Since Obama himself proclaimed that HE is in charge, I continue to blame the administration for the no/slow response and lack of coordination on this.

Others still want to blame the big bad oil company. They are ultimately to blame and are responsible for the cost to clean it up as best possible. Its never gonna be like it was.

However, I believe that when it comes to protecting America - jobs, land, wildlife, industry etc ... that IS our Govt's responsibility.

On a side note - I found this piece.
Bold mine.
I'm not sure what ireport is other than its not from the CNN news staff, but this was virtually all news to me.

I'm not sure those two options are mutually exclusive.

Well they aren't going to let it run dry and then nuke it.
Or nuke it and then let it run dry .. .. ..
What do you mean?

Nuking it could allow it to run dry faster. Especially considering the other bolded paragraph.

How does nuking it fit in with the methane-explosion-tsunami-doomsday scenario?

I heard about that, from a nearby to there resident. I offered a move to Ohio...but one figured death will come slowly or quickly. I contend that it'll be like The Stand, and I will have to decide whether I'll go to the good side, or the dark side. Nadine, anyone?

Take the blue pill.

It is normal and natural to have small, occasional leaks of oil from the sea floor. The ocean can deal with a few thousand gallons here and there. How much is coming from sources outside the main well-head?

This is potentially misleading. The well head is leaking appx 2 million gallons per day. The way it is written, one could easily think that the other leaks are leaking at that rate.
Further, the article suggests that the well hole is fractured beneath the surface and this is leaking though permeable shallow rock in the area to feed the other leaks. The article suggests that this means that capping the well won't contani the other leaks.
However, the mud/concrete plug is to fill the well hole for hundreds, maybe thousands of feet. If it goes as planned, it WILL cut off all oil to the near-sea-floor region.

Speaking as one of the worst doom-saying worrywarts in the Cellar, I think this article is BS. The plug should work, eventually - might take a few tries - and this will stop any major associated leaking. Minor leaking is tolerable. They will not nuke it. No way.

I'm more concerned about hurricane season. Alex went well off to the east, but still screwed with the containment operations. Sooner or later, a storm is going to make a direct hit. Gonna be ... interesting...

Oh while I'm at it ...
Can't help but notice that things like people and rights aren't on this list ... but then, I'm a stinkin' socialist pinko type. ;)

I'm not worried about a hurricane. worst case scenario is that they have to remove the cap entirely and leave the area for several days while the hurricane passes through. That will increase the spill for those days, which is bad, but it's not like they are collecting all the oil spilling out anyway.

:grinnylov

Nice way to misrepresent my points. That alone was a key...
What do they have to do with the spill?

Rush Limbaugh logic remains alive and well. Apparently this reporter also knew Saddam had WMDs.

We know the source of this problem. It was created when top management openly encouraged reckless procedures at the expense of intelligent thought and despite what the engineers were saying. It was the same attitude that launched the Challenger when not even one engineer said it was safe. We know these management policies of optimizing profits are directly traceable to attitude and knowledge on and before 2008. When even sexting parties were all but encouraged by the administration. When all responsibility in all industries (including autos, finance, science and research, and military contractors) was subverted and discouraged.

We also know well proven solutions are two drilling operations. That will intercept the well in late August or early September. And we know when BP tried to stop one of these drills, the White House personally intervened to make sure both drills were operating. So that at least one would intercept the well ASAP. And yet extremists would still blame Obama - for the same reasons they knew Saddam had WMDs?

We also know the LA, MS, and FL coast damage was an inevitable conclusion well over a month ago. That no skimming, booms, dispersants, etc would avert this damage that had to be averted many years ago. We know BP even lied about the size of the leak. And can understand why they would lie for months. But Limbaugh logic would blame Obama - as any wacko extremist would routinely do. And forget to mention the sexting parties ongoing when the White House openly encouraged corruption - including the world's largest corruption scandal - K Street. But we should blame Obama.

Somehow we are to believe that earth was intact for a million years. And that suddenly it has numerous three mile deep factures? Fractures created by BP? And this is Obama's fault? With fiction after myth believed, no wonder Saddam had WMDs. There is only one way to describe such nonsense. A head that is doing the thinking lies between two legs. It is where Limbaugh logic is generated. It is where political agendas originate - including Saddam's WMDs.

The well proven solutions should achieve their objectives in late August or early September. Meanwhile, the Gulf will have an Exxon Valdez spill every four days. Deal with reality. And why extremist Presidents and sexting parties are so destructive to the environment, America's image, and the American economy.

If I invited you to a dinner party at our house, could you come and do that thing that you just did? Because you have something special.

Classic, mate ... ;)

In other news, I've seen some twit saying that they're drilling too deep and it is going to unleash a volcano. :lol: OMG we're doomed! We won't even make it to 2012!

No we won't make it until 2012. The aliens are coming back Dec of 2011. I keep telling everyone, but everyone wants that extra time. ;)

Those illegal aliens will go back to Mars. The stimulus that has averted a serious recession ends in 2011. We know from 1929 and 1933 that we will not have any jobs for them ... unless they want to be hired as Martian Rover repairmen.

However Spirit may have died. More job losses.

Only thing we can do about the oil spill is call that a new reality - or try to get that job on Mars.