Sunday, June 13, 2010

How it used to be


BP in the United States used to be mostly "AMOCO" (ie Standard Oil of Indiana). The latter had the good sense to generally fuck up and create needless environmental disasters off the coast of France instead of off the coast of the U.S.

You'd think a British company would be able to keep up that not-so-noble tradition, but NOOOOOOO!

29 comments:

StonyPillow said...

Here comes the fun.

Texas, Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, Florida -- you earned this. Enjoy.

sukabi said...

looks like things are going to get exponentially worse in the next week or so... not going to be much BP's going to be able to do to hide dead, oiled fish and birds after they end up 2 miles inland in peoples' yards...

and we're going to find out sooner rather than later just how toxic that corexit shit they've been dumping in the Gulf is when applied to crops...

pansypoo said...

on the bright side, how many teabaggers and republikkkans learn something about their leaders.

yeah right. impenetrable stupid.

Expat said...

A commentator over at Agonist, Joaquin, found this at The Oil Drum. If half accurate, the disaster arn't nothin' yet.

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593#comment-648967

This is all the things you are not being told.

sukabi said...

it seems BP has acknowledged that there is damage below the sea floor, so the "worst case" scenario Expat linked to above is well worth a read just to prepare yourselves on what is going to be a nightmare future for the Gulf and the rest of us...

Expat said...

Notable tanker spill incidents in Europe

1967 TORREY CANYON Scilly Islands 38 mil gal.

1978 AMOCO CADIZ Britany France 68 mil gal.

1999 ERIKA Britany France 3 mil gal.

2002 PRESTIGE Atlantic off Spain 20 mil gal.
(sank with most on board, still leaking)

All these were disasters, but to compare if Gulf well is producing 100,000 barrels a day that is 4,200,000 IMPERIAL gallons A DAY. That is 5,000,000 (five million) U.S. gallons a day. and it promises to get even greater as time passes.

To date, more oil has spilled into the Gulf of Mexico than ALL the above disasters combined.

StonyPillow said...

Thanks, Expat. My browser didn't zero in on the right place (FYIE), so search for dougr comment June 13, 2010 - 3:17am. If his worst fears are realized, we are well and truly f*cked. As another commenter said about his post,

If what you are describing is even close to reality then we might be in for 5-10 years of oil flow at say 200,000 barrels a day. That'd ... well, no point going further.

Which would also explain why people are selling BP stock.

Mr. Blue said...

"on the bright side, how many teabaggers and republikkkans learn something about their leaders."

I thought though that Obama was going to clean this up? I thought the government was going to step up and take charge and fix this. Seems to me all they seem to be able to do is point fingers.

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