Posted by John in La on April 29, 2010 at 18:01:41 from (72.150.55.208):
The entire local news cast tonight was about the oil spill just off the coast and the fact that it is suppose to hit the shore line sometime this weekend. The whole southern part of the state is buzzing. From local fisherman signing up to spread out boom to the governor declaring a state of emergency and asking for funds to deploy 6000 national guard troops. While the oil is still 3 to 5 miles off the coast; they are predicting 30 knot winds out of the S to SE this weekend with 10ft seas.
While they have tried a few different things already none seem to be working. They even tried setting some of the oil on fire to burn it off before it reaches the shore but those plans have been scrubbed. Plans now include building a funnel trap to put over the leaking well to trap the 5000 barrels of oil leaking every day till they can drill 2 pressure relief wells.
Just some of the cost........ 6 million a day in clean up. A rig that cost 365 million to build sunk in the gulf. 100 million to drill each relief well. And lets not forget the lawyers are coming out of the wood work as the suits line up against every company that made one piece that was used on the rig.
I guess $3.00 a gallon gas does not look so bad with liability cost like that.
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