This is VERY amazing my Science teacher told us about it  Congress needs to quit sitting around talking about the oil spill and go out and work to clean it up. We, the taxpayers, pay them and they need to stop the hearings, that has accoplished not one drop of oil cleaned up and go out and get the oil cleaned up. There are millions of unemployed people, put them to work, better yet make them work for their unemployment money.  I will never buy gas at BP again. They are a bunch of incompetent fools. I suggest others consider doing the same.  I know of a bilge pump thats available to use .Will anybody try it? (www.ForsOilRecovery.com). I have nothing to gain by the use of this..I' am a commercial fisherman here in Oregon, and I've seen it work. Somebody needs to take a look at this.I've called people out there at my own expense..hoping somebody will just take a look at it, Don't wait for BP start cleaning up. This picks up the oil but leaves the water.  Why isn’t the oil being sucked up by big machines or something? It seems like several methods have been developed to clean up the water are not being used. What are they waiting for? ...a hurricane?  My proposal is: insert a pipe into the ruptured pipe with the pressure of a full pipe and a smaller diameter than the ruptured pipe where the pressure can be controlled from the ship above. By doing this and releasing the pressure of what you are using now you will fill the gap between the 2 pipes which will enable the well to be capped from above.  The amount of oil is not worth talking about. We all know it has ruined the gulf for a long time. Why didn't the government let a barrier be built to stop the oil from going to the beaches? The governor of LA wanted to do this.  Also how many engineers are in the MMS? It looks to me like they are all a bunch of deal maker bankers. The government has lots of smart engineers in their employ – of course some of them are in the war areas helping out other people when we need them here. Get with the program. The other countries can wait.  Now everyone is screaming for the government to jump into the oil meaa....last month they were screaming for the goverment to stay out of healthcare and their lives.......you can't have it both ways  I could be way off on this, but if the leak is coming from a hole in a pipe... Then could they not simply place an adjustable sleeve on the pipe and then slide it over the break, tightening it once it is in place? Hey it works on hoses and pvc pipes on a small scale, why not on a large scale??  I have been exploring the idea of using high pressured, highly concentrated liquid nitrogen to stop or slow down the leaks in the Gulf of Mexico so engineers could go down and fix the leaks. This process would consist of inserting hollow tubes inside the holes. These tubes would be connected to high pressure hoses to force the nitrogen into the pipes causing the oil to coagulate inside of the housing where the leaks are spewing from. I feel that this crisis is not only a concern for the people of the Gulf region, but covers every corner of the U.S.A. This idea I have just presented is a true testimony of how loyal my patriotism is to this country and crisis. Please give my idea a thought. Thank you, and God bless America.  This is/was not a 'spill'. Exxon Valdez was a spill. This is not a parallel. It's a disaster all right, but was it preventable and was it BP's fault? Let's wait for the verdict.; then draw our conclusions. Obama is talking real tough on this one, but, he talks tough a lot and very seldom follows through. He's all sound bite and no actual bite. Wait and watch. This will be a good test  I grew up near Lake Charles, Louisiana. I saw Rep. Melancon this morning crying and I started crying. Louisiana is (or was) truly sportsmans paradise and B.P. should be put out of business. All the money in the world can't give people back what they have ruined.  Can we stop calling this the "BP Oil Spill"? This is not a 'spill'. You spill a glass of milk. Oil is gushing out of the earth and is not stopping on it's own. Let's call it the "BP Oil Gusher".  Absolutely disaster I cannot believe the mess out there more so i cant believe that it hasnt been capped yet.You would think they would have take safety measures to avoid or be ready for such emergencies.  Is there any way they can capture the oil that has escaped and refine it? That would help us to not need foreign oil,. Is that a dumb question?  Hats off to all of those who had negitive comments,about not trusting and being left to die.Saw the presidents speech their moving now!!  My comment is that I have a solution to the gulf problem the MUDD will not stop the flow. I have a solution for the initial issue with the fixing of the piping and of the oil spill as well as the cleanup process that will need to take place after that has be rectified. Should anyone with authority in this matter would like to speak with me about these solutions that are environmentally safe and cost effective please contact me via email. This is a horrific situation that can be solved fairly quickly and safely. Thank you.  that is the worst thing that could happend to us right now  The following is what I found while looking at MMS website. How stupid are these people? Mary Landry is a senator. Duh!!!!  