Reply #43: Changing Oily Horses In The Middle Of A Stream...

[KharmaTrain]

For all the whiz bang ideas and foot stomping, you are unfortuately spot on...this gusher will continue to flow until a relief well is set to relieve the pressure. Everything else BP, or anyone else, for that matter can do is just a shot in the dark...and even then there's no assurance that a "junk shot" or "top fill" will completely shut down the flow. If there's a saving grace here is that the gusher is in the deep ocean...had it been on the shelf the destruction would have been more widespread. Not good, but you find the little good bits where you can.

This is BP's baby...they cause it, they're on the hook to fix it and then to clean up. I expect the government to become more active in the clean-up as warranted, but the liability is fully BPs and any attempt to "nationalize" them or somehow push them aside gives them an out in having to assume that responsibility. It was telling the other day when the BP CEO walked the oil stained beach...the look of "holy shit" was all over his face. While I would hope it would be about the economic and social impact his company's negligence is having on the local population, but I believe its more about how screwed his company is in trying to weasel out of any liability here.

Again...this situation is three-fold...stopping the gusher (a real clean-up can't begin until the flow is cut back), organize the clean-up, then we'll deal with the blame...criminal and commercial. Just as when you have a flood in your house, you're not worried about whose doing to pay to clean up while you're still waist deep.

There's compelling evidence already of BP's negligence and criminality...time will add more to the bill and the list of charges.

Cheers...