
Can anyone say WHY they were capping off the oil? Wouldn't they want to pump it out so the price of gas would come down and Americans would be able to rely less on oil from other countries???
Hate to repeat myself but somone must have an answer to the above question.
I'm a little confused by your question-- I don't know what you mean by "they" and "capping off the oil"...
Are you talking about OPEC's (former) control over supply and demand and oil prices?
Are you talking about Hubberts Peak or peak oil production?
Are you talking about something to do with BP landing a "cap" or "top hat" (as they call it) on the oil well that blew out?
Can anyone say WHY they were capping off the oil? Wouldn't they want to pump it out so the price of gas would come down and Americans would be able to rely less on oil from other countries???
Hate to repeat myself but somone must have an answer to the above question.
I'll assume you're talking about the attempts to cap the oil leaking (not a strong enough word) from the drilling rig disaster. They have to stop the escape of the crude before they can do anything with the oil, and every attempt to do that so far has failed. So it's just coming out at however many thousands of barrels of crude oil per day, into the Gulf of Mexico.
The only reason this is not an even worse disaster is that runoff from over-fertilized farm land in the midwest has already created a huge dead zone in the Gulf.
I'll assume you're talking about the attempts to cap the oil leaking (not a strong enough word) from the drilling rig disaster. They have to stop the escape of the crude before they can do anything with the oil, and every attempt to do that so far has failed. So it's just coming out at however many thousands of barrels of crude oil per day, into the Gulf of Mexico.
The only reason this is not an even worse disaster is that runoff from over-fertilized farm land in the midwest has already created a huge dead zone in the Gulf.
No, I meant when this rig first discovered oil, as I understood it, instead of pumping it out, they capped it as if they weren't going to use it. (I don't know all the correct terms for each step)....so that's why I was wondering if anyone else knew what the comapny was doing with that rig.
Can anyone say WHY they were capping off the oil? Wouldn't they want to pump it out so the price of gas would come down and Americans would be able to rely less on oil from other countries???
Hate to repeat myself but somone must have an answer to the above question.
They are trying to attach a long straw from where its spewing from and bring it up to storage tanks -
ROBERT, La. — BP hopes to start using a mile-long tube to suck oil from its blown-out well in the Gulf of Mexico by Saturday night after a setback. If successful, the deepsea experiment would reduce but not end a spill that's spewed millions of gallons of crude into the ocean.
The company also began spraying chemical dispersants Saturday beneath the sea, saying it appears to have reduced the amount of surface oil at the site of the well. The spraying is a contentious development because it has never been done underwater.
Technicians have been working since early Friday to insert the tube into an oil pipe a mile beneath the surface using robotic submarines. The tube is intended to suck oil up like a straw to a tanker on the surface, while a stopper surrounding it would keep crude from leaking into the sea.
The effort hit a snag Friday when engineers trying to connect the lengthy tube to framework on the bottom of the ocean couldn't get the two pieces connected, BP chief operating officer Doug Suttles said. The framework had to be brought to the surface to be adjusted.
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