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Spill? What Spill??

The oil story has gotten daily front page attention these past couple weeks. How long do you suppose Americans will continue to be interested? Another week? Till July? The beginning of the new fiscal year?

One of my gentle readers replied, "What oil spill? Did something go wrong on Hell's Kitchen?"

No, no, no, little bumpkin reader .  . . but the spill was just down the street from there at a massage parlor . . . .  Which I think is appropriate since the environment and the economy are getting screwed by the "spill."  

Such a friendly, cute little word, "spill." 


 It would be different if we started referring to the environmental event as  


an act of projectile petrochemical vomiting

a vertiginous eruption of crude

an unslakable spew of hydrocarbons


Now those descriptors would stay in people's heads a bit longer than SPILL      

Thank You, BP

I'd like to express my gratitude to General Stanley McChrystal for providing some packing beans of thought to fill the momentary vacuum created by BP CEO Tony Hayward's disappearance.


Fear not, however, gentle reader . . . BP stepped right up to the plate to hit one for the home team:  one of their little roboto subs bumped the Deepwater well's containment cap requiring that it be taken topside for inspection . . . this time out allows almost the entire gusher load to reach open water once again.  I'm sure those little carbon atoms are ever so grateful for BP's thoughtfulness in freeing them.


You'll be glad to know that the roboto was busy spraying dispersant at the leaking oil when it made contact with the cap--2 birds with one stone:  knock the cap a bit AND break up all the oil so it SINKS down to cover the ecosystem on the Gulf floor and/or glides away in droplets to create some more plumes.  Oh, should add a 3rd bird:  dispersant also brings just a tang of toxicity to the sea water . . . Nice work, BP.

No Comment Necessary: Transocean KNEW About the Leak Beforehand!!!!

BP LIED . . . many DAYS before the well blew up, BP was TOLD there was a leak.  

Deepwater Oil Fields (and Spills) Are a Final Frontier

This article on USAToday's 21 June 2010 online edition is a real eye-opener.

If you think the Deepwater Horizon well is way down there, read about what's already under way . . . 

Although it's not yet been done, one company has equipment that can reach depths of 40,000 feet-->> that's 5,000 feet of water + 35,000 feet of well!

Admiral Thad Allen's Briefing for 21 June 2010 (full transcript)

Read the official transcript of Admiral Thad Allen's daily briefing for 21 June 2010 here.

You can subscribe to the BP Oil Spill mailing list here. This is the official voice of the Deepwater Horizon Unified Command (US government and BP).

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