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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:02 PM
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BPs latest oil fix fails
so says ABC News.

20fucking six days later and BP remains clueless.
The insertion pipe did not work.
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Bluebear Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:02 PM
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1. And still our government keeps BP in charge of trying to fix this.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:04 PM
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4. Private industry will reign down their exceptional gooey goodness upon us
These people are real smart. Trust me. They had rich dads
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:03 PM
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2. insertion pipe? top hat? junk shot? oil gush?
Edited on Sat May-15-10 05:03 PM by Oregone
Sounds like porn terminology
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Ruby the Liberal Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:04 PM
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3. LOL!
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:07 PM
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5. Probably developed during those MMS and big oil
orgies.
Good report on ABC tonight. An MIT professor says the booms are an exercise in PR - they won't work. He says BP will be lucky if they contain 1% of the oil.
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:12 PM
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13. heh. You said "booms"
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:11 PM
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11. +1000 +++ n/t
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Delphinus Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:08 PM
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6. F*ck!
What hair-brained scheme are they going to come up with now? More dispersant? Nukes?
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Karmadillo Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:09 PM
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7. Somebody needs to email the White House to let them know what's happening.
nt
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lunatica Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:09 PM
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8. It would have surprised me if it had worked
Next is the junk fix right? How are they going to do that?
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RKP5637 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:10 PM
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9. I'm sure they're quite busy working away on their next feeble attempt and
spinning even more effort on the accompanying propaganda. You know, things like this just happen, we are not the blame, we're just the good guys trying to patch things up. It was really X's fault.
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aquart Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:10 PM
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10. What a surprise. Seize their assets under the Patriot Act.
They have acted in concert to destroy America. NO TERRORIST HAS EVER DONE AS MUCH HARM.
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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:12 PM
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12. Should the Corp of Army engineers take over the well, and bill BP?
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Oregone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:13 PM
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14. Sure, but theyll probably contract the work to Halliburton
Edited on Sat May-15-10 05:13 PM by Oregone
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The Wielding Truth Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 05:40 PM
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15. Gees, Bush and Cheney are still screwing us!
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damntexdem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:23 PM
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16. Did anyone think that it would?
The "relief well" might, just possibly might, in 3 months. In the meantime, there'll be a disaster the size of twenty-some Exxon Valdez disasters.
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WeDidIt Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 06:25 PM
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17. They're just placating everybody.
They know and everybody else in the business knows, it will stop when it stops.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:16 PM
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18. I think you're correct
Sadly.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:20 PM
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19. Do you have a link for this?
I've scoured ABC, CNN, & NBC & can only find the one AP story that says they expect it to work:

BP Confident Latest Try to Capture Oil Will Work

http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=10653958
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:25 PM
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20. I don't have a link but...
I heard the same report on CBS news at 6:30 EDT. The news anchor said that lowering the mile long pipe didn't work and that BP would try something else soon.
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HughMoran Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:26 PM
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21. Yes, all the stories said it failed the first time due to an alignment problem
...if you read the linked story though, it says that they expect to have it hooked up tonight and are "confident" that it will work :shrug:
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Hubert Flottz Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat May-15-10 07:34 PM
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22. It would be great if something worked.
Anything.
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malaise Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-16-10 07:03 AM
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23. It was on ABC News
Brian Ross was on.
On GEM$NBC right how there is a crawl saying BPs latest attempts hit a snag.
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