Gulf Update - Head for the Hills
The Plume Groweth
Monday, June 7, 2010 by DrJBHL | Discussion: WinCustomize Talk
True to Doc's never ending quest for Truth, here's an Update....the kind WC'ers need to remain relevant in this rapidly changing world.
I know you dedicated pixel pushers have little if any time to view news, so this one might just save your lives.
The gusher is spreading and threatening to bury us all alive in....well, read for yourselves, my friends.
This Post is dedicated to my friend Web(doc made me do it)Gizmos who really cares passionately about this topic. Thanks for caring so much, WG.
News
Massive Flow Of Bullshit Continues To Gush From BP Headquarters
June 7, 2010 | ISSUE 46•23
LONDON—As the crisis in the Gulf of Mexico entered its eighth week Wednesday, fears continued to grow that the massive flow of bullshit still gushing from the headquarters of oil giant BP could prove catastrophic if nothing is done to contain it.
The toxic bullshit, which began to spew from the mouths of BP executives shortly after the explosion of the Deepwater Horizon oil rig in April, has completely devastated the Gulf region, delaying cleanup efforts, affecting thousands of jobs, and endangering the lives of all nearby wildlife.
"Everything we can see at the moment suggests that the overall environmental impact of this will be very, very modest," said BP CEO Tony Hayward, letting loose a colossal stream of undiluted bullshit. "The Gulf of Mexico is a very big ocean, and the volume of oil we are putting into it is tiny in relation to the total volume of water."
Hayward's comments fueled fears that the spouting of overwhelmingly thick and slimy bullshit may never subside.
According to sources, the sheer quantity of bullshit pouring out of Hayward is unprecedented, and it has thoroughly drenched the coastlines of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida, with no end in sight.
Though no one knows exactly how much of the dangerous bullshit is currently gushing from BP headquarters, estimates put the number at somewhere between 25,000 and 70,000 words a day.
"We're looking at a truly staggering load of shit here," said Rebecca Palmer, an environmental scientist at the University of Georgia, who claimed that only BP has the ability to stem the flow of bullshit and plug it at its source. "And this is just the beginning—we're only seeing the surface-level bullshit. It could be years before we sift through it all and figure out just how deep this bullshit goes."
Congressional hearings aimed at stopping the bullshit have thus far failed to do so, with officials from BP and its contractors Halliburton and Transocean only adding to the powerful torrents of bullshit by blaming one another for the accident.
Along with the region's wildlife and fragile ecosystem, countless livelihoods have been jeopardized by BP's unchecked flow of corporate shit. Those who depend on fishing or tourism for their income are already feeling the noxious effects of the bullshit firsthand, as out-of-control platitudes begin to reach land and seep ashore.
Dense streams of shit are expected to continue spreading throughout the region and the entire United States.
"This bullshit, it's everywhere," said Louisiana fisherman Doug LaRoux, who lost his house to a tide of government bullshit following Hurricane Katrina. "It reeks. Big buckets of disgusting shit are oozing everywhere you look and I don't know if it's ever going to stop. I feel helpless"
Added LaRoux, "I never thought I'd be the victim of so much bullshit."
Observers have noted that after the Exxon Valdez spill in 1989, corporate bullshit gushed up like a geyser for two decades and didn't wane until the oil company had bullshit its way through an exhaustive process of court appeals that ultimately reduced payouts to victims by 90 percent.
Despite Hayward's denials that BP is at fault for the environmental disaster and his concern that it will result in "illegitimate" American lawsuits, the embattled CEO has still managed to trickle out a few last drips of bullshit sympathy for Gulf Coast residents.
"I'm as devastated as you are by this," Hayward said after a meeting with cleanup crews on Louisiana's Fourchon Beach. "We will clean every last drop up and we will remediate all of the environmental damage."
"There's no one that wants this thing over with more than I do," he added a week later, just absolutely defying belief with the thickest, most dangerous bullshit yet. "I'd like my life back."
