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Politics : President Barack Obama -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: stockman_scott who wrote (76450)	5/28/2010 10:28:13 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 149317

As you can see, people don't care... 28 Mil of us hitting the road this weekend...no doubt to visit the Gulf, to complain about oil in person. Running on Empty - Video What if tomorrow, everyone’s car disappeared. A Video by Ross Ching inspired by Matt Logue’s Empty LA photographs. energycrash.blogspot.com

To: stockman_scott who wrote (76450)	5/28/2010 10:39:13 AM
From: ChinuSFO	Respond to of 149317

And here is some good piece of news to cheer us all and restore our pride in our technical abilities. Micromanaging and brooding has no place. ========================= Obama Administration Says BP Procedure is Working but Sustainability at Issue BP Operation Is Going 'Pretty Well,' CEO Tony Hayward Says By HUMA KHAN, JULIE PERCHA, MATT GUTMAN and JEFFREY KOFMAN May 28, 2010 The Obama administration today said BP's efforts to contain the oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico are working, but that the next few days will be critical in determining the success of the "top kill" procedure. U.S. Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen says the oil flow is being overcome. BP CEO Tony Hayward said on "Good Morning America" today that the cleanup operation along the Gulf coast is "going pretty well," an assessment echoed by Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is overseeing the Obama administration's response to last month's oil spill. "They've demonstrated they can do something that actually has never been done before, that's actually apply this mud 5,000 feet below the surface," Allen said. "The challenge will be to get enough down there to overwhelm the pressure that's pushing the oil up." BP's "top kill" procedure entails putting mud on the leak to stop the oil from flowing up. Allen said the challenge will be to put enough pressure on the mud to keep the organic compounds from coming up. "They have been able to stop the hydrocarbons from coming up the wellbore," he told "GMA's" George Stephanopoulos. "I think the real challenge today is going to be sustain the mud on top of the hydrocarbons and reduce the pressure to the point where they could actually put a cement plug in." Allen said the next 12 to 18 hours will be "very critical" and the real question will be whether they can sustain this effort to stop the oil from gushing into the ocean. abcnews.go.com