They finally got a siphon on to the oil leak, and though the solution isn't permanent, the flow of oil in to the ocean is going to peter off. It's really a shame that this disaster happened, but in my opinion, it wasn't large enough in scale. Sure, there will be investigations and calls for action, but in the end, nothing significant will change. Obama has come out and said he still supports offshore oil drilling as a viable energy source.
Perhaps if the oil leak had been far more massive, with several leaking rigs and oil showing up on the shores of France or even Japan, we as a people would eventually come to the mutual decision to actually support getting off of oil forever. History shows that the best way to get people to change is to have an event of catastrophic proportions, and this oil spill, for all its' damage, has not been this. We've had worse. Even the first gulf war didn't convince us that an oil based economy is too unstable. I guess Satellite Based Solar Power will have to wait a little longer..
We can never be off oil forever, this would require far too much. For one everyone in the world would have to buy a new car. So, until it runs out oil is here to stay.
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Way to delete my comment again, fucking faggot. And Tidus, shut the fuck up.
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Shinkaru wrote:
Way to delete my comment again, fucking faggot. And Tidus, shut the fuck up. Awe, what's wrong you seem upset about something. Your daddy stopped playing with you since you hit puberty? | |
Yeah, my favorite part is how they used a shitty oil dispersant, rather than one of the 12 better ones the EPA approves.
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While the government is letting BP fail at stopping the oil flow, I think they should put their focus on the massive and inevitable cleanup job right now instead of just sitting back and talking. The oil is our problem. Do -something- for goodness sake. I'm sick of hearing this "we gotta do it right or not at all" crap. Instead of finding some fancy and overpriced solution, just suck the freaken oil up. It's a lot of work, but somebody has to do something.
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Fugsnarf wrote:
While the government is letting BP fail at stopping the oil flow, I think they should put their focus on the massive and inevitable cleanup job right now instead of just sitting back and talking. The oil is our problem. Do -something- for goodness sake. I'm sick of hearing this "we gotta do it right or not at all" crap. Instead of finding some fancy and overpriced solution, just suck the freaken oil up. It's a lot of work, but somebody has to do something. They're actually doing a decent job burning it off, at least if they're still burning it at the rate the were a while ago. | |
I guess Satellite Based Solar Power will have to wait a little longer. But then Celestial Being will come and kick your ass. It's just a lose-lose situation no matter how you look at it. | |
Fugsnarf wrote:
Instead of finding some fancy and overpriced solution, just suck the freaken oil up. It's a lot of work, but somebody has to do something. The oil slick is approximately 2,500 square miles. Dozens of thousands of *barrels* have been leaking for the past 45 days. You can't just "suck it up." | |
Shinkaru wrote:
Way to delete my comment again, fucking faggot. And Tidus, shut the fuck up. No comments were deleted. GhostAnime wrote: Edit: I suppose you were referring to this for the satellite solar power alternative?http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/ japan-wants-power-300000-homes-wireless-power-space Yeah, that's what I'm talking about. | |
Airjoe wrote:
The oil slick is approximately 2,500 square miles. Dozens of thousands of *barrels* have been leaking for the past 45 days. You can't just "suck it up." I'm not really saying that they should actually just suck it up, that statement was serious and sarcastic at the same time in a sense. There's a crap load of oil out there and something needs to be done. They can figure out what that something is, but it should be figured out soon and done soon. | |
Its a tragedy, the things that were done wrong were the lack of any precautions leading up to this, ignoring all sorts of red lights, and not having any plan B's planned before the rig blew up (in Canada and many industrialized nations, there are laws that certain contingency measures be in place, its is forced. In the US it is recommended.)
There are two ways people can learn from this: A) Add new laws, more regulation on safety and prevention are a must at this point. B) Punish BP so much for doing this wrong that the cost/benefit scenario changes in such a way that being careful and safe and having contingency plans will happen through market forces. Regardless, if nothing is done in response to this I will be pissed off. Did you know Exxon still hasnt paid its fees for their big oil spill?! Lord. | |
Masterdan wrote:
Its a tragedy, the things that were done wrong were the lack of any precautions leading up to this, ignoring all sorts of red lights, and not having any plan B's planned before the rig blew up (in Canada and many industrialized nations, there are laws that certain contingency measures be in place, its is forced. In the US it is recommended.) A is definitely feasible, and should be done (Obama has been relaxing certain regulations on deep sea drilling, and I'm pretty sure Bush relaxed a few as well), and as far as B goes, they're kind of screwed over without additional punishment (however, I would make them cover the costs of all the government cleanup etc.). | |
Right now they're too busy spending money on commercials to help with their image which, I'm sorry, can't really be helped right now.
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Jeff8500 wrote:
B) Punish BP so much for doing this wrong that the cost/benefit scenario changes in such a way that being careful and safe and having contingency plans will happen through market forces. BP is the best gas station around here. They have the cheapest gas, cigarettes, and blunts. Punishing them will just hurt the consumers, because they will have to jack up their prices. I think we have one Exxon station in our whole city. We have about 8 BPs though, along with other stations that each have about 3 - 6 franchises here. If BP goes under I will have to pay more for gas, cigarettes, and blunts. Not to mention the people that work at the BPs are cool and usually give me free blunts. At one of the BPs I actually buy bud from the cashier. I mean honestly this could have happened to any oil company, let BP be. No need to punish me and my weed dealer for their mistakes. =( | |
http://www.onlineathens.com/stories/060310/ new_648050170.shtml
Edit: I suppose you were referring to this for the satellite solar power alternative?
http://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2009-09/ japan-wants-power-300000-homes-wireless-power-space