The Gulf Oil Nightmare

[JERRY2KONE]

Unfortunately from what I have seen and read in the AP BP is not rushing on the cleanup with all of the great ideas shown on TV for collecting the oil for one simple reason. They hope to collect as much of the oil floating on the GUlf as possible in ways that will make it a recoverable substense so they can get some level of $$$$$ out of the oil and not lose it as a waste product. BP and the US Gov are hoping that they will be able to collect the oil from the surface of GUlf waters and get it into collection containers that can then be recycled into a refinery and turned into Gas or some other form of product that can be sold, so that this money can be used to cover the cost of the clean up. Not that this is the best or fastest means for getting this mess cleaned up, but it is understandable.

The other end of this is that cleaning it up prior to actually getting the leak stopped seems sensless. Otherwise they will be cleaning and recleaning the same areas over and over and over again, which will equate to cost over runs that are also counter productive.