QuakerOats wrote: Things the president is doing during the 'crisis':

http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2010/05/the-presidential-planner-17.html

Meanwhile the government bureaucracy is holding up permits that Jindal is begging for .............................. change we can believe in ..........

ptown_trojans_1 wrote: On Jindal, I agree, a big Charlie Foxtrot about the permits and such.

j_crazy wrote: i hope to God it doesn't fail.

majorspark wrote:

ptown_trojans_1 wrote: On Jindal, I agree, a big Charlie Foxtrot about the permits and such.

This would be a good time to tell the feds to go pound sand and do what needs to be done. Jindal should just exercise his power as governor and take action.

The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.

majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water.

majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".

The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928

ptown_trojans_1 wrote:

majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".

The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928

No way. What thread was it where we just said Coster could save the world? Awesome.

ptown_trojans_1 wrote:

majorspark wrote: BP is testing Kevin Costner's machines that claim to be able to separate oil from water. I was not aware of this. Hopefully this will be more successful than "Waterworld".

The devices, which can be taken to the spill site via barges, come in different sizes. The largest can clean water at a rate of 200 gallons per minute -- more than 50 gallons faster than the well is leaking, according to the firm. Depending on the water to oil ratio, the devices are capable of extracting 2,000 barrels of oil per day from the gulf. BP is employing six of the machines in its tests.

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/kevin-costner-machine-bp-oil-clean/story?id=10689928

No way. What thread was it where we just said Coster could save the world? Awesome.

...I’ve heard no complaints from my members about the way the president has handled it,” Pelosi stated.

tk421 wrote: Not that I want to jinx it, but I'm surprised the gas prices haven't risen because of this spill.

majorspark wrote:

tk421 wrote: Not that I want to jinx it, but I'm surprised the gas prices haven't risen because of this spill.

That is because Bush and Cheney are no longer in power. They would have been able to get their cronies in big oil to jack up prices so they could reap windfall profits.