Update: The Ongoing Administration-Wide Response to the Deepwater BP Oil Spill WED, MAY 26, 2010 Federal On-Scene Coordinator Rear Admiral Mary Landry has granted approval for BP to begin proceeding with their attempt to cap the well using the technique known as the “top kill.” Read More >  Why is BP suspending the "Top Kill" process? They must see a problem in this process and they appear to be hiding something.  We need several government officials on site to monitor this process at all times.  Also, if they have stopped pumping mud for a 16 hour time lapse then wouldn't that mud that was pumped in have time to escape out?  Since the day of the blow out, I do not understand why there was not an immediate response by surrounding the area with a foatable berm or boom? It is truly sad to see how inept the United States is in not being prepared for something like this. When the rig was on fire, it would have seem logical that an immediate response should have been to have dispatched with a boom that could have easily encircled the area may a mile or two in radius. Once the rig sunk, we should have enough data to understand where the oil would be located as it moved toward the surface of the Gulf Waters. To the best I can tell, we still are not capturing the oil being discharged from the well. It seems crazy that we are waiting until the oil migrates, spreads out and encompasses a huge area before trying to capture and/or stop it with booms. The thought that this government simply said it was BP's problem rather than have an immediate response by all resources of the the U.S. Government is like telling a homeowner to put out your own house fire rather than sending a fire truck. The United States Government should have had an immediate response and then looked to BP to reimburse the government. If nothing else, why don't we at least locate where the oil is surfacing now and capture what we can and then at the same time try to mop up what has already been disbursed throughout the Gulf?  How can the President talk about 2 YEARS from now about the oil spill when he's not doing anything today to take care of it today and embrace the people of the region and insure they're going to be alright? where is the justice in procrastination?  I am disgusted with James Carville and others faulting President Obama for 1/ not being emotional when he talked about the oil crisis 2/ his failure to take over stopping the gush from BP 3/ wanting a federal takeover of states' handling of off-shore and on-shore protection 4/ Obama's finding out the hard way that the federal bureaucracy supposedly monitoring off-shore oil drilling was as faulty as SEC monitoring of Wall Street, and I fear you could go on ad infinitum through not only the US bureaucracy but also American business. Yes, the private sector.  We, like our education system from pre-K through at least the MA, do not do good work. We are sloppy, in efficient, non-caring, etc.  So people in the office supposedly monitoring off-shore drilling were, like those supposedly monitoring Wall Street, watching porn on their taxpayer-provided computers.  Yes, Obama should have known more about how well or how poorly his agency charged with monitoring off-shore drilling were performing. He didn't. He suffers for that.  Similarly, BP obviously does not know how to stop this gush. Why would Republicans, who continue to fight against government involvement in solving problems of all sorts, start faulting Obama for not aking over solving this business-created problem? Obama and the US federal government do NOT have the knowledge and equipment to get into the Gulf and stop this leak.  What bothers me most about CNN's coverage is letting these fools bleat constantly that the President is "not emotional" when he talks about solving the many problems related to this business-caused problem. I want him and everyone under his command to use all their gray matter, there best education, their best contacts, whatever all can muster, to solve this intellectually, scientifically.  Let Maitlin and Carville emote, along with your too-many emoters who like to shrill opinion. I want solid scientific information; I want clear, direct information on what is being done now, what we know now, what we do not know.  It is the job of the news media to not be fear mongers. We are supposed to give information, delivered in a way that explains and leads to understanding.  Please keep that in mind when you put on those fools who want emotion.  These BP guys are as slick as the oil on top of the water. You can bet they probably have a plan for the failure of the current operation to plug the well and put the cap on so they can keep taking oil. They have a lot of lost revenue they're going to have to recover and they won't get it fast enough by just charging the little guy more for what they have.... They will want all they can get their hands on.  We have no more time to decide who is responsible for this clean up.. Anyone and everyone are responsible citizens of the EARTH.. Stop the Blame.. start the action.. Just DO SOMETHING!!!!!  What will be the effect of pumping all this mud into the bottow of the ocean? And, don't forget how many terrorists are watching this folly and plotting to cause another explosion somewhere else...  