If you don’t like oil spills or pollution, don’t use oil. Simple. Don’t drive, don’t use plastics, don’t fly, don’t tar roads or roofs etc. Easy. Oh, but wait, don’t these things account for 99.9% of the American lifestyle of consumption and consumer products?
Oh, well. I guess the highly disciplined American public will do the right thing for the planet, eh?
@GreatGungHolio ... The clue was at the end .. think baby, think. The bomb scared the world, but people are getting comfy again knowing the fallout outweighs the benefit of using it as a means of self cleansing the species. Do you honestly think An intelligent community will save your sorry arse when it no longer requires a human workforce, and has the means to leap forward as a species? The selection day is coming so make yourself useful. You think we felt bad about "sorting out" the neandertal
@timmysgonnagetcha : ) I hear that, without oil and the petrochemical inputs to farming, the world would only sustain <1billion. Fun times lie ahead.
@GreatGungHolio Easy to say... I bough some roasted seaweed once and it came in a 27 plastic plates, within 27 plastic envelopes within one larger plastic envelope within a carton box... You know, I will not mind having to cut it by myself (anyway, I finished to use a knife anyway). I'm willing to make effort, I use some bag made out of tissues maybe 80% of the time, I take the city bus all the time... But, some companies are really making it hard.
As well as nuclear accidents taught us to make safer nuclear plants, this should teach us to make safer drills.
All this needs is a safety lock on tip of each drill that would close the pipe if anything happens. I'm not saying it's easy or cheap but I'm sure it's possible. I don't know if they have something similar down there or not but if they do it's apparently not working - and therefore needs to be improved.
CDK007 you are missing the more disturbing underlying issue here and that is that the so called accidental leak was in reality a deliberate sabotage. Why? Well ask yourself Cui Bono? All you logical scientific types need to really start using your skepticism that you value so much.
the us has lots of desert area that could easily and relativly cheaply be exploited for solar power.
throw some molten salt reactors into the mix with there quick on of potential and you have a green renewable power source then just go electic batteris and fule cells can give you the sam performance today as petrol if you invest and build the infrastructure.. which isent that expensive...
certaily not compared to starting wars over oil...
if all that oil is leaking - then there is obviously a huge abundance of oil in this well - and oil is used to make gasoline - so why are gas prices at the service stations between $2.00 and $3.00 a gallon? There is no shortage of oil - so how come gas is so expensive? why are they robbing us like that? am i the only one on earth who can recognize this?
@NewbBOSS How do you go from "there's a lot of oil leaking" to "there must be more oil than we need"? The reality is we're running out of oil a lot faster than is commonly known; not that it's a conspiracy, the facts of how much oil remains is not even disputed. What is not reported is that if you do some fairly simple math using current levels of consumption and growth, the end is not that far off. If we had $15/gal gas, maybe people would wake to how serious the problem is.
The Government & (Oil Companies) deny, global warming, so they can get rich & make their economies grow.
However, the "fear" about global warming & oil shortage is useful, as they then use this to make you *think* there isn't any oil, and if there is, we should limit supply. (Note *supply* not *demand*).
You then have world Markets, who use this fear, as *speculation*, to drive prices further, so they can short sell, when it hit's a peek.
More electric cars, investigate and develop safer nuclear power plants, investigate and develop wind power. What the fuck are we rushing with the drilling anyway? The oil isn't going anywhere until used (unless you spill it). Humanity I'm guessing is hoping to be around for more than just a hundred years. There will hopefully be plenty of time to use up all the oil we've been "blessed" with. Now we drill like there's no tomorrow (or like oil grows on trees).
BP is merely trying to supply YOUR demand. To lump the blame on BP is the ultimate in both projection and scape goating. Try a bit of introspection ....... Think about it.
@OnlyCreationism By lying to regulators. If they couldn't drill there, supply would go down, the price would go up, and they would continue to make money. The reason the do drill there, is because everyone else is. Competition drives production up.
I'm not saying MMS doesn't hold blame, but BP lied about the spill impact and their cleanup capabilities, just like they continue to lie about the nature of the spill going on right now. Hence the video.
@cdk007 Both can be considered to be fully guilty: the company causing the spill, and the people saying that it was good for them to drill there. For two people to be convicted of murder, there don't need to be two bodies. The MMS failed and BP failed. If other companies involved claimed the valve was secure, then they failed too. And all should be punished.
