The Official Unlimited Oil Spill Thread!

[Triple Zero]

as soon as I get them to lower our prices to be more like yours, I'll start bugging them to make it even lower than that, ok?

[Pope Pixie Pickle]

Lowering fuel prices won't prevent this from happening again. The only way to get habits to change is to stop using so much fucking oil, and people are the consumers and are part of the problem.

So, Dear America,

Your cars are too big, too inefficient and now you make a lot of noise about an oil spill off your coastline at prices that are frankly unsustainable.

Are you really surprised that they cut corners, or that the regulations aren't stringent enough, your cities are designed around the car, public transport in most places is particularly shitty but still you don't change your behaviours as consumers.

When all the oil runs out the technology to replace it will be incomplete and long overdue.

Imma stop now before I get pissy about Dubya thumbing his nose at Kyoto and the commitment to lower carbon emissions, or imma be a big ball of eco hippy rage.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Hey I'm workin on it.
My Yaris (though it still uses gas and oil) doesn't need an oil change but every 5000 miles and it got me 53 miles per gallon from orlando to tampa.

I say, not bad.

[Freeky]

Lowering fuel prices won't prevent this from happening again. The only way to get habits to change is to stop using so much fucking oil, and people are the consumers and are part of the problem.

So, Dear America,

Your cars are too big, too inefficient and now you make a lot of noise about an oil spill off your coastline at prices that are frankly unsustainable.

Are you really surprised that they cut corners, or that the regulations aren't stringent enough, your cities are designed around the car, public transport in most places is particularly shitty but still you don't change your behaviours as consumers.

When all the oil runs out the technology to replace it will be incomplete and long overdue.

Imma stop now before I get pissy about Dubya thumbing his nose at Kyoto and the commitment to lower carbon emissions, or imma be a big ball of eco hippy rage.

I will change my habits just as soon as I'm not poor and can afford to buy one of those fuel efficient science projects vehicles.

Sincerely,
America.

But seriously, those hybrids (at the very least) seem like a good idea, they're just so expensive. ANY new car is expensive, though, from my pov. So I'ma shut up now.

[Remington]

Fucking finally:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/us_and_canada/10246924.stm

A special cap funnelling oil from the Gulf of Mexico spill appears to be having some success, a US Coast Guard official has said.

Admiral Thad Allen said 6,000 barrels of oil were captured in the first 24 hours after the procedure commenced on Thursday.

This represents between a third and a half of the estimated daily leakage since the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded and sank on 20 April, killing 11 workers.

Adm Allen said BP hoped to increase the amount captured in the next few days.

[Jasper]

Still, it's only catching a THIRD of one day of oil leakage.  This has been happening for weeks.

At least something is being done.

Kind of bothers me that they gave the number in barrels of oil, like this is about saving the oil.

[Remington]

Still, it's only catching a THIRD of one day of oil leakage.  This has been happening for weeks.

At least something is being done.

Kind of bothers me that they gave the number in barrels of oil, like this is about saving the oil.

I'm guessing 12,000 barrels are easier to visualize than 1,000,000 gallons.

[Jasper]

I thought a barrel was 55 gallons.

( that would put it at closer to 660,000 gallons...)

Hmm.

[East Coast Hustle]

Oh and I don't know that I can boycott Subway.  Everywhere else on the list is not a problem, but Subway???  Them's some cheap eats for growing teenagers, it's been our "fast food" of choice for years.  It might prove to be impossible for me 

I think they mean don't go to the ones in a Valero or BP station.

why? Subways are all independent franchises. Some dude who owns a few subways paid Valero or BP to allow him to put his sandwich counter in there. He pays them the same amount no matter how much money his Subway makes, so if you boycott Subways in BPs, the only person you're hurting is the guy who owns the Subway. Also, boycotting Costco because some of them offer Citgo gasoline (which as far as I know is Venezuela's state-owned oil company, though BP may have a minority stake in it) is just fucking retarded. Why not just boycott every business owned by anyone who owns a car, it would make more sense than this shit.

[Requia ☣]

They said they now know when the leakage will be halted.

August.   

[Jasper]

What.

[Suu]

They said they now know when the leakage will be halted.

August.   

They've been saying this for a few weeks now.

May as well just start calling it the Gulf Station of Mexico, because that's all it's going to be in 2 more months.

[Remington]

Some positive news:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704002104575290113945918450.html?mod=WSJ_hpp_MIDDLENexttoWhatsNewsForth

BP Cap Collects 10,500 Barrels a Day

BP PLC said Sunday that a containment cap placed on its ruptured oil well a mile deep in the Gulf of Mexico collected 10,500 barrels of oil Saturday, marking a success after a string of failures in reducing the oil contaminating the Gulf.

Workers remove oil globs that washed up on Pensacola Beach in Florida on Sunday. Across the border in Alabama, local leaders threatened to jail a BP official on Saturday.

The company, which has been castigated by federal and local officials for its inability to halt the leaking crude, said it hoped to increase the amount of oil funneled to the surface in the next few days. The amount captured Saturday was up from about 6,000 barrels on Friday.

Scientists led by the U.S. Geological Survey have estimated 12,000 to 19,000 barrels of oil a day, at a minimum, were gushing into the Gulf.

[Sir Squid Diddimus]

Oh goody. 

[Remington]

http://af.reuters.com/article/energyOilNews/idAFN0722444920100608

WASHINGTON June 7 (Reuters) - In his angriest words yet after being widely criticized for his response to the Gulf oil spill, U.S. President Barack Obama on Monday said he was talking to experts because he wants to know "whose ass to kick."

"I don't sit around just talking to experts because this is a college seminar. We talk to these folks because they potentially have the best answer so I know whose ass to kick," Obama said in an NBC News' "Today" interview airing on Tuesday.

I am coming for you, Hayward you son of a bitch. I will fucking end you.
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