I would like to know how long the President, Congress and the News Media has worked in the Oil Field? What gives you the right to tell all the Gas, Oil and other teams that are working in the Gulf HOW TO DO THEIR JOBS!! If you have not had a problem like this before- do you not think it might take a little while to figure this out? We have some of the best Oil and Gas People in the Gulf from all over the US trying to figure out how to get this Oil Spill under control. THIS HAS NEVER HAPPENED BEFORE- MUCH LESS A MILE UNDER THE WATER. I support your efforts and coming from a large Oil and Gas Basin in New Mexico, WE HAVE FAITH IN OUR MEN!! God Bless the 11 that lost their lives- That the News, President or Congress forgets to Mention  BP is lying. The other day, the TV feed of the leak showed the end of the pipe; one hole. Now there are 4 holes and they want us to believe it is the drilling mud. They have clearly ruptured the pipe and when they force cement into it, this will be a disaster of colossal proportions. When they started drilling, they had to have had an idea what the reserve was in that undersea oil cavity. That's what they want us to believe when the oil companies show all the animated technologies identifying reserves. How much oil could conceivably leak out? Is this a planet killer?  SO it looks like BP was lying to us all. All those advertisements on TV and the certifications from Green coorporation about their small carbon footprint etc. were purchased with donations. Now what is new about this? BP lied to us, Toyota lied to us, ING lied to us, Freddie and Mac lied to us.. GOldman Sachs, Enron, Adelphia, and the list goes on.. ALL OF THEM LIED TO us the poor foolish public. When will we understand that coorporates lie.. that is their business. They lie to create the impression that they are helping the country, creating jobs etc. when actually the only thing they are concerned about is making the bucks. I hope we can put up leaders who have the guts to take companies to task rather than catering to their every wish, tax cuts etc and sacrificing the public interest. We should trust the government, since they are the only people who have the public interest in mind. Don't elect politicians who support corporates over the people..  They can at less clamp or bend the pipe for now first.  As far as clean up.... before i'd use dog hair... or human hair... i'd absorb the oil with tons and tons of cotton... thousands upon thousands layers of cotton.... just a thought...  Here's my idea for a fix: Get some big boulders from the Rocky Mtns in Colorado & drop them into the holes to plug up the holes. Then, use the plastic beverage (recyclable) bottles to suck up the oil. They are light & so they will float on top of the sludge & then all people concerned can then collect the bottles filled up with the spewed oil.  Why aren't Plan B's required for all of the wells being approved by our government? It seems that about everything that is done like drilling oil wells or digging coal mines that might affect the environment in some way (like millions of gallons of crude being distributed all over the Gulf of California) requires an approved Environmental Impact Report (EIR). The possibility of a blown out oil well in the Gulf, 5000 ft. below the water surface, seems to not have been considered. If it had been there would have been a requirement for approved Plan Bs for every well out there! Obviously if there was a requirement for approval of Plan Bs there should be a requirement to test them under realistic conditions (using a clean substitute for crude oil of course). If this had been a requirement before drilling on any wells began, there's a good chance that first, no wells would have been drilled because no Plan Bs would work or second, that the plan would have been implemented and worked and we wouldn't be experiencing this catastrophe.  We have too much government in a lot of cases but in this case having an approved and validated EIR for the blown out well might well have spared this disaster!  oil is leaking from a pipe a lot lot like a leaking artery why not attack it like such and use a "stent" type plug like a cardiologist would for an angiogram? an angio stent is a pipe with a balloon on the end, the balloon can be filled with water and oil can then be taken out thru the pipe until it can be plugged.  Dasaster oreparedness is to be taken seroiusely whether one occures or never. It is a general assumption that a disaster will never occure in many ventures.  It is wise to take Safety Precautions in any undertaking. This is a big lesson for all in the world to learn including U.S.A.  I worked in the oil field when I was younger both on land and I worked derrick's offshore for a year and a half and I know that when you are drilling and you have a sudden loss of drilling mud you imediatley have a problem and then when the mud start's coming back up the drilling pipe you really have a problem and it is time to shut it down as fast as possible.Each rig has a toolpusher who is over the rig but you also have a company man who the toolpusher answer's to,so you have two people who are in charge and in this case the toolpusher would have told the company man who by the way is a BP employee about what was going on and the BP man should have told the toolpusher to shut the well in.What we need to know is what was said and who's decision it was to keep going which was a huge mistake.  This is NOT the worst oil spill - at least not yet. The worst oil spill occurred in New York City. It began in the early 1950s along the Newtown Creek, between Brooklyn and Queens. The spill is estimated at 30 to 50 million gallons.  