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Federal Flow Rate Technical Team Established To Determine Extent of BP Oil Spill

HP Comments:

Ok one thing I'd like people to picture and reporters to document is that what has happened so far between the federal government and British Petroleum amounts to following the regulations and protocol established for dealing with things like this. They've now reached the end of that protocol and the feds are stepping in.

But try to see it in these terms. Instead of something of this magnitude feature an oil or gas well blowing out some place out in the middle of nowhere, or off foreign shores. It happens. They take care of it, get it killed and things go on. That's happened thousands of times just like this one is blowing out but you never heard a word about that because none of them could match the pressure and volume of what they drilled into here.

I can honestly say I've spent most my life working in the oilfield and just an honestly say I've never worked around the kind of pressure and volume we're talking about here.

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Thanks for the insight.

The only thing I would add is that the American people and our Government have been jacked around by so many corporations over the last decade or so and already lost so much.

The U.S. should have assumed the same thing would happen with BP and of course the worse did happen. So now a month is lost and the Gulf is probably beyond saving. This thing could take down our whole economy and Wall Street again, and Main Street just can't take any more hits.

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The really horrible thing about this hasn't sunk in on anyone, even the government. This oil well blowout has, essentially, killed the Gulf of Mexico. How does one calculate the worth of killing a body of water so important to the country and the oceans? How can one calculate the worth of the sea life, mammals, fish, and birds which will die because of this, the beaches will shall not be useful, lives that are going to be ruined because of it, the way of life which has been destroyed, and the availability of seafood which isn't going to exist once this spreads throughout the Gulf?

Then, the effects are going to be magnified if a hurricane gets into the Gulf of Mexico. Just think about the damage done by a hurricane and multiply it perhaps by fifty times. Not a single structure contaminated by the sea water washed ashore shall be salvageable. The ground will be toxic, and the oil will cause toxic fumes which could kill anything left in the area after the storm. The insurance companies will not pay, claiming that the damage is due to the actions of BP, and lawsuits shall ensue and years in court shall leave the area a ghost town, a toxic sea of toxic oil residue and a Mad Max scenario.