Today, the on again, off again comedy of British Petroleum’s efforts to stem the flow of oil blanketing the Gulf of Mexico continue. The company’s latest endeavor, a so called “top kill” of the well, was postponed and then later approved. According to the news, BP postponed their attempt this morning and later received authorization form the US Coast Guard to proceed. BP’s Tony Hayward spoke to the Today Show on the Gulf.
With most of the world watching one of its largest corporations flounder in every respect to at least bring a halt to oil polluting America’s coast, there is still more calamity ahead than closure apparently. Hayward on camera fairly exhibited the same posture he and his company have be taken to task over these last weeks – appearing to want to be anywhere but at the scene of the crime. At least he took everyone’s advice and flew his corporate buttocks across the pond in a show of concern. Maybe he is mad at America? He sure looks like it.
Pray BP Has No Really Big Problems
This is not about Tony Hayward so much as the mountain of inconsistencies piling up over this disaster. The straigt scoop from Hayward though, is that BP feel there is only a 60 percent chance the “top kill” operation will succeed. Just why siphoning was ever tried, anyone can guess, but BP’s apparent intention to stop their live feed during the attempt met with anger and frustration too. All this business has to make the average citizen want to pray to the almighty BP and other oil giants don’t have a “big” catastrophe on their hands soon.
BP Cannot Read Flow Gauges
It is interesting to note too, that with all the speculation about just how much oil is spewing from their well, Hayward himself admitted that they have pressure and flow numbers running on the well even now. You read that correctly, one of the world’s largest producers of liquid stuff cannot even tell how much is flowing with the gauges in tact!
It surely seems like BP’s lawyers and bean counters are still in charge in all this. Trying caps designed to siphon, direct siphoning, more intended siphoning, and now pumping heavy sand into the well? Heavy sand? Sounds like a combination of engineering and accounting to me – a “soft” fix so millions could be saved re drilling. Do they want to use this well again? A good question for the Washington Post to ask maybe.
The Big Damned Rock Method
hat is wrong with the 21st Century “Big Damned Rock” theory? Sink a battleship on top of the sucker, I say. Let’s just be glad BP is not in charge of a hospital. “Yes Dr. Hayward, we can siphon off 4 quarts of blood, seal the needle, and then siphon some more once the family leaves.” Meanwhile, back in Washington, the painfully inept swagger and bitch, form a dozen committees, and do what politicians and bureaucrats do best – goof off. Obama should just shove Hayward and his clowns off the map, put the Navy on it, and send BP the bill.
The video below shows a little piece of what is happening while the committees are forming. People’s lives ruined, millions of creatures dead or dying, a vacation playground turned into a sewer – and Hayward looks miffed? Mr. Hayward, how about showing BP’s ingenuity and coming up with a 100 percent solution. Fred Flintstone and Barney Rubble could do better.
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