BP started Top Kill Procedure on Wednesday

[Sargent_Schultz]

You're right Sgt Schultz. It is costing them lots and lots of money. Unfortunately, this will be passed onto the consumer in the near future. The oil company's main goal is to make money for their investors and so far, with this massive leak, they have lost a ginormous amount of money. I'm sure the exact amount is being recorded each day. Get ready people to take the hit for this multi-billion dollar lost. We might have to find part-time jobs just to buy gas!

 

Doubtful. BP is not the only oil company on the planet and the competition won't have those costs to try to pass on to consumers. In addition, BP's reputation has been damaged and they are going to have to work on that.

 

Where the consumer will be hit is with any new (or enforced) regulations that wold be applicable to all.

[RVman]

They need to drill down to 18,000 ft - that takes a while even going 24/7 (which they do anyway). Plus they actually have to hit a very small target.

 

The salmon catch in Alaska has actually been better in the years since the Valdez that it was in the same number of years prior.

 

Go figure.

 

That may be true but the huge schools of whirling herring that fed both fishermen and animals have not returned

[smd1234]

They are a british company THEY DONT CARE!

 

I hate break it to you, but BP does not own 100% of the working interest in the well AND there ARE U.S. companies involved. The one I work for is based in Houston and has a 25% working interest.

 

This spill is an unprecedented event. BP is working with their peers and using all of the technology available to them to stop the leak.

 

It's a freakin disaster and all parties involved are doing their best to deal with it.

[futaba951]

The execs of BP, Trans Ocean and Haliburton should be made to suit up and get out in a boat and help mop up the oil. Well, the Haliburton guys maybe forced to go on a hunting trip with Dick Cheney. :)

[Sargent_Schultz]

That may be true but the huge schools of whirling herring that fed both fishermen and animals have not returned

 

because of viral erythrocytic necrosis (VEN) - and not limited to the geographic area where the Exxon Valdez was.