So what happens if President Obama goes ahead and puts the Military

[WCGreen]

in charge of taking care of the capping the billowing oil well and they fail?

What if the actions taken actually make it worse? What then?

Doesn't anybody consider that the president may be taking into consideration the catastrophe that would happen if they made the situation worse by sending in the military.

I don't know. It's 5,000 feet under the ocean. even our deepest subs don't get down that far. Sunlight doesn't get down that far.

The pressure, I understand, is a million tons per square inch or some such unfathomable measure.

Do we really want to try something that could potentially rip open the sea bed and cause the oil field to combine with the water into some vast pressure released explosion.

Who knows?

As far as we can tell, no one really has a viable solution beside the tried and true method of drilling relief wells.

Maybe they should just start drilling those wells know while they are working out other solutions.

Hell they probably should have started drilling those wells four weeks ago.

If I have a fault with how the president is handling this disaster it is that they didn't order BP to start working on the relief wells after a week had gone by. At least we would have been heading toward an end game. Now we are still talking about blowing the shit out of the well.

Anyway, that's my junk shot.

[CaliforniaPeggy]

1. I am so distressed by the Gulf disaster...

I keep seeing the dolphins and all the fish drowning, unable to escape...smothering in all that toxic oil.

And thinking that whatever BP tries might make it worse? Scary.

I'm not at all sure the military is a good idea...but when people get scared, they often think of things that sound good but might not actually be.

I wish Obama luck.

[MannyGoldstein]

2. They are drilling a relief well now

But that's all BP knows how to do. We need creative problem solvers to fix this faster, not BP standard-issue "yes men".

[Ozymanithrax]

3. BP began drilling relief wells on May fifth. They were drilling two of them.

http://www.scandoil.com/moxie-bm2/news/bp-begins-work-to-drill-relief-well-to-stop-oil-sp.shtml

At best, it will take another 90 days to finish and as much as 120 days.

From what I read, they stopped drilling one of the relief wells because they are going to use the BOP to repalce the damaged BOP on the well.

So this should relieve your fault with the President on the relief well issue.

[WCGreen]

4. Outside of that...

I don't se how president Obama can be blamed for anything else...

But then again i tend to be a rational thinker and have learned not to get excited about things I have no control over. I think it's a combination of my AA and accounting experience.

I have had far to many personal issues as of late to get into all the intricacies of the whole situation. I just felt if there is a sure way to attack the problem that takes several months then you need to get going on that rig th away while other solutions are put forth.

I am glad they are sinking the relief wells since that may be our only option to truly stooping this disaster.

[Pirate Smile]

5. They've been working on relief wells for over a month. They are at least half way there but

the second half takes longer because of the fact that it is deeper (according to what I read).

[salguine]

6. Obama's not thinking "If I send in the military it could make things worse." He's thinking

"Mustn't upset BP."

[emulatorloo]

7. Bullshit

Drop the snark and spare me the hyperbolic reply you are composing,

[salguine]

9. No!

[babylonsister]

8. How do you know what he's thinking? Oh, that's right, you don't. nt

[dionysus]

10. more bullshit...

[Ikonoklast]

11. The military aren't petroleum engineers, nor are they experts in deep-water drilling.

Please state which branch of the military has the expertise, know-how, materiel, technical skill to do ANYTHING about this.

[ProSense]

12. Admiral Mullen: Oil Industry Better Equipped to Counter Spill

Admiral Mullen: Oil Industry Better Equipped to Counter Spill

The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff says the oil industry is better-equipped than the U.S. military to deal with the massive oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico.

In a televised interview on ABC's Good Morning America Monday, Admiral Mike Mullen responded to suggestions that the military should take the lead in the oil spill containment and clean-up.

Mullen said military officials have looked at the equipment the military has available, but that the best technology exists in the oil industry.

The spill, which began in late April after an oil rig exploded and sank off the coast of the southern state of Louisiana, is the worst in American history. The U.S. government estimates between 70 million and 150 million liters of oil have already been leaked into the Gulf waters.

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