The Official Unlimited Oil Spill Thread!

[Freeky]

Even with all those things right in front of my face, I cannot fathom that kind of money and what it would look like.

[Jasper]

Well, for starters we would have some dessert.

[LMNO]

And I'd be jealous of those fuckers in Idaho with an extra 3 Wolf Moon t-shirt.

[AFK]

I'll throw in a few extra bucks so they can get Sarah Palin on that trip to outer space.  Assuming it is one way.  Also if they install cameras and have a live feed on C-SPAN.  I wanna see the space-madness carnage!

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I am not at all upset that they lost that money.

[Jasper]

The only way I'd feel sorry for BP is if we threw them all in the gulf to plug the hole. 

Lucky them we're domesticated.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

I would not feel sorry for them then either.
I would only feel bad if their children went without food or something.
But they have so much money that that just isn't going to happen.

[Suu]

The only way I'd feel sorry for BP is if we threw them all in the gulf to plug the hole. 

Lucky them we're domesticated.

I wouldn't.

-Suu
Oooga fucking booga. *scratches armpit*

[Adios]

It gets better children. BP is the majority owner of the Alaskan Pipeline.

http://www.adn.com/2009/01/05/643606/pipeline-rate-increase-cases-coming.html

[Adios]

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- In a blow to drivers already struggling with high gasoline prices, BP was forced to shut about 8 percent of the nation's domestic oil production for what seems to be a period of weeks after discovering "unexpectedly severe corrosion" in its pipelines in Alaska.

BP announced early Monday that the pipeline problems had caused it to begin the first shutdown ever in the biggest oilfield in the United States, Alaska's Prudhoe Bay. (Video:BP spokesman comments)
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Part of the pipeline that ruptured in March leading to the worst spill on Alaska's North Slope. BP began shutting down Prudhoe Bay after it discovered a small spill and more than a dozen sections of severe corrosion on other pipelines in its field.
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Oil futures, already near record highs hit in July, shot higher on the announcement, and gasoline futures also rose.

The shutdown could be the tipping point that push gasoline prices to a record high, said Tom Kloza, chief oil analyst at New Jersey-based Oil Price Information Service, noting prices are already close to record levels.

http://money.cnn.com/2006/08/07/news/international/oil_alaska/index.htm?cnn=yes

I love this decade.

[AFK]

It gets better children. BP is the majority owner of the Alaskan Pipeline.

http://www.adn.com/2009/01/05/643606/pipeline-rate-increase-cases-coming.html

At the risk of sounding like a paranoid conspiracy theorist....

Imma gonna guess there are all kinds of mishaps with the Alaskan pipeline that we've never heard about.  Alaska is hella big and I imagine there are huge swaths of it that only oil people see on any kind of regular basis. 

[Jasper]

That's probably true, to an unknown degree.

[Adios]

It gets better children. BP is the majority owner of the Alaskan Pipeline.

http://www.adn.com/2009/01/05/643606/pipeline-rate-increase-cases-coming.html

At the risk of sounding like a paranoid conspiracy theorist....

Imma gonna guess there are all kinds of mishaps with the Alaskan pipeline that we've never heard about.  Alaska is hella big and I imagine there are huge swaths of it that only oil people see on any kind of regular basis. 

OTOH maintenance budgets have been slashed by millions. Sound familiar?

[Iason Ouabache]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/26/AR2010072603042.html

Tony Hayward is about to get his life back. According to multiple news reports, the embattled CEO is expected to step down after the board discusses and approves his exit in a meeting today. One of the biggest questions many will be asking: What took them so long?

The scapegoat has been sent into the wilderness. May the Lord have mercy on our souls!

[Jasper]

Oh poor Tony, retiring to live on savings and stock options.

I hope he chokes on a sewing needle.