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   >>> STOP the oil spill NOW >>> http://bit.ly/c8y9GX

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   May 20, 2010 at 10:48 am | Report abuse |
   • gremlinman73
     

     All I got to say is Thank you all the watchdogs who were suspose to see that things were to go smooth, thank you very much. Was it the money involved that stopped you from doing your job, and I still think it was an inside job.

     May 20, 2010 at 11:15 pm | Report abuse |
   • Gary(US citizen)
     

     SOME ONE READ THIS !
     B/P prez C/O CNN; there is a liqued product that is used to fill and stop leaks in DAMS. It is injected in, when it touches water it EXPANDE to a rock hard substance.
     It will stop the leak if you inject it into the leaking well in the gulf.
     It is inexpencive so you IDIOTS would never think of it.
     NOW GO STOP THE LEAK AND STOP DESTROYING MY PLANET.

     May 23, 2010 at 7:50 pm | Report abuse |
   • Gary(US citizen)
     

     Ferminite of Houston Texas

     Hey CNN....
     DO SOMETHING

     May 23, 2010 at 7:53 pm | Report abuse |
2. sophie
   

   WHY? WHY? IS BP STILL IN CHARGE OF STOPPING THIS OIL SPILL???????????? IT`S HAS BEEN A MONTH NOW AND THE DAMAGE IS DONE!!!!!!!!! THIS HAS TOTAL RUINED THE WHOLE GULF COAST AND IT WILL NEVER, NEVER BE THE SAME, AMERICAN`S WANT TO KNOW WHY? HAS`NT OUR GOVERMENT OFFICAILS STEPPED IN TO STOP THIS DEVASTION, APPARENTLY BP CAN`T STOP IT. MAYBE IT`S TIME THE GOVERMENT SHOULD DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT NOW NOT TOMMORROW IT`S TOO LATE..THEY SHOULD HAVE DONE IT RIGHT AT THE BEGINNING THEN MAYBE WE WOULD HAVE`NT LOST OUR COAST LINE AND ALL THE FISHERMAN AND FOLKS THAT DEPEND ON THE GULF WOULD NOT BE IN THIS SITUATION.. THIS BP AND HAILBURTON, AND TRANSOCEANS MESS AND I PERSONALLY THINK THAT FROM THE VERY DAY THAT THIS OILSPILL STARTED THOSE 3 COMPANYS SHOULD HAVE TO PAY $1,000,000,000.00 A DAY EACH UNTIL THEY FIND A WAY TO CAP IT. THEY OWE LOUISANA AND ALL OF THE GULF STATES A EXPLAINTION OF WAY THIS HAS HAPPENED AND NOT TO MENTION THOSE WHO LOST THEIR LIVELYHOOD DUE TO THIS DAMN MESS THAT THEY HAVE DONE... SUCH A SAME AND SAME ON OUR GOVERMENT FOR LETTING THIS GO THIS LONG .. I AM MAD HAS HELL AND I AM SURE I AM NOT THE ONLY ONE, IT`S TIME WE NEED TO STAND UP AND SCREAM

   May 20, 2010 at 1:36 pm | Report abuse |
3. Richard
   

   I totally agree with Sophie. It's now not enough for the American people to be outraged. It is now time for everybody in the U.S. to unite and be aligned in what is now the obvious next step: Ban ALL offshore drilling in the U.S. NOW.
   Now there will always be those stubborn, hard-headed idiots who still think offshore oil drilling is safe and necessary.
   Well to those people, I say the following: Trade places with all those who live in the Gulf Oil States whose lives and livelihoods face disaster because of BP's incompetence, irresponsibility, and pure lack of ethics.

   May 20, 2010 at 3:02 pm | Report abuse |
4. DrJulieDBell
   

   One very important fact that you are not being told about the leak is that the fluid coming from the riser is not only oil. It a mixture of oil, gas and water. This is almost always the case with a gas cap drive and just basic knowledge in the oil and gas industry. I wonder if the calculations can really say how much oil is escaping in relation to fluids. I’ve tried to make this comment on other CNN articles but they seem to forge ahead in the blame game.

   Also, remember that BP is only one of the parties involved – why are you not discussing others. This is irresponsible journalism. A full investigation will reveal the truth.

