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*DGthe3* · 06-16-2010, 11:38 PM

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Originally Posted by Muscle Master

why not extract the drill and bomb the oil well shut?

There is a very small market for radioactive shrimp ...

Muscle Master · 06-16-2010, 11:41 PM

It ain't got to be nuclear... is the well that big?

Just seal the top of..

a_Username · 06-16-2010, 11:46 PM

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Originally Posted by DGthe3

I was referring to the supply and demand effect on price. If the US imports more, there is less for everyone else. Therefore, everyone's price goes up.

Most countries who export oil also import it. Its a really screwy system. About the only way to control your own oil would be to have a nationalized system. Otherwise, you pretty much need to play according to the strange rules of the global market.

Not necessarily but most likely. The government/BP can choose to eat the price difference to save some PR face.

*DGthe3* · 06-16-2010, 11:50 PM

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Originally Posted by Muscle Master

It ain't got to be nuclear... is the well that big?

Just seal the top of..

conventional explosives are better suited for making holes, not sealing them.

PQ · 06-16-2010, 11:53 PM

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Originally Posted by DGthe3

conventional explosives are better suited for making holes, not sealing them.

So bomb all sides of it?

I'm from the 'Get a bigger hammer' school. lol

2ndgenz28 · 06-17-2010, 12:04 AM

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Originally Posted by PQ

I'm from the 'Get a bigger hammer' school. lol

My thought, if that hat was big enough, a big 6-8ft round pipe, lots of the side wings then pile on the weight and junk, shiploads of hydrolic cement, and then once there is no way it can lift it off, start scaling down the pipe dia.

2001ragtop · 06-22-2010, 09:15 PM

hope they fix the leak soon.

drivingincamaro · 06-22-2010, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mickss

Do as I say, not as I do!

Brokinarrow · 06-23-2010, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by CajunCamaroChic

You are very correct. We tried to continue with shallow water drilling as this type of accident could have been fixed fairly quickly with minimal impact. Yeah, I should have known better than to respond to the guy, just very passionate and touchy about it right now.

Understandable given the circumstances.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Muscle Master

why not extract the drill and bomb the oil well shut?

Don't quote me on this, but I thought I had read somewhere that one of the main reasons they can't stop this leak is because if they plug the main hole, oil starts leaking out further down the well somewhere (think of a leaky garden hose). So they are worried if they bombed it the oil reserves underneath would just get busted wide open instead of the well collapsing on itself.

2001ragtop · 06-24-2010, 10:22 AM

If you do enough research you will find out that the leak is something called an Asphalt spewing volcano. This is why all you find are tar-balls on the beach and the fluid is brown mud. a small hole deliberately made in the side of a natural occuring volcano. it's harmless. This will be over when they turn the valve knob to the "off" position.

The only thing to be concerned about is dispersant Corexit 9580. This stuff almost killed a bunch of fishermen.

Chrisrp454 · 06-24-2010, 10:33 AM

Than you better get rid of all the computers/iphones and such that you have.
Most plastics are petroleum-based so let me see you get away from it?

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Originally Posted by speedy_g

ALL I KNOW IS THIS SUCKS ! AND FU*K B P I WON'T GET GAS FROM THEM ANYMORE !

JEFF2010SSMANUAL · 06-24-2010, 10:50 AM

This POOR EARTH is being POLLUTED from EVERY direction.

Its only a matter of time before the EARTH MUST get rid of

Humans in order to survive.

RedJewel2SS · 06-24-2010, 11:00 AM

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Originally Posted by Chrisrp454

Than you better get rid of all the computers/iphones and such that you have.
Most plastics are petroleum-based so let me see you get away from it?

and your night at the roxberry polyester shirts, and the paint on your cars and house, and the oil in your car, and your wax, and your tires, and your shampoo, and your explosives...

Steve Dallas · 06-24-2010, 11:32 AM

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Originally Posted by Chrisrp454

Than you better get rid of all the computers/iphones and such that you have.
Most plastics are petroleum-based so let me see you get away from it?

Also, gas is fungible...meaning that you're buying BP oil even if you go to Shell or any other place.

06-22-2010, 09:15 PM	#49
2001ragtop Drives: V8 american car Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Dallas, Tx Posts: 1,417	hope they fix the leak soon. Last edited by 2001ragtop; 06-22-2010 at 09:35 PM.

06-24-2010, 10:22 AM	#52
2001ragtop Drives: V8 american car Join Date: Aug 2006 Location: Dallas, Tx Posts: 1,417	If you do enough research you will find out that the leak is something called an Asphalt spewing volcano. This is why all you find are tar-balls on the beach and the fluid is brown mud. a small hole deliberately made in the side of a natural occuring volcano. it's harmless. This will be over when they turn the valve knob to the "off" position. The only thing to be concerned about is dispersant Corexit 9580. This stuff almost killed a bunch of fishermen. Last edited by 2001ragtop; 06-24-2010 at 10:44 AM.

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