"BP Plc (BP.L) said on Saturday the complex "top kill" maneuver to plug its Gulf of Mexico oil well has failed, crushing hopes for a quick end to the largest oil spill in U.S. history already in its 40th day.
"We have not been able to stop the flow," said Doug Suttles, the London-based oil giant's chief operating officer.
"We have made the decision to move on to the next option," he added.
That next option is called the lower marine riser package cap, one that captures oil from the well rather than plug it. Suttles said it could take four days or longer to show results.
U.S. Coast Guard Admiral Mary Landry, flanking Suttles at a daily briefing, said the news of the top kill failure was disappointing and that the best option for ending the spill was drilling a relief well which BP estimates will take two months."
Reuters
The media and all the talking heads either can't see it or they're being told not to say it but this blowout will effect everyone on the planet. As the Gulf dies and the oil nears the Gulf Stream all we hear about is Lady GaGa.
The great chastisement has begun. Isn't it ironic that God has chosen to turn the very thing, oil, that allowed us to live a life so far removed from any other human experience of life that one could almost make the argument that our lives really haven't been human after all. Oil afforded us the arrogance to turn against our Creator and allowed us to take His place in the temple, to sit on His seat as the final arbiters of right and wrong.
We're about to be taught a lesson about the exact nature of humanity and how powerful the true God is.
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You realize, of course, that this is but a very small seam in the Earth's crust that has opened up? If God wanted, then the supervolcano at Yellowstone national park could erupt in real fury, burying all of the North America Continent under literally meters of pyroplastic ash. We haven't experience ANYTHING yet.
ReplyDeleteI know and I sense it come. Essentially, God has been firing across our bow. With the blowout in the Gulf he has sent one through the rigging. I have a terrible feeling that if we don't heave to He's going to hull us.
ReplyDeleteWe've got the volcano that rose after Krakatoa coming to life, the second volcano in Iceland, Katla, belching smoke which may lead to third and largest volcano in the string erupting. We've got a record hurricane season shaping up in the Gulf threatening to carry oil drenched rains inland, potentially destroying fresh water supplies hundreds of miles from the Gulf.
Wars, rumors of wars, famine and pestilence.
If we don't turn to God NOW we are lost.
Yet, while all of this is open to see most don't.