all politicians are puppets.And yeah ecosystem there fucked the algae the fish that eat the algae the things that eat the fish and the so on fuckeddddddd

I remember reading an article about these engineered microorganisms that can digest the oil into harmless, inhert organic matter. Either way, there is no quick fix or ace in the hole in this case. It will take money and alot of sweat equity to handle this problem.

What about a thick inflatable balloon, stick that in the pipe and inflate it.

Saya needs to lay off the drugs.

Some said "Send out the Navy" The issue isn't man power, but supply. They can only have so many ships, they omly have sop much supply to use. BUT Canada did a test to see if they are "ready for the worst" and we are not. We don't even have enough of the "advance" oil boomer for the amount of shore for the oil rig off the coast of Newfoundland. Every place were we have off shore oil drilling, we shoulhave enough oil boom for the amount of shoreline to start with and have allot more oil skimmers then we do.

It makes me sick. I want to go to BP and kill somebody.. but it wouldnt fix it.

It is now said that when they tried the "Top kill" with the cement and mud that they can't trust the structural integrity of the well now so they can't plug it.  They have to funnel it or one or both of the relief wells have to work.  Not very reassuring for any of us living on the coast.  :(

Damn, how unlucky, first BP have an oil spill, and now PB... who ever they are???

lol, sorry, bad joke.

Anywho, a few points.

The Brits are getting hammered ovr this, but we have to remember a few points about BPs work in the Gulf.

1) A large percentage of the company is owned by American investment groups, so its no longer just a British Company.

2) BP's US concerns are staffed and run by Americans. It was those Americans who built the well, and those same Americans who decided to take short cuts to save money, increase profit and therefore put the entire gulf eco system at risk. Oil companies are known to be very safety conscious and do not tend to compromise on the enforcement of safety rules. However, a recent study by the Deepwater Horizon Study Group, led by Professor Robert Bea of the Centre for Catastrophic Risk Management at the University of California, Berkeley, discovered that "BP-US Plc and the Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service (A US government agency) failed to properly assess and manage the natural hazards in a prudent manner."

3) The president wants BP to set aside 136 billion to compensate those who are affected by the leak. This smacks of double standards. Activists are complaining about why the US and UK, which are now fretting over the environmental devastation of the Gulf of Mexico spill, close their eyes to similar situations caused by their companies.
The Amazon Watchdog, has, for example, expressed concern about the death of 40 people of the Amazon rainforest in Peru over whether multinational oil companies should have access to explore and drill for oil and minerals on ancestral lands under a "free trade" agreement forged between the Bush administration and Peru." The watchdog calls on President Obama to reconsider the "free trade."

Lawyers and activists are also citing US reaction to the spill as justification for the demands of indigenous people from a formerly pristine region of the Amazon rainforest in Ecuador for relief from an American company for what they describe as the largest oil-related environmental catastrophe ever. The same argument is being used by protesters against oil spills in the Niger Delta, where according to the National Oil Spill Detection and Response Agency (NOSDRA), an estimated 66,697 barrels of oil were spilled between January 2006 and June 2009.

Protesting over a recent spill at ExxonMobil's Qua Iboe field, Rev. Samuel Ayadi, Chairman of the Akwa Ibom State Chapter of Artisan Fishermen Association of Nigeria (ARFAN) was reported to have said "It is a paradox that the current oil spill in the Mexican Gulf is attracting so much outcry from the American public and leadership but an American oil company is doing worse damage and poisoning the lives of hundreds of millions of Nigerians who depend on fish as the cheapest source of protein and nobody is talking about it." In fact Exxonmobil has irrecably altered the Nigerian enviornment and caused suffering and hardship to untold millions in Nigeria, but i don't see Obama ordering them to clean up their mess and set aside hundreds of billions in reparations... I guess out of sight, out of mind.

4) Many American's who where on the brink of Bankrupcy prior to the leak due to the global Economic downturn are profeteering from the spill, and using it as an excuse to rake in a small fortune that they would otherwise not have had access to. Infact, the spill, far from being an economic disaster in the area, has infact revitalized industry and improved the economy around the Gulf of Mexico.

5) The leak is now the worst oil spill in history, and it is overwhelming the best and brightest minds in the business. This is not a reflection on BP or its staff, but on the crude oil industry as a whole. This is not just another tanker leack, this is as has been pointed out an underwater oil well that is leaking billions of barrels of oil into the Atlantic ocean.

Chuck Norris. That is the answer.

Interesting that no one is pointing out a couple of massive things Presi Barak has glossed over.

The concreting was done by a US company.

The safety work was supposed to have been done was shambolically done by a US company yet no mention of this.....

British Petroleum as Presi Barak keeps calling it hasn't been named that in years, it changed its name to BP because of its global ownership, amazing he can keep getting the name wrong again and again and again... are you sure it isn't George Bush still in charge?

As for the chap who said BP were asked to provide $136 billion to compensate people you are having a laugh it is approx a 10th of that. BP have agreed to do this and will follow it through till the end, I guess it is a massive shame that the American Companies involved in this disaster haven't the backbone to poke their heads up and say "Yes we fucked up and will contribute our side to it" instead of calling up some piss poor legislation that the American Government put in place to limit liability to a matter of millions.