Worst Engineering Disaster to Hit South East Louisiana in 4 & 1/2 Years

[infrogmation]

News of the "Deepwater Horizon" oil spill just keeps getting worse. BP has admitted the size of the leak was 5 times the volume were saying 2 days ago, and that they have no idea how to stop it from continuing to get worse.


Forget the word "spill."

"This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse."


Times-Picayune: Gulf spill is really a river of oil

Comments

[jdquintette.livejournal.com]

I guess "drill baby drill" is "spill baby spill."

Idiots. Flogging's too good for em.

How's that drilly drilly stuff workin' out fer ya?

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

All those who chanted "Drill baby drill" now have to report to the Gulf coast today for cleanup duty.

(Similarly said by Humid City and Bill Maher, and probably other folks. Hey, it's obvious common sense, no?)

[pentomino.livejournal.com]

So, the Gulf of Mexico is going to become a tar pit now, and we're going to have to live with it. What do we do now?