Oil Spill (I like gummi bears| 10 characters)

Oh god...BP has a LOT to answer for. Any idea what's going to happen, since it still hasn't been plugged?

Yes, they seem to be floundering around trying to figure out how to fix the damn thing. The last plan I heard was that tey were going to try to forcibly shoot mud into theoutflow, hoping that it will (somehow) stay there and form a plug. Sounds odd to me, but it was the last thing I heard.

Would it be possible to just block it off with sediment, or at least stem it until they can find a real solution?

If I were in charge of these oil spill thingies, Id just burn it off the surface of the water...
Should work...
Maybe... ? :|

They've already done that, but it hasn't done much

AHungryTurtle wrote:

If I were in charge of these oil spill thingies, Id just burn it off the surface of the water...
Should work...
Maybe... ? :|

Yeah, they burn off the natural gas that comes out with the oil, but they don't burn the oil. If you burn the oil then the surface of the area you're trying to work is on fire, so you can't get your equipment in over the leak. They say the mud / sediment / concrete / plug idea is working somewhat. We shall see what happens. Now everyone is playing the blame game, from BP and Obama on down.

I think that at this point if the people of New Orleans don't get the hint they never will.

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