how often does something like this happen? (not oil tanker leak but oil rig?)

I hope out of all this people will finally WAKE UP and realize that our oil addicted-way-of-life is wack. Society needs to do everything it can to move towards a post-oil world by seriously investing in public transportation, renewable energies, increasing energy efficiency, increasing population density etc.

+1 for increasing the carbon tax (as long as we get an equal rebate on our income tax)

That's a lot of friggin' oil pouring out into the gulf. Bye bye animals =(

there is no amount of money BP can put forward to fix this problem or even come close

today on the news they said "this spill is now 1/4 the amount of the exxon valdez"

i thought it was already worse than the Valdez like last week?..

:(

In the newspapers and online (such as bbc news) the reports only say about 5000 barrels/day are leaking out. How can this guy be saying more than 200,000 barrels/day? If this guy is right, or at least closer to the actual number, why haven't any of the news companies picked up on it? Especially if BP told the U.S. gov't that a spill of 165,000 barrels/day wouldn't reach the shorelines. How could they possibly say that a 5000 barrel/day spill is reaching shore?

Poor animals that have to live through that oil.

fixed.

:(

FYI, Exxon Valdez only ranks as the 12th largest oil spill.

it's getting worse...

http://www.infrastructurist.com/wp-c...mexicomess.jpg

5000 a day is probably very conservative.
considering bp has hardly released any pictures of the actual leak, its just a figure that they're going by to keep the public happy.
at first they said 1000 a day.. .then it was changed to 5000.
i wouldnt be surprised if it were more like 30-40,000+ but who knows for now.
i think bp is trying to keep the # conservative because they're hoping to solve the prob before the truth has to come out.

damn... poor animals

damn that is simply insane, the ocean is totally polluted

What I don't understand is that when the Exxon Valdez Tanker capsized, it was on the new 24/7 it was media overload, pictures of birds covered in oil, on a daily basis.

This oil leak might be the largest in history, yet the media is barely touching it?

What a strange shift the world has turned in the last decade.

Sad thing is, we're going to get drilled up the nuts for gas prices, even though we dont get oil from the states.

Because oil has not hit the shores and covered animals as hard as like Exxon spill did. It will but it hasn't yet.

We are all to blame for this. If you do anything which requires oil (basically everything) then you are part to blame... I say "you" loosely though because I have a car and etc as well.

And to think the world almost didn't use oil 100 years ago. Tesla. Nothing makes me more angry than something like this. WE DO NOT NEED OIL, its just rammed down our throats and apparently there is no "alternative" solution. BULLSHIT. Its going to be the end of us.


ps - Running out of oil my ass... Look how much is coming out of one well.

Sorry for ranting just pissed about this.

bye bye wild life for louisiana


well at lest they will still have there hot sauce


still in shock that is has not been plugged yet

you wonder how many of those oil wells have faulty cut off valves.

so is BP still going to run after this accident? or would it be bankrupted?

You can be sure that after this incident, every single ring is working overtime to ensure their safety valves are 100% operational.

People don't want to see sad images. They want to keep on driving their car. So, they'll briefly see some images of oils covered in oil.. and go "Oh that's sad.", then wait for engineers/volunteers to clean up this spill, and then down the road another spill happens and the whole thing happens again.

sadly the world cannot live without oil right now....but for the past week friends and i have been taking the transit/bike/walk to give awareness to others about the environmental issues in the gulf of Mexico.

good luck with the transit system in vancouver you will quit in 1 week. Is ok if you are going to work on the skytrain during rush hour but for going out it is uesless. Waiting 30mins for a bus? Skytrain having issue every week? yea those are pretty normal in our transit system.

this is the perfect example as to why there is NO justification to offshore drilling. are we going to learn? not necessarily. fucking tragic..