yeah i think BP is responsible, my crazy republican piano teacher also blames obama haha its fucking lame going to work and hearing her complain about it all the time

People down here on the coast are (understandably) freaking out about it. It's a pretty awful mess with no end in sight, and no one seems to have the slightest idea what to do.

I expected a reference to Oil Ocean Zone. Now I am disappointed.

There's plenty of blame to pass around. The Republicans pushed so hard for off-shore drilling they were popping capillaries (not that I disagree, as energy independence is a goal we need to work toward); Obama heard the news and sent a single man to the sight, and after his assessment still has yet to send any significant aid.

BP is fucking failing repeatedly, as they've tried several solutions, all of which didn't work as intended.

This is a debacle, and only months after Louisiana began to see real results from the Hurricane recovery effort.

It's sad to watch.

"I don't watch the televised news, as a rule. It's never been a part of my life. So, as a result, I wind up becoming aware of news only after it has been run through the cultural filter related to my hobby of choice."

Thank-you for putting into words why I never know what the fuck is going on in the world. I basically found out that the Oil leak had happened from Steamtoid.

Funny but incredibly sad at the same time.

You do realize we have better established methods for sending people to the moon than to stop an oil leak at the bottom of the ocean? What bothers me is why there aren't ten different organizations out there, circling the leak, each taking turns trying to stop it. Why JUST let BP try and deal with it?

@mattrodroid: Please teach us oh wise one. Be our leader.

@quased

YES! I agree with you 100%! Why the fuck are we leaving the wellbeing of our citizens to a singular entity that isn't a government agency?!

Yeah, that leak is INSANE. I don´t know exactly how much that leaks out every day but it´s atleast thousands of liters:P

What's sad is we had legistlation passed after the Exxon-Valdez Incident that could have staved of the spread. Instead, the government threw BP at it and then told them not to burn it off because of "climate change" - so basically they only got in the way and let it spread.

Oh, and all that legislation about creating oil booms that was revised in 1994, seems neither administration before Obama's made sure they got built after tax payer money went into it. Had about twenty fucking years between now and the Valdez incident and one of the twelve got built.

Took the White House a week to even assemble a respons, Obama had to have a nice weekend with the wife and kids - i swear this guy gets more holdays than bank tellers do.

I feel bad for the people on the coastline, while we still can't be 100% sure what caused this, the response and the repeated failures at plugging this leak is disheartening. A big part of the problem could be that 5000 feet underwater was just a little too far off the coastline for off-shore drilling to be practical. Seems because of the depth companies were made to drill at, its hard to do anything about it.

@The Silent Protagonist

"Obama had to have a nice weekend with the wife and kids - i swear this guy gets more holdays than bank tellers do."

You must not have been around during Bush Jr's administration. He spent more time on vacation than literally any president before him, and Obama would have a LOT of catching up to do if he wanted to match him.

I'm not saying this post is out of place here, because it is game related and regardless of politics, the oil spill is something that's happening.

But come on guys, lets cut the politics comments. There's other places where people can shout about dumb things Obama/Bush says/said and do/did. Politics and games isn't a peanut butter in my chocolate type of synergy, so let's cut the crap. A lot of people have have their finger prints on this oil spill disaster, so stop the finger pointing BS.

I'm more sick and tired of people trying to bitch about blame this and that before the leak is actually stopped. Tons of wasted resources which should go right now to stopping the leak and recovery efforts. Finger pointing, bitching, investigations, and lawsuits can come after that, but for now just Git 'er Done.

I didn't know it was still happening until I had to walk by one of the TVs at the hotel I work at and the news person was freaking out over it. Guess I should try to stay up on news via the internet. I'm never going to watch TV news channels though. They spew more crap than BP could ever hope to clean up.

i have a BP station down the street from my house. my car uses 93 octane , at BP it was 3.45$/G next door at the cumberland farms it was 3.10$/G same octane.

even the local mobile(which has always been over priced) was cheaper than the BP gas.

Yes, the oil will run out eventually...

...In 7+ years, they've estimated.

What a lot of people don't understand is the well was tapping into one of the biggest, if not THE biggest (from what I've read) natural gas and oil deposit ever found. You do not want this thing to leak for 7 years. It'll pump out enough oil to entirely dead-zone the Gulf of Mexico, surely. Plus currents will take it all over so who knows what else will get fucked.

This thing is probably going to leak until they drill the reserve well, many months from now. I think the soonest I've heard that they can get that done is like September.

BP dun' fucked up. Seriously, the situation is so bad that I - someone who isn't too keen on government interfering with everything - thinks that the government should just seize all of BP's US assets to pay for this shit, because seriously, right now, the way laws are...BP is going to be paying a tiny fraction of the clean-up due to disaster caps and lobbying, when they SHOULD be picking up the entire bill.

All this could've been prevented by a $500,000 part, too. Instead they'll now spend billions. Idiots.

HAHAHAHA that's great. Sure, the actual spill itself is horrible, but make it a video game, and it's the best thing ever.

Too bad Billy Mays isn't alive. He could have just used some mighty puddy and problem solved.