Since that spill occurred over many years, and is the result of leakage from storage tanks, it doesn't make great television, so people aren't talking about it.  This spill has never been cleaned up; Newtown Creek is being considered for EPA Superfund status.  In our city if people do not mow their lawns after awhile the city comes in and mows the lawn and then chargers the homeowner for it.......why doesn't the government step in and take over the efforts to stop the oil spill and clean up the environment...then bill BP for it!  My husband has worked for BP, formerly Amoco Oil, for over 30 years. The oil business has always been risky. You always know there is going to be an accident, you just don't know when. Since the explosion at our plant there have been so many changes to ensure the safety of the workers. My husband is not company. He is union. Today's plants are so much safer than they were 10, 20, 30 years ago. I love my gulf and I am sorry for the lives lost, but until this is over, no one knows exactly where blame is due. I find it odd that usually where there is an accident, there are always contractors. I do know one thing though, when Bp says they will cover the costs, they will. I see it all the time.  If BP can shoot golf balls and mud into a pipe at 5000 ft in an ocean atmosphere of 2200 PSI..... why can't they insert an inflatable rubber/neoprene plug to shut down the flow temporarily.  I don't understand why there are no Navy oil skimmers in the marshes picking up as much oil as they can.... if they are there, we need to see it on the news. The oil could be off-laoded into a freighter.  Following the shut down and cleanup of this mess, the upper echelon BP folks need to answer for being aware of inoperable safety devices..... it is criminal to risk our national resouces for the profits of an oil company, especially when they are owned off-shore! The board of directors took the risk.... time for them to pay up.  Congress, the Senate and each involved agency needs to answer for their greed also. If a Congressman, Senator or Bureau Director has accepted 'corporate oil' gifts above the state and federal gift acceptance guidelines, they should be suspended from office. That would cure our DC problem...... they would all be replaced! We need our government back, run with some form of integrity.  I understand the magnitude of this disaster and my heart goes out the the people of the Gulf area. The problem I have is the American people want cheap gas and at the same time don't want to have to worry about any chance of a catastrophe like this happening. In a perfect world that might happen. I personally think this should and could have been prevented. I also think that BP isn't just sitting on their hands. It appears to me that they are trying to fix the problem.  Who does BP think they are, and where is the government? This is a national disaster and we should treat it as such. If the government can not set up a committee because they don't have the expertise or the knowledge it seems simple that they could tap into the resources from the experts and get going. Trusting BP is not an option at this point and as I listen to the story they seem to project an arrogance that is insulting to me. They are not bigger then the United States but seems to believe they are and we are allowing them to get away with that attitude. Aside from the wildlife, peoples livelihood is being impacted and my prayers go out to them.  If we collect 99% of the oil being spilled – then bp can take time to kill the well.  asap strart to build a "oil collection ring" flotation miles in diameter which has large booms with deep aprons that zipper together as they extend below the surface (this happens physically as aprons on modules are zipped) and capture the rising oil leak – which is continually pumped into tankers/barges – circumvent first ring with a second and so on as needed.  Do not use any dispersant – pump out water seperation from collected oil.  Someone told me that BP is actually owned by the Iranians, yet keeping the BP name. If this is true, wouldn't this be concidered environmental terrorism? Does anyone know this to be a fact. Is this something the press should check into?  A thick,long, wide mattress-like layer of materials , more absorbent on the bottom side ,less on the top,and outer edges, fitted over the pipe, then more layers above and around that, then building upward in a pyramid fashion with mud, concrete, rock, make the distance shorter between the spill and water's surface,may contain the oil at least for a while . The shorter the distance, the easier it will be to cap.  I am simply amazed how many of our news reporters have hidden their talents about how to plug an oil well and want the US governement to plug it for BP. If you like the way Social Security is run then this would be a stragety. I bet this doesn't get read on CNN.  Since the government doesn't seem to have the money for skimmers and more booms..... they have Aid concerts for everything else, why not have an Aid concert for help the Nations Wetlands?
Watch CNN's American Morning on Friday as Kiran Chetry reports on the Gulf Coast oil spill from Grand Isle, Louisiana. (Photos: Getty Images and Michael Humphrey/CNN) (CNN) - The Gulf of Mexico undersea gusher has already spilled more oil than the Exxon Valdez disaster -- possibly more than twi...