The Gulf Oil Nightmare

I hate to admit it, but I have serious doubts about them even being able to get this fixed to a point of zero leakage. Without being able to completely cover the entire well head and the surrounding plumming systems there for sure will be some level of leakage going on for many months or even years until the level of oil/gas pressure drains below that of the ocean/water pressure being exerted upon it now. Once the pressure equalizes between the oil/gas & the water then BP will be able to force the oil back into the well and seal it. Who knows how long it may take for that equalization to happen, but with the pressure escaping from that well head right now it looks like it may be quite some time before any of us sees that.

Who is at fault? We are. We all are.... It is our need for that oil that is driving the entire oil industry to do the things they are doing. That uncludes taking short cuts and overlooking saftey issues to keep the oil flowing so you and I and everyone else can drive our cars, use plastics, and purchase all of the other products that come from this crude oil. Until we as a spiecies stop depending on this oil in the many ways that we do this will not stop. We truly do need to focus our attention and resources on alternative power.

Think about this? It took our planet literally thousands of years to compress and create this fosil fuel from organic matter, and we have gone through a great % of it in just 100 years. We have already used up the easy to get to oil, and now we are digging deeaper and deeper into the planet to retrieve what is left, and at what cost? Many lives will be lost, and who knows how many other disasters we will create if we keep moving in this direction. We as human beings need to really push for more solar, wind, and hydor electric power sources to be used, before we do even more damage to our delicate eco system and create an atmosphere that is uninhabitable by whoever is left here by that time to sustain even a simpe life of survival. This disaster is much much bigger than the terrible pictures that the media are sharing with us. The size of this calamity is only just getting started, and the depth of the real disaster is going to be so great that we may not be able to undue what has been done to our surrounding oceans. Once this escapes the Gulf waters it will spread around the world faster than we can possible move to stop it.

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When Henry Ford was Alive he was going to use Soy bean or some other kinda plant to make their plastics and other synthetic materials.But Petroleum was so cheap and available that they decided to use the petroleum version.
But what People don`t realize gasoline,Plastics,paints. and other things have components from Petroleum,so you have realize that the whole market for crude oil/petroleum is more than just fuel for vehicles.