BP Gulf oil leak

Before I ask my question, I'll just point out I definately hope this leak is plugged and the cleanup can occur as soon as possible.

With that said, for all of you who are going on about the evils of oil drilling, what do you suggest? Companies are practically banned from onshore or more shallow water drilling, hence the reason we have mile deep drilling in the first place. Even in places like ANWAR in Alaska, drilling is banned. There is another post where the person is upset about drilling in the Artic. So I pose the following questions:

Where do you suggest we drill? If you say nowhere, what do you suggest we do for energy? Are you ready for a massive surge in the price of gas?

I know it's cool to trash "evil" corporations, especially oil companies, but I think all the hate is a little bit illogical. There is always some risk of an accident from oil drilling or any industry for that matter. I don't think the solution is to stop drilling outright, but it seems to be what people on this thread seem to want.

 

What do you suppose is going to happen in a few years when the world's oil supply is drained?

The point is that we won't be able to depend on oil for energy for much longer. Rather than focusing on where we can domestically drill for oil, why not focus our energy and money towards coming up with dependable and affordable alternatives.

 

thanks alot BP. we can always count on adults to ruin the world

 

I'm all for that, but we can't stop drilling straight away.

 

Why does it have to be one or the other? I'm all for an alternative sources of energy assuming it's economically feasible and efficient. Unfortunately all the current alternate energy sources right now (wind, solar, hydrogen fuel cells etc..) aren't cost effective or efficient for mass usage. I personally think the true successor for oil hasn't been invented/thought of yet. If we only focus on developing alternative fuel sources, the cost of energy is going to skyrocket in the meantime, and that only hurts everyone. It could be decades before a viable alternative is found and I know I'm not ready to accept skyhigh energy prices while we wait.

There needs to be alternative energy sources, so if nothing else we stop our reliance on OPEC for energy. At the same time, oil isn't going away anytime soon, mainly due to the fact that there is no real alternative right now. We have a massive amount of untapped oil in a number of regions where drilling is banned. Drilling in shallower waters in the Gulf and other bodies or water, on land in ANWAR in Alaska and other land based areas would be MUCH safer than the mile deep drilling that caused this disaster. On top of that, actually fixing a leak could be done much faster as you aren't having to deal with mile deep water pressure, which really limits ways to fix the issue.

 

It happened, no point playing the blame game, just need to get it sorted and fix the problem so it doesn't happen in the future. My guess is it was going to happen sooner or later, BP were just unlucky it was them. However we learn from this, so it doesn't happen again.

 

this is the best idea ever, SNL also had some good ideas when they made fun of this.

 

We should send trained dolphins with nukes strapped to their back and glass the sea floor.

Their sacrifice will not be in vain...

 

Right, try telling that to the families of the 11 oil workers who died.

 

Computer says no.

 

Which part of that did you disagree with... that's it's a dangerous job and accidents were practically on the cards? That BP was unlucky? That it shouldn't happen again?

 

I disagree with the first two points. If you employ lobbyists to completely deregulate the industry, it is not a matter of bad luck when people die and massive disasters occur. The oil industry in the US is a family of trapeze artists performing without a safety net and, when they fall, they explode oil all over everyone. Something like that.

 

Well it wasn't good luck, and it wasn't intentional... sounds like bad luck to me.

 

starjimstar pretty good video, I did´t know and didn´t remember the similarity of the incidentent.

 

Jump off a bridge with the intention of flying. Good luck!

 

The oil workers told BP management that if they kept drilling as deep as they did without taking precautions, something would happen. BP told them to keep drilling anyway.

At the very least the BP management should be charged with manslaughter. You may see it as pointing fingers but the fact remains they were at fault. For the needless deaths, for the spill, for lying to the gov't about how much oil was actually leaking, for the devastation of an area that will take decades to recover from, for all the jobs now gone because of their greed.

Negligence is no excuse. The BP exec knew the danger of continuiong and still went ahead anyway, to me that's intentional.

 

Grrrrrrrrr!!!!!!




Thank you bp for ruining some of the most unique wildlufe areas. You really f*cked us.

 

You intentially jumped off the bridge hoping to fly.