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Best case scenario for stopping the leak: Sunday when they try pumping drilling "mud" into the pipe

Worst case scenario for stopping the leak: August, when they have the relief well drilled.

so how is the progress coming along?

still leaking?

not sure, but i'm pretty sure the oil has reached the land.

Ron Paul's idiot son Rand, who made comments about the civil rights bill a couple days, had this to say about BP:

Shocked that people like this could be up for office.

You can watch live if you like of the spill,

http://www.ustream.tv/channel/wkrg

^ "..you got a woman with a baby in the oven and bills due.." 1:48 :confused:

They must be REALLY suffering if they going to eat their baby

U.S. will "push" out BP if spill response falls short

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HOUSTON (Reuters) – The U.S. government will move aside BP from the operation to try to halt the Gulf of Mexico oil spill if it decides the company is not performing as required in its response to the well leak, U.S. Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said on Sunday.

"I am angry and I am frustrated that BP has been unable to stop this oil from leaking and to stop the pollution from spreading," Salazar told reporters after visiting BP's U.S. headquarters in Houston.

"We are 33 days into this effort and deadline after deadline has been missed," Salazar added, referring to the failure of containment efforts attempted so far by London-based BP to control the gushing undersea well one mile down on the ocean floor.

President Barack Obama's administration is facing growing public and political pressure to take full charge of the oil spill containment operation as criticism against BP grows.

The spill is threatening an ecological and economic disaster along the U.S. Gulf Coast.

"If we find they're not doing what they're supposed to be doing, we'll push them out of the way appropriately," Salazar said, but he did not specify at what point this would occur or what might be the trigger for it.

"This is an existential crisis for one of the world's largest companies," he said, in a reference to the billions of dollars of cleanup and damages costs that BP faces.

Salazar also said BP had agreed to pay cleanup costs beyond the $75 million liability limit set by current U.S. law.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100523/...il_rig_salazar

i think its time for someone else to step in.

they should just let China step in.

They would have the job done over night. (/sarcasm)

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Originally Posted by orange7 (Post 6962928)

they should just let China step in.

They would have the job done over night. (/sarcasm)

Why, do they need a railroad built?

there's plenty of time to point fingers after they plug the hole

Oil is all over the shoreline now,

New pictures
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...na_shores.html

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Originally Posted by asian_speedster (Post 6963878)

Oil is all over the shoreline now,

New pictures
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...na_shores.html

dam.. . I wish this mess would just end soon

Is there any website with good visuals that explains what's going on? I've read a couple of articles and can't seem to visualize what's going on other than knowing that oil is leaking from a pipe.

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Originally Posted by asian_speedster (Post 6963878)

Oil is all over the shoreline now,

New pictures
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...na_shores.html

Those photos are amazing.

man, this thing is ugly...

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Originally Posted by Jeremy_888 (Post 6962657)

^ "..you got a woman with a baby in the oven and bills due.." 1:48 :confused:

They must be REALLY suffering if they going to eat their baby

"in the oven" is slang for saying that somebody has a baby on the way

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Originally Posted by asian_speedster (Post 6963878)

Oil is all over the shoreline now,

New pictures
http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/201...na_shores.html

Fantastic pics!

This is retarded. Until they get their heads out of how much money they're losing, how they can reduce as much profit loss as possible, oil is just gonna keep leaking. They have to understand that this is a global problem. It is our drinking water and our nature that is in jeopardy here.
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Those photos were great. Its so sad how we still can't contain our own mess.

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Originally Posted by sunny_j (Post 6962924)

U.S. will "push" out BP if spill response falls short

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100523/...il_rig_salazar

i think its time for someone else to step in.

I think someone should have stepped in when the 2nd attempt failed. This is ridiculous, the government shouldn't have to baby corporations but this is such a huge environmental disaster. The government is just as responsible in times of crisis.

my god the shoreline is totally messed up, i cant believe it has been leaking for over a month now!!

i think they should be shut down after this maybe even so set to jail