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Oil Leak

soupcan May 28 2010 09:33 AM

Anybody watching the live video feed of the leak and repair efforts? I have no idea what it is I'm seeing but I find it fascinating. Oil Leak Live!

Edgy DC May 28 2010 09:42 AM Re: Oil Leak

On the BP site. Nice.

Nymr83 May 28 2010 11:13 AM Re: Oil Leak

"heres our fuck up for all to see" it would be like the yankees website showing Mazeroski's HR over and over again. i kinda like that idea...

metsmarathon May 28 2010 12:58 PM Re: Oil Leak

seems like a good pr move to me...

DocTee May 28 2010 02:14 PM Re: Oil Leak

Them BPers are crafty... [url]http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/26/bp-tries-to-mislead-you-with-graphs/

Valadius May 29 2010 06:38 AM Re: Oil Leak

The oil spill has more or less run my life at work the last month. Our office has taken the lead on holding BP and other oil companies accountable for oil spills. We've written a bunch of bills meant to raise the liability cap on damages, end tax breaks and close tax loopholes for oil companies, and shut the revolving door between oil lobbyists and regulators.

Ashie62 May 29 2010 02:31 PM Re: Oil Leak

[quote="DocTee"]Them BPers are crafty... [url]http://flowingdata.com/2010/05/26/bp-tries-to-mislead-you-with-graphs/

and full of shit

Methead May 29 2010 09:34 PM Re: Oil Leak

[quote="Valadius":1hwt9ete]The oil spill has more or less run my life at work the last month. Our office has taken the lead on holding BP and other oil companies accountable for oil spills. We've written a bunch of bills meant to raise the liability cap on damages, end tax breaks and close tax loopholes for oil companies, and shut the revolving door between oil lobbyists and regulators.[/quote:1hwt9ete] Thank you.

Nymr83 May 29 2010 09:47 PM Re: Oil Leak

We've written a bunch of bills meant to raise the liability cap on damages, end tax breaks and close tax loopholes for oil companies costs which will be passed on to the consumers of oil products. and shut the revolving door between oil lobbyists and regulators ok, thats good, but the cynic (ie realist) in me says that you can never just have a vote on a good idea in washington without everyone and their mother attaching unrelated and/or flat out bad ideas to it. the government should place restrictions on employees seeking employment in the industry when they leave the gov't, this isnt just in the oil industry but anywhere that you have gov't employees overseeing regulation of the private sector. the argument against this is that it causes skilled people to not want to work in the gov't in the first place. i say horseshit. gov't employees get paid plenty of money and many have obscene benefits by private standards, [qualified] people will still want these jobs.

Edgy DC May 30 2010 11:58 PM Re: Oil Leak

It seems a bit anti-libertarian and I'm not sure it could be particularly effective. I can't really see how not hiring former government workers will keep oil companies (or other hugely profitable interests) to use their money to shield themsleves from government oversight. Either the govenment does their job overseeing and regulating, or they don't. And if they don't, they get replaced with a government that does. Rinse (really rinse) and repeat. I just hope the anti-regulation movemen't that's been gaining steam the last 12 months uses this object lesson as an opportunity to distinguish regulation that harasses corporations to advance trade or social policy from regulation that genuinely protects the public.

MFS62 Jun 01 2010 08:20 AM Re: Oil Leak

They can solve two problems by stuffing Ollie Perez in the leaking pipe. Later

Edgy DC Jun 17 2010 09:26 AM Re: Oil Leak

I was listening to BP chair Carl-Henric Svanberg make a statement yesterday about his meeting with the president. "He's frustrated because he cares about the small people, and we care about the small people." "I hear comments that sometimes large oil companies are greedy companies that don't care. But that is not the case with BP. We care about the small people." I realize he's a Swede and this probably didn't come out in English quite how he meant it, but I imagined the BP PR flacks dying a little with each recurrence of the phrase, and weeping openly by the time he said it a third time.

Ashie62 Jun 17 2010 09:36 AM Re: Oil Leak

OK, I really thought that protestor was going to kill Heyward. That was scary.

MFS62 Jun 17 2010 09:36 AM Re: Oil Leak

It was reported on Good Day, New York that he later learned how what he said could be misinterpreted, and appologized. I'll give him this one. English isn't his first language and his real meaning was probably "lost in the translation". He was trying to differentiate between big buisness and the individual people who were effected by the spill. Later

metsmarathon Jun 17 2010 09:51 AM Re: Oil Leak

also, the small people often refer to themselves as small people.

Ashie62 Jun 17 2010 11:26 AM Re: Oil Leak

[quote="metsmarathon":3l8p3f0y]also, the small people often refer to themselves as small people.[/quote:3l8p3f0y] say what?

metsmarathon Jun 17 2010 12:39 PM Re: Oil Leak

"big business is always forgetting / trampling about us little guys" and the like. although i suppose it is possible that the bp guy was referring specifically to midgets, and the disproportionate impact his company's spill has had on their community. it's kindof sweet, looking at it in that regard.

metirish Jun 17 2010 12:48 PM Re: Oil Leak

Reports had Biden ripping them a new one in the meeting yesterday....playing the bad cop role.

Rockin' Doc Jun 20 2010 08:58 PM Re: Oil Leak

Just got home from a long weekend in Orlando, Fla. During our travels we came across 3 different BP stations (2 in Ga & 1 in SC) that were open for convenience store sales, but all the pumps were roped off as if they were out of gas. This was something I had not previously encountered and did not expected to find. Is BP having distribution or supply problems or did I simply stumble across a strange?

Edgy DC Jun 20 2010 09:03 PM Re: Oil Leak

I suppose it's possible those stations can be switching to a different supplier.

Valadius Jun 29 2010 09:19 PM Re: Oil Leak

I left work tonight at 10 PM as we are working feverishly on a bipartisan bill to address some of the issues that led to the oil spill. It's being marked up in committee tomorrow.

Nymr83 Jun 29 2010 10:42 PM Re: Oil Leak

and you are home at 10:19? (or is my clock setting off?) i want that commute.

Valadius Jun 30 2010 04:41 AM Re: Oil Leak

Your clock setting's off, I posted that at 11:19, but I got home after 10:30.