>>>>>>>>(the title is for Jake since he claims they are our friends)..
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>>>>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/06/04/gulf.oil.spill/index.html?hpt=T1
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>>>>>>>>So BP is still trying to cap the well?
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>>>>>>>>They haven't tried yet - they only have been trying to find a way to keep oil flowing to their refineries.
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>>>>>>>>If they were serious, they would have used the Soviet/Russian method to cap a well - an in-ground explosion near the wellhead will shift the floor and close it permanently. Of course, they won't get to keep siphoning off oil to sell.
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>>>>>>>>Meanwhile, the damage in the gulf will be catastrophic.
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>>>>>>>So cynical. The damage already is catastrophic, but I believe they are doing everything they can to end it. You try to contain a huge underwater oil spill. BP has already lost $75 billion in market value since this started. I am not helping because I plan not to fuel up at BP/Amoco stations again, this being far from their first safety problem, but I do believe there are good people doing everything they can to fix it.
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>>>>>>http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0504/russian-paper-suggests-nuclear-explosion-cut-gulf-oil-geyser/
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>>>>>>I agree with their idea. Whether a nuclear device (gee - it might damage the environment) or US bunker buster-like devices, shifting the sea floor would close this completely.
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>>>>>Frankly that sounds crackpot. Disrupting the environment more brings tranquility? I thought the challenge was to contain the oil. You were probably joking.
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>>>>They can not contain the oil.
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>>>>They have needed to STOP THE FLOW since this started.
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>>>>So far, BP is only trying to find ways to pump the oil into production.
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>>>What was the 'top kill' attempt meant to achieve ?
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>>I think top kill was an attempt to keep the press busy with a buzzword.
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>Oh. That explains that then. Silly really - advocating the nuclear option would have kept the press a lot busier.....

The press will be plenty busy as the sludge rolls onto the Gulf Coast, Central American, and Cuban beaches and kills off the tourism and fishing industries that are the livelihoods of millions of people and are worth hundreds of billions of dollars/year.