The latest attempt to stop the leak seems to be doing something.
BP executives said that their efforts to capture the oil gushing into the Gulf of Mexico have begun to work and that a containment cap placed over the damaged well Thursday night sucked up about 441,000 gallons of oil -- on Saturday, up from around 250,000 gallons on Friday. That oil was diverted to a waiting ship.
Maybe this time it will actually work. One of the problems that BP has is that they over sold their ability to fix the problem. There was too much we know exactly what we are doing. Too much of this time this plan will work. After awhile BP became less and less credible. The longer this crisis goes on the more it shows that there really aren’t any quick and clean fixes for this problem. If this doesn’t give people pause for allowing this type of drilling to continue than nothing will.
It points to yet again the need for this country to loose its dependence on oil of any kind foreign or domestic.
Most of all you’re sadden by the lives that were lost on the explosion. The lives that are being ruined economically. The lives that are being ruined because a way of life is being destroyed. Haven’t these people been through enough? The ruin it is causing on the environment.
In the Post story today National incident commander Thad W. Allen said the cleanup will take at least several months. But the repercussions will be felt for years if not decades to come.
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