I actually AGREE with the oil companies.

Not because I know what I'm talking about, just because it's an unusual stance to take and I wanna seem edgy.

you're so cool, dude

I can't believe you posted a comment here!!!! besterest day efa!

Y'know what else? Obama is WORSE than Bush!

I read HORSE the first time. That made perfect sense too.

no no no, I just learned, that the majority always believes everything the governments and companies say. I've heard this from countless people who are cooler than you, it must be true.
In fact, hardly anyone disagrees with the statement above!!!

I think whatever the SHEEPLE don't.

sheeple, that jamerio offspring?

( http://images.sodahead.com/polls/000823499/po...large.jpeg )

kinda looks like a failed pizza

It even looks smug.

Let me supply some only vaguely related facts to seem like I was on this bandwagon all along.

Yeah, the situations like that are really bad and I personally have always thought the US are retarded for even allowing deep water drilling (note that Ixtoc wasn't Deep Water!).

But some of that is just your typical journalist sensation crap.
Oil barriers are always a good idea when you have oil on the water, even if you only catch 10% it's better than nothing.

Techniques like "Top kills" are absolute standard when it comes to shutting down a well that is out of control. They are mainly used on land, though.

The same with the blowout-preventer failing. They say "what a coincidence that if failed there, too". The only job that thing has is to prevent a blowout, so yeah, if there is a blowout it obviously failed. If it didn't fail there wouldn't be a news ...


To compare this with something more familiar:

An office building that had a sprinkler system is on fire. Both in 1979 and 2010.
Then you get a journalist explaining that the only reason it is burning is that the sprinkler system didn't do it's job in both cases. He also continue that back then they alarmed the fire department which they did again now. The fire department then started to spray water and foam. OMG, DEJA VU!!!
Still they did not manage to save everything in the building. When will they ever learn???


so yeah, I'm all for punishing BP severely for this, so companies really take every measure possible to ensure this won't happen again. And to restrict them from drilling in such extreme conditions until they can really control it. And yes, one should also remember that this is not the first time oil companies have failed.
The most of the comments in that video are just retarded.

You have some good points and agree, but then again if that vid's portrayel of the ixtoc history is true then 9 months is extreme as fuck compared to your example.

You didn't like the weird sarcasm, me neither. Sadly those points are still true, no matter how retarded they were presented

true.
But I also dislike that kind of black/white ciriticism. To those journalists it seems to work like this:
BP fails, therefore everything they do and try is stupid.

See, if BP hadn't tried a Top-kill, no matter the odds, the papers would be full of journalists demanding they try a Top-kill, because they read somewhere it is a procedure that has been used sucessfully on land.

The part with the blow-out preventer is even more stupid.

There is enough shit they can blame BP and the US government for, why do they feel the need to use retarded arguments?
Well, besides not realizing they are retarded...

Updates on my fav tinfoil blogs are saying that

a] the operation trying to plug the hole failed
b] there is another hole 5 miles apart, possibly from previous failed drilling.

Oh and a joke:

Americans finally developed a car that runs on water...

...from the Gulf of Mexico.

[+] for genius joke

since you are not an american, you can go ahead and laugh. according to people watching the live streams, the well just blew out full force and we are getting the worst case scenario of 150k+ barrels leaked per day. there won't be much left of the gulf coast in a couple of weeks.

the equivalent of Exxon Valdez crashing every 2 days

fuck!

Oil volcano! Now the only thing that can save us is nuking it but nuking is exactly the thing every saveface cunt abhors.

live streams :))

yeah there is one on pbs, kinda weird huh

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/horizon-oil-spill.html

LIVE. STREAMS.

lmao xD

good joke

heard it from a mate 2 days ago, been posting it ever since and people still find it new and rofl at it =)

I would like to say that oil is murder, and that oil companies are evil and want your soul.

Not because i particularly know or care, but just to take an unpopular stance on ESR.

I actually have no idea what this is about, but i'm gonna say that oil has several vague philosophical implications relevant to the future.

Pretty much just because that's almost what I thought about yesterday, and I wanted to get it off my mind anyway.

looks like you got brainwashed @ college

I unwrap my thoughts further, naively and without regard for recieving party.

Someone is handing out party? Quick, call Strenx!

Stumped I ruffle out some smileys and go play sc2.

I go take a shit and hope it hurts less than last time.

Alt-text:
To get serious analyses of hurricanes and oil slicks, see Jeff Masters' blog. To get serious discussions of worst-case scenario thinking, see Bruce Schneier's blog. To get enough Vitamin D, don't read any blogs and go outside instead.

You should do this every week, really. Instead of linking to the xkcd article, just post it here including the alt-text.

nah, only if it fits, I trust half the site has seen the comic already, anyways :P

also, I find this link to be quite helpful to ge the alt-text: m.xkcd.com