Millions of Americans reported feeling ill and disoriented upon contact with that particularly vile plume of bullshit.
Many environmentalists, including Palmer, have called for a boycott of BP until the bullshit stops or is at least under control, but they emphasize that in the long term, Americans will have to change their habits if they wish to avoid future catastrophes.
"We must all work together if we're going to cure our nation of this addiction," Palmer said. "The sad fact is, the United States has been running on bullshit for decades."
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Reply #62 Saturday, June 12, 2010 11:18 PM
Yes it is.
The dividends coming from oil/coal goes into a lot of funds which enable capitalist society to function. No one is going to shoot the cash cow.
Until Government wake up and start looking after the best interest of the people, not corporations, we will never move forward on this. Its our own fault, we have structured society to be depended on economic growth.
I am afraid that alternative fuels will never take off unless a Government throws a lot of money at it.
Reply #63 Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:21 AM
reply 61
The idea of alternative fuels is being suppressed.
Yes it is.
The dividends coming from oil/coal goes into a lot of funds which enable capitalist society to function. No one is going to shoot the cash cow.
Until Government wake up and start looking after the best interest of the people not corporations we will never move forward on this. Its our own fault, we have structured society to be depended on economic growth.
I am afraid that alternative fuels will never take off unless a Government throws a lot of money at it.
Yeah...and it's a crime it's being suppressed. And I don't think the whole world actually wants the oil...we just have it pounded into our heads every chance they get...they being government...that we are dependent on oil. I think people would be quite happy using alternative ways of travel if it was offered. In fact there was one car company...I forgot the name...that actually built I think it was 90 alternative fuel cars that were ready to be sold...and rather than sell them to the public...they actually loaded up these cars and took them to the crusher. And there was a group of people that actually had the money in hand to buy them all plus enough to purchase more...but the car company refused to sell them. There was even a husband/wife team that created a battery that would have provided 300 miles per charge on the batteries that could have been used.
There was even a documentary about all that...and we just love making documentaries about how smart we could be...but never actually follow through with things. We could very well get rid of oil and adopt alternative ways of transportation...but because of apathy it will never happen. People are just to damn lazy to do what it would take to make it happen and unwilling to be inconvenienced in the process. And hey...it's so much easier to just bitch about it and "appear" to care than actually caring enough to do it.
So yeah...it's everyone's fault...whether you drive or not doesn't matter...you use something that has to be driven to your stores and what not.
Reply #64 Sunday, June 13, 2010 2:17 AM
Didn't leave in anger Seth,, just didn't want to wander off into some quasi political world order conversation as compared to a discussion of the actual event at hand.
Reply #65 Sunday, June 13, 2010 7:03 AM
^ Thanks, Ken... I'm made so sad by loss. I value you far too much for anything like that to happen.
I'm not active enough in the causes I believe in to argue with that. However, I do believe things are hidden from general perousal, simply because of laziness, profit motive, etc. Thank G-d that's getting harder to do with info being around and being far more available to those who search.
There's truth in that, but it's getting harder and harder for folks to hide beneficial technologies and alternatives...
There's truth there as well. 
"Never say never."
Good one Chas!Reply #68 Sunday, June 13, 2010 7:56 AM
"....and the Darwin Award for Original Thinking goes to.....BP!"
Sombrero, Top hat..."Tomato Tomahto....Let's Call the whole thing off!"
Time to go electric already! ENOUGH with oil!
Reply #69 Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:19 AM
And with all the exhausted batteries? They go where? And all the recharge stations powered by? Hmmmmm coal fired plants?
Just curious...........
Reply #70 Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:24 AM
I would think there are safe ways to recycle them...these aren't AAA's...they're big boys.
As for powering them? Let's just leave things as they are...that's working out well, isn't it?
In fact, anything we do will have ramifications. We know the status quo isn't good for a number of reasons... I don't think we should sit by idly though. Too many bad outcomes for that....