   May 20, 2010 at 3:19 pm | Report abuse |
   • falconium
     

     Baloney. This is 100% BP's fault. They are a careless company and it will cost them. Now I have to avoid Exxon AND BP.

     May 20, 2010 at 11:18 pm | Report abuse |
5. Smith in Oregon
   

   May 20, 2010 at 5:31 pm | Report abuse |
6. Craig N. Barthelmas
   

   Subject: PRO-ACTIVE OIL SPILL CONTINGENCY PLAN, Dated: 10 May, 2010

   TO WHOM IT MAY CONCERN: Here’s a contingency plan that has patented technology and a process that really works.

   1. We found a pre-processed material and developed an action plan that would have extracted up to 95% of the oil spill contaminants from seeded surface waters of the Gulf of Mexico, before it hit land fall.
   2. Our product is a, “Modified Oil Spill Environmental Sponge” dubbed M.O.S.E.S., it is a ¼” to ½” product that can be used to absorb oil contaminants from both “fresh water and salt water” surface oil spills. Our tests have concluded that one ton of product will absorb 125 gallons of oil in less than one hour. Simply put it will absorb approximately one half of its weight in oil. M.O.S.E.S. collects/absorbs oil not water. After saturation M.O.S.E.S. will only contain about 1.4% water. It creates no added impact on marine life or the environment. It also poses no threat to other kinds of wildlife including humans. A fifteen minute test will prove this process works.
   3. Our plan is full circle and includes staging, seeding, re-claiming and re-processing all of the contaminated oil’s and seed materials back into re-usable fuels and commodities.
   4. Due to the urgencies to reduce the impact on the environment and the magnitude of this spill, our plan required partnering with the Coast Guard and other organizations that were already being used to provide staging, seeding and reclaim operations.
   5. Seeding operations were to be handled in essentially the same way they were being done, with minor and/or no modifications to airborne or aquatic equipment that would handle spreading ¼” to ½” particulates.
   6. Re-claim operations required the same booms, scoops, pumps and barge operations, that were being used.
   7. Re-processing operations proposed a permanent emissions free plant for processing oil, sand and other like materials into re-usable fuels and commodities. The plant would take approximately ninety to one hundred and fifty days to construct and would become a permanent part of a states fast action response to future oil spills.
   8. Our plan would have first, assisted with the on-going damage control operations in the gulf; second, it could have been put into operation within seven days; third, it would have become a $30,000,000.00 per year financial benefit to the communities that embraced staging and plant processing operations.
   9. This plan will greatly reduced the time and costs associated with this kind of oil spill in the future. We are confident that this type of pro-active plan would become a template for other high risk (oceanic) areas.
   So, why was this plan given no consideration at all? It is not a question of if another spill will happen, but when! The only excuses we have been able to come up with that, we are sure you are going to here are, as follows:
   a. BP, News Networks and Government Agencies didn’t have the time to consider a pro-active long term plan?
   b. We were crack pots when, this technology is patented and the product could be tested in fifteen minutes?
   c. BP has it under control as, they have done this before? Yes and, crazy is doing the same thing over and over again, expecting different results! We need to get past these smoke screens and prepare for future spills.
   Thank you for your time and consideration. We’d love to receive some constructive input from anyone who is listening.
   Craig N. Barthelmas, Verizon Cell: [313] 682-1428, E-Mail: GE1RE22@aol.com
   CC: BP., CNN, FOX NEWS, NOAA, Governors of: AL., FL., LA., MS., And TX

