No relief coming from BP's mounting failures

Because of the fact that virtually nothing BP has tried or said has worked or proven to be truthful, I wonder if some government agency is making worst-case contingency plans to stop the oil? Who is to say that relief wells, the alleged ultimate fix scheduled for later this summer, will solve the problem in the Gulf of Mexico?

Here is something to ponder. If approximately 32 percent of the Gulf of Mexico has already been closed to fishing in just under two months, wouldn't that mean that after six months the gulf will be more or less destroyed by the crude oil? Logic tells me that the oil will begin to work its way into the Caribbean and eventually into the Atlantic Ocean. In a year, most of the eastern waterways, including fresh-water rivers, bays and inlets, will have been contaminated by BP's spill.

There is enough oil in Deepwater Horizon well to flow for decades

Extend the doomsday scenario out to the end of, oh, say 2012, and most of the planet will have been impacted by this gusher. Clean water will become a rare commodity. Economies will collapse, particularly in small countries like the Dominican Republic, which rely heavily on tourism. Many animals will go extinct and human beings will get sick or die from exposure to the oil. It's not too far-fetched to believe that wars will ignite in the quest for clean water, something that has been suggested even before this latest environmental disaster.

Is it too far-fetched to believe in a snow-balling effect that will lead us to the brink? What evidence is there to lead anyone to think that this gusher will be capped this summer or even this year? If the technology existed to stop it, wouldn't it have been sealed by now?

The relief well (there are actually two being drilled, one as a backup) is just another theory of how to stop the flow. But it's never been proven at this depth. It's not a guaranteed end, despite what BP claims.

Our government seems to be placing too much faith in BP.

Our founding fathers warned of the dangers of corporations having too much power within our democracy. They saw large corporations as potential threats to our country, and many of the causes of our economic woes are certainly proof that the founders were correct. I bet, however, they never envisioned a corporation having the power to destroy the planet as we know it.

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