OnlyCreationism isn't saying it is wrong to blame BP, he's saying it's wrong to solely blame BP. And in that, I'll have to agree with him.
@philip1201 Fair point. I agree as well. However, there are different degrees of blame. For example, if a person is driving recklessly and speeding and causes an accident we can all agree they are to blame. Now should we also blame the cops who never policed that road or set up speed traps? Should we blame the DMV clerk who didn't notice that person cheated on their drivers test? Yes, but to a different degree.
@cdk007 The competition is driven by demand of oil, which, through corruption of society, is what the general population is born into thinking is a "real" demand.
This horrific tragedy SHOULD be more than enough to put BP out of business and make this completely illegal. We live in a sick world where all we think about is money and ourselves. This will affect the world long term, no doubt about that. This is clearly a slaughter of millions of animals... but I guess it doesn't count since they are not homosapiens. Drill baby drill...
@superduperjew, There is nothing wrong with drilling for oil offshore IF they ensure there won't be accidents and are prepared if there is one. Making them pay for all damages and a super high fine should be enough to ensure this doesn't happen again.
The oil plumes are probably an oil-water emulsion, kind of like a "crude-oil mayonnaise"? If BP get fined $20 billion or whatever, it just means they get to extend their credit line on Wall Street by $20 billion. To pay for the credit line they just lower their operating standards farther, cut corners, cut jobs or whatever, thus increasing the risk of another disaster. Good luck with the peer review--we all need that:)
Rush Limbaugh's solution(No lie): "Don't waste time with the oil, it's natural like the sea water, it'll go away on it's own." Conservative logic, gives us many reasons to laugh, but seriously this spill is a disaster.
I fear what would happen if such a spill were to happen in any of the Great Lakes, which according to Wikipedia contain about 22% of the world's surface fresh water.
Clearly you are upset by the massive and disastrous oil gush into the Gulf, because you presented no evidence for the vastness of the quantities of oil in underwater plumes. And even if there are overall vast quantities underwater , the dilution still makes a difference because it's much less harmful when dilute - "the dose makes the poison". Not your usual thoughtful approach to subjects.
@Joffan7 I'd suggest you watch the video again then. I see you subscribe to "Dilution is the solution to pollution". Question is, at what concentration will dissolved oil kill marine life. That I will admit I don't know the answer to.
Thanks, I really appreciate your vids. I'm curious though, what is expected to happen to the spill when some hurricanes come through, as is likely to be the case. As I understand it, hurricanes mix the water in the gulf all the way down to the ocean floor. Wouldn't they disperse the plumes and mix them pretty evenly throughout the gulf, possibly turning the whole gulf into a "dead zone" and possibly depositing tons of oil onto the coastal regions?
This oil spill is without doubt a disaster of huge proportions. It is the unacceptable consequence of our dependence on fossil fuel. However, all traces will have been degraded in 10 years. In 20 years there will be no evidence remaining at all! Now, consider the consequences of a nuclear reactor meltdown. Think half-life of the relative fallouts. If it’s a straight vote, I go for oil every time. Sorry folks.
@Films4You Actually, that's 6 months profit. Add that to the $20 billion in the escrow currently being set up, and the $2 billion spent to date to clean up the oil and stop the leak, that has yet to be stopped, and you start getting to some pretty significant amounts for BP.
Look at all these birds and animal life dying, suffering, wondering why this is happening.. They're helpless. Reality is truly disgusting. Happiness is such a delusion ... Reality = Sadness.
1:06 "well Merideth it may be down to how you define what a plume is". NO sir, you do not get to use that line. Bill Clinton used that line in the 90s when he to was backed into a corner and caught in a lie with his famous question,"can you define the word is?" Which I personally thought was genius. The difference is that Bill Clintons lie affected his marriage and your lie affects the ENTIRE PLANET!!!! Stop lying and start fixing!
The sad thing is, even after the Gulf of Mexico is engulfed by black liquid death, BP has never wanted to "stop" the leak (or they would have by now), they only care about capping it so they can harvest the rest of the oil and make a profit later (somehow).
Exxon Valdez was an unheeded wake up call and now the Gulf is the price we must pay for our continued greed, hubris and insolence. Even after this, people still haven't learned.
Fucking crooks! Obama would seize that company and put adults in charge if that pile of shit in the White House actually had a fucking back bone and wasn't a god damned fucking Bush #3 traitor!