   May 20, 2010 at 5:48 pm | Report abuse |
7. Craig N. Barthelmas
   

   ATTENTION!! The PRO-ACTIVE OIL SPILL CONTINGENCY PLAN listed above will not plug oil leaks but, it will address five major problems; two of witch, are concerns that have not been addressed in the media or in the government.
   1. It truly is a LONG TERM-CONTINGENCY PLAN. It will help the community rebuild revenues while providing a fast action operational plan for future oil spills. Yes! Future oil spills will surely occur, despite future prevention efforts!
   2. This plan is full circle and would included staging, seeding, re-claiming and re-processing all of the contaminated oil’s, oil filled sands and seed materials back into re-usable fuels and commodities.
   3. It creates no added impact on marine life or the environment. It also poses no threat to humans and/or other forms of wildlife. Oil, feed stock and sand processing are near emissions free processes.
   4. It will generate $30,000,000.00 worth of new revenues for the communities that embrace staging and plant processing operations. The plant would remain in full operation after the clean-up is done.
   5. It will also add about forty new jobs to the community. This is not only a plan to help with short term clean up’s, it will also have a positive long term and lasting effect on the community as well.
   We all know that BP has been feeding us misinformation and then trying to mobilize volunteers to help minimize their cost. Yes! We sent BP and other agencies this plan. Operations of this nature have a price tag associated with them and so, it would appear that they have no wish to spend anything on spills they can’t control or that won’t go back into their pockets. The OMRS-100 technology is patented and, M.O.S.E.S. (The oil absorbent) can be tested in less than fifteen minutes!
   As always our government is seeking a short term quickie (political talk) so we can get a long term scr**ing! Has anyone mentioned where they (BP) plan to put and/or dispose of all of that contaminated; oil, sand and material? We are pretty sure that without intervention it will be in somebody’s back yard, neatly hidden from sight, killing something else. Don’t you think that any oil spill plan should at least consider: Prevention, Mobilization, Extraction and Disposal Operations?
   Thank you for your time. We would love to receive some constructive input from anyone who is as concerned as we are.
   Craig N. Barthelmas, Verizon Cell: [313] 682-1428, E-Mail: GE1RE22@aol.com

   May 20, 2010 at 5:49 pm | Report abuse |
   • wayne
     

     CRAIG, the way that we can get these oil co. to reply for the clean up is to hit them where it hurts it will not only supply jobs to the clean up it will also save our world we need to stress to congress or anybody that will listen hit where it hurts IN THE POCKET BOOKS WITH SIESURE OF ALL ASSETS OR FREEZE THEIR ASSETS AND PUT A LARGE FINE AMONGST THE THREE COMPANYS FOR EVERY DAY THAT IT CONTINUES TO LEAK OR FLOW FROM THE WELL I WILL BET THAT THEY WILL FIND A SOLUTION TO THEIR PROBLEM AND SAVE OUR OCEANS THIS SOUNDS A BIT HARSH BUT THEY KNIEW HOW MUCH OIL WOULD FLOW OUT OF THE 21 INCH LINE BEFORE THE SPILL SO WHY COULDNT THEY TELL US HOW MUCH WAS FLOWING AFTER THE ACCIDENT WHY BECAUSE THEY DIDNT WONT US TO KNOW HOW BAD THE PROBLEM IS IT DOSENT TAKE AROCKET SCIENCE TO FIGURE IT OUT THEY DONT WANT THE RESPONSIBILITY LIKE THEY SAID AT THE HEARING THEY ARE WANTING TO BLAME EACH OTHER LETS NOT FORGET ABOUT THE PEOPLE THAT WAS KILLED AND THE OTHERS THAT WAS HURT BEFORE ITS ALL OVER WITH WE AS TAX PAYERS WILL BE FOOTING THE BILL LETS PRAY FOR ALL THE INNOCENT PARTIES THAT WAS INVOLVE THANKS FOR LETTING ME VENT ABOUT THIS

     May 21, 2010 at 10:31 pm | Report abuse |
   • Craig N. Barthelmas
     

     Hi Wayne,
     Thanks for answering. The best way to help is to submitt this PRO-ACTIVE OIL SPILL CONTINGENCY PLAN to every site you can find. Maybe then somebody will notice.

     May 22, 2010 at 8:15 pm | Report abuse |
8. Dan
   

   THIS JUST IN...COWARD AZ SHERIFF LETS K9 LOOSE ON WOMAN STANDING RIGHT IN FRONT OF HIM. DOG RUNS IN OTHER DIRECTION.

   May 20, 2010 at 8:35 pm | Report abuse |
9. wayne
   

   hey why dont they start freezing BP ,TRANSCONT. AND HALIBURTION,ASSETS AND PUTA HEAVY FINE EVERYDAY THAT THE OIL IS LEAKING I BET THEY WILL FIND A CURE VERY FAST HIT THEM WHERE IT HURTS

   May 21, 2010 at 7:05 pm | Report abuse |