tranquility;2593013]I'm a smart guy. (A legend in my own mind.) I've read a lot on this issue and what has happened as it seems up with the greatest insults humans have imposed on the Earth.
Not hardly. It is great and severe but there are many other events as or more egregious as this one. Just the amount of crap we pump into the waterways of the world continually exceeds the oil spill in overall impact from what I can see. Once this settles down, the impact will be largely aesthetic or affecting mainly the tourist industry of the affected states. The overall environmental impact will pass. The Earth is durable. It is we that are so fragile.
I even had some science classes in college! (Let's talk string theory sometime.)
I ascribe to the Silly String theory. Not quite as high strung as the more basic String theorists.
Yet, the issues involved are so beyond my understanding that I can't really express an opinion . BP was doing magic stuff. Going to the moon, sap tumors in the brain from different angles without hurting surrounding tissue, magic things. Good luck on determining if there was a problem or not.
there were problems, many already admitted. As I stated previously, the blow out preventer has already been reported to being made effectively non-functional due to BP. The sole purpose of the blow out preventer is to crimp the drill pipe if there is a situation where there would be a massive leak (like we currently have). Part of the problem is reported that BP did something to the preventer that made it ineffective plus there is debate as to a preventer even being effective for what it is designed to do. It's not something that gets tested in a real life scenario.
If that one device worked as designed and planned, there basically would be no leak yet here we are with who knows how many barrels of oil continually spewing from the well.
there are also reports of faulty mudding or cementing of the well casing. This is reported to have caused problems as well.
Let me grab a moment from my glimpse of the FA crystal ball which I saw in my visions when challenged by others. This commission will determine that such drilling is always a problem and we should never do it. They will also determine drilling closer to land should continue to be prohibited for some reason. Finally, it will all be our fault and that we should limit our addiction to oil.
So it has been visioned. So it will be done.
(Didn't need any science or anything. Just a knowledge of politics and a certain cynicism of the current administration.)
that has been argued for by the environmentalists for years, unsuccessfully.
What I would like to see is all of the environmentalists that bitch about the problems involved with oil production stop using oil and the products derived from it. Maybe if those people would stop using oil, the rest of us would be able to get by on American oil rather than having to buy the greater percentage of our oil from politically unstable countries.
Oil will not go away. Our infrastructure is too dependent on oil. It will not become a thing of the past until we have a replacement. We will not develop a replacement until it is either used up or so prohibitively expensive to acquire that the replacement will be less expensive.
As it stands, we are decades from having a practical replacement; Possibly many decades. It is a catch 22: As long as we have oil as a relatively inexpensive means of producing energy and the thousands of materials that are derived from crude oil, we will not adequately fund the research needed to replace oil. Until we fund research for alternate sources of energy and materials (a hugely ignored aspect of the oil industry when speaking of replacing oil), we will be relegated to being dependent on crude oil.
and always remember: those oh so smart people putting people and craft on the moon and other planets made a simple error of not converting metric measurements to US standard measurements and as such, crashed a vehicle into Mars. Millions of dollars down the drain.