Nothing will be perfect, but some solutions are less imperfect than the existing toxic mess.
Reply #71 Sunday, June 13, 2010 8:57 AM
Doc, I was just kidding with you. My goodness, we are sensitive this morning !))))))))))))))))))))
Reply #72 Sunday, June 13, 2010 9:26 AM
I hate email for just that reason. How can one tell w/o using our beloved smilies?
If only we could power vehicles with smiles. The world would be much better off.
I've yet to hear of an Operation Sombrero/Top Hat to stem the tide of undersea leaking smilies. 
[more of an 'oldie' smilies person, myself].
Reply #73 Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:16 PM
President Barack Obama wants an independent, third party to administer the escrow account and compensate those with "legitimate" claims for damages, Obama's top political adviser said Sunday. The amount of money set aside will be discussed during talks this week between the White House and BP, but Axelrod said it should be "substantial."
Gulf states also were putting the squeeze on BP. The attorney general in Florida and the state treasurer in Louisiana want BP to put a total of $7.5 billion in escrow accounts to compensate the states and their residents for damages now and in the future.
"At the end of the day, my concern is Louisiana," state treasurer, John Kennedy, told The Associated Press on Saturday. "BP ultimately will do what BP thinks is best for BP."
Reply #74 Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:16 PM
Thanks for the video Chasbo, that was well worth watching. I had seen references to that spill but hadn't gone fishing for the details. This spill is expected to surpass it and therefore earn the title of "Worst Spill Ever". It blew past Exxon Valdez ages ago. Well I suppose if somebody's going to screw up, screw up big.
I really blame the industry more so than BP. BP was just the lucky duck who happened to be holding the bag on this one. The industry has been poking holes in the ocean floor and getting fat like ticks on a deer for all this time without investing in risk management and damage control strategy. You poke enough holes and occasionally one of them is going to go sideways, it's inevitable. Figure out how to deal with it in a timely manner.
Reply #75 Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:18 PM
Gross negligence and willful disregard of safety standards made their luck bad. Not fate.
Reply #76 Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:38 PM
^ That's something I can get behind.
Also...government malfeasance in not inspecting and having meaningful disaster plans for occurrences.
No one expects perfection (nothing is or can be perfect), but not to have ready, proven plans? Unsupportable, indefensible and negligent...criminally negligent.
Reply #77 Sunday, June 13, 2010 12:43 PM
Maybe it was, don't know. Point is, one way or another things screw up occasionally, figure out how to deal with it if you're going to poke the holes.
edit - Ah you snuck in on me there doc.
Reply #79 Sunday, June 13, 2010 7:00 PM
My thoughts exactly. Have the plans in place first, then drill for oil. Can't believe the same technology and techniques from 30 years ago are used today.
Always find it strange how well educated people in Government and Business keep stuffing up, they have to be dragged kicking and screaming to be ready or do anything. Be proactive I say!!!
Expect a fight on tighter regulation of the oil industry to follow. I can see the ads now 
Reply #80 Sunday, June 13, 2010 7:40 PM
Same "fail". Didn't work then, and hasn't worked this time, either. Last time didn't work in 200 ft. of water...why they thought it'd work at a mile depth, who knows....if they thought. I don't think they did.
Doesn't make any sense that no technology has advanced over 30 yrs. All that money and no progress...and probably no R&D either.
Expect some political/gov't. heads to roll also.
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Reply #61 Saturday, June 12, 2010 10:38 PM
The whole world WANTS that oil....so the whole world is responsible for the endangerment of our environment.
Suck it up and kick your/our collective arses for being dependent on dangerous resource technology.
I don't think the whole world WANTS that oil. The whole world WANTS transportation, and the people who are making bank on oil are playing some pretty tough political games to make sure they hold a monopoly on the thing that gives us transportation. The idea of alternative fuels is being suppressed.