Could BP Have Done Something Right With Gulf Coast Oil Leak?

This answer doesn't really seem to relate to the posed 'yes or no' question, but it is true of me.

Their reputation is trashed, and thought it CAN be repaired, I don't see it happening soon. Not that I particularly care about the company.

As for the leak itself, I want to say 'yes' but the realist in me knows this band-aid could easily be temporary.

Hopefully it stays oil leak free

probably the easiest way to completely clean up this mess would be to round up millions of ducks and seals and drop them in the gulf. Let them take alittle bit at a time out with them. Just sayin...

The government should keep the moratorium till better regs are in place. When the shuttle exploded they did not keep firing shuttles into space one after the other . They put a moratorium in place till they could assure the public it wouldn't happen in the same way again. Think people!

The BO administration was just read the riot act by a judge that said the moratorium was illegal. I know some think that as long as a democrat is in office, they can wipe their messy butts with the Constitution, but they really can't, but its not from lack of trying.

... Someone should commission Tampax for this, because obviously they don't have any better ideas.

I'm not sure i believe its really the leak that is showing live on the cams. I want NASA proof that the oil is moving out..wait Nasa is owned by the Gov. Are you crazy?

corporate greed always wins

Let's have BP tarred and feathered publicly, so they can feel the pain they've inflicted on the marine life. Well, I don't really want to hurt anyone, but I seriously don't trust BP or their cute little facade. They can get the hell out of this country.

We got plenty of tarballs to melt down for the tar to use in the tar-and-feathering.

LOL! I don't think we should really tar and feather them- but a rotten egg might do the trick.

"Nearly 1,500 gallons have leaked into the Gulf daily"? Could you please correct your figure?

the reason they took so long was to think of a way to "fix the leak" while being able to continue to harvest oil, having it connected to surface ships to "relieve pressure" is a convenient excuse to keep using that hole so they don't have to drill another well, bet it took 87 days cuz they were engineering the cover to allow access to the hole after being sealed. that hole could have been plugged in less than a week but we let bp handle it, now the coast pays for it

the dumb asses let the stupid rig fall into a state of such disrepair that the damn thing exploded! do you think they fixed the leaking well? I don't.

I fundamentally don't trust bp. They should not have been drilling underwater when they had no effect plan in place to deal with a spill. They completely blew off safety standards, including evidence that one of the rubber gaskets(blowout protectors?) had come apart rather than delay to fix the damn thing and avoid this whole disaster in the first place. They have ignored the toxic effects of their oil and dispersion material on cleanup workers. And we still have no idea what the impact of this spill is going to be - it's entirely possible that the underwater oil could get into the gulf stream. Maybe it could get into the grand banks fishing area. Maybe it could go to europe.

This cap may well work. BP has an interest in lowballing the amount of the spill (since we don't really know how much is was) as this will mitigate their fine. I think it was a lot more than 1500 gallons a day. But bp is out for bp, and I think we are fooling ourselves if we think they give a crap about anything but their bottom line.

It would’ve cost them $500,000 to implement the safety measures that would’ve prevented this. They didn’t want to spend it, despite making hundreds of billions in profits annually.

What with 20/20 hindsight, I’d be willing to bet that that ½ a mil. is looking like it would’ve been a really good investment to them right about now….

I expect they are. And I expect they aren't going to learn a thing from this. They are just going to keep on keeping on.

BP always performed throughout the entire crisis by keeping an eye on the solution while the government and agencies interfered and retarded the progress. It is clear that if we had deployed the international help of skimmers 95% of the resulting damage on the coasts and to the Eco -System would have been avoided. The 5,000 Barrel a day skimmers from Netherlands, Belgium, Saudi, etc. have cleaned up the major spills in the Indian Ocean and the Saudi Sea. What we had here was unskilled politicans in the agencies and administration using the accident to create a crisis for policy reasons. It is time that the heads of the government and agencies by suit for compensating damages using their personal wealth. This was not negligence of ignornance but rather planned negligence to use proven solutions to mitigate the damage. Thank God go BP staying the course and working with all the handicaps put on them by this unskilled, corrupt and incompetent government.

This should give pause to all the Eco-Nuts who think they know the first thing about oil extraction and decided that they should give orders to move oil rigs to deep sea drilling while they drive to and from work and chauffeur their kids to soccer games in their mini vans. Drilling on land is safer and less expensive and always has been. I'm not a Tree Hugger but I am an Animal Lover and you Eco-Nut Greenies have the blood from the deaths of all those animals on your hands.

Next time stay out of the business of Capitalists who know what their doing.

You stated the point I was prepared to give. Government regulations made the oil rigs move out further and further into deeper water where it became harder to control accidents like this.

At the same time the liberals have fought against drilling in desolate areas of Alaska where there is much oil and is easier to correct accidents. I am in South Texas and sick about the destruction this has done to the gulf waters, sealife and wildlife.

Lol, we could probably add a few lobes to that - I won't mention 'names' though!

LOL or nodes at least.

Or maybe 'lodes' - as in the 'mothah' lode. Snicker...

Bahahahaha

And we'll let Congressman Barton apologize to BP for the mean things I'm about to say about them.

They are a load of crooks. Just as bad as the US government, except for the fact that "technically" the US government supposedly only has power in the US. BP has power all over the world. Tony Hayward said he wanted his life back. Oh boo frickin hoo. You have to deal with bad publicity for a while because your company messed up BIG TIME. How about those people who died on the well? When are THEY going to get their lives back? Never? Oh, what was that? They were just workers? Get the fu*k over yourself you little baby. If the shareholders give you the boot, it will be the best thing BP has done this year. They have rejected ANY of the proposals to clean up the oil if it would render it useless to be sold, which means one simple thing. They don't give two s*its about the Gulf Coast. They simply care about their bottom line. Well guess what? I didn't buy your gasoline before because it was the most expensive stuff on the market, and I sure as hell will not buy it now. What's to make me trust that you aren't going to tamper with the product just to make more money?

No, its just a band - aide fix.

or the Obama Administration ...

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I have many comments on BP, most are too inappropriate to post here.

I as well

I find it interesting that when obama put the screws to them BP found the way to cap the well.

Good job Obama!

Good Job Obama, are you FN kidding me!

You all complained Obama wasn't doing anything about the spill so he hit BP with a major lawsuit and monetary payout and they figured out a way to stop the oil flow.

Now you want to hate Obama why ?

They hate him because they watch Fox "News" religiously and believe the propaganda they spew, and it is all hate.

Fox news is the only place to remotely find the truth janet.... sorry

Matter fact i find more truth in the fricken enquire and pravda then I do in the rest of America's media. They are crawled so far up the lefts ass the couldn't see the truth even if they had the ocean give them an enima!

That is why you do not know the real truth, fox all ways has to tell you how you should think about a story and they input their own slant on everything, they also report down right lies and since so many right wing people take it as gospel we now have a huge divide in the American people. Divide and conquer.

Now I want to hate Obama......., nope long before the idiot did nothing here. Obama picking on BP was a show, they are his buddy's and the biggest oil contributor to his campaign!

Good job, He did NOTHING