Lenin? Maybe Goebbels will be more appropriate for the future: "Lenin? Maybe Goebbels for future: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Every time someone makes unproven statement it is excellent point to compare him to some unpopular political figure, isn't it?
Sarah Palin? What does she have to do with anything?
I can understand that You are concern about current oil spill, but by adding this 3 things You are loosing lot of respect
@faolitaruna Actually, while people attribute that quote to Goebbels, there is no evidence he ever said it. Lenin on the other hand is directly quoted as saying what I included in the video.
OK, CDK007 I've just needed to re-watch Your video "Cost of War", where You tried to send a message about 11.09.2001 attacks and Global War on Terror. You dealt with that without pointing fingers and name calling.
British Petroleum? Really? I could assume You are just repeating after somebody, but it is anti-British and false labelling meant to cause hate against foreigners.
@Leonis1989 Why not. Solar charges batteries which the vehicles use to run. Better yet, solar makes hydrogen (from water) that the vehicles use to run.
@cdk007 - You're suggesting a fully stocked emergency vehicle should be run on solar panels?
Most ambulances have interior/exterior lighting, radio's, ramps, camera's, air con, network computers, medical equipment etc all attached and each vehicle has to be fully charged at all times. How are you going to generate enough electricity? Not forgetting battery powered vehicles have shorter ranges and less performance.
I think that this catastrophe is a sky avenge from USA.Frequently,USA escaped treaties supposed to limit environmental pollution being covetous for more factory exports.France & Netherland are more active in this regard.
I have no problem with anything you said cdk except BP is called 'BP' not 'british petroleum'. Since 2001 after mergers with various non British oil companies, it was renamed BP reflecting its multinational status.
BP are not special or unusual; they are typical of the scum that rule this planet. It's about power and money and the rest is just an annoyance to them. Anyone else feel like puking?
thinking. I like that. so try this line of thought: there is no substance on earth with the useful potential energy of petroleum. the entire global economy runs on petroleum products, from high end inputs like gasoline to low end outputs like plastics. so why don't we stop this hypocrisy, wake up, and smell the plain truth: the world needs oil. to get it, we must drill. sometimes there will be accidents. this cannot be completely avoided.
stop polluting the world with your smug hypocrisy.
@rmessenger Perhaps. Perhaps not. But no matter how many safety measures we impose, accidents will happen. They are tragic and expensive, but that level of risk is the price we pay for modern society. Let's not pretend that if it weren't for big bad oil companies everything would be fine. Saying that we shouldn't drill for oil is naive, hypocritical, and foolish.
@littlebier8 This was caused by negligence on the part of a company that is an industry leader in safety violations. While most other corporations in this business had somewhere between one and eight, BP had SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY. Source: abcnews.go.com/WN/bps-dismal-safety-record/story?id=10763042
There is no wiggle room here. BP is a big bad oil company, and anyone who defends them is morally bankrupt.
Moreover, we could have weaned ourselves off of oil a long time ago. But the petroleum lobby worked hard to keep us out of the renewable energy game, and far too many politicians were glad to take their money. Remember that prick Reagan ripping the solar cells off the White House roof? It's because of greed and stubbornness that we're now in a situation where we need to engage in risky practices like this, and it's time to make getting off fossil fuels a top priority.
I'll try not to make any unfair assumptions about your user name, but I never SAID it wasn't BP's fault. BP appears to have been grossly negligent. I never said anything about British Petroleum period. I said, let's stop the bullshit hypocrisy of ranting against all oil drilling.
@ginganz13 Transocean is more international company, than American one.
Cement casing was placed there only days before fire.
Structural fractures in lining of the well seems most plausible cause of disaster for my unprofessional eye, which explains why efforts to close the well from above didn't work.
I'm sorry, but I have to play the devils advocate here.
it wasnt BPs fault that there is a huge oil spill.
here's why.
Large companies like BP do not do much of the drilling themselves, they hire other companies to do it for them, unfortunately American petrochemical companies have a rather... shoddy reputation (see Apache's handling of the Western Australian gas explosion, seriously they are a bunch of cowboys)
Tl:dr it was the workers on the oil rig who are at fault here.
@AustralianPyro BP applied for permits and accepted responsibility. Depending on how the investigation turns out, it could be that this is just a small possibility with all rigs and was not due to any (unusual) negligence.
I kinda want to go vandalise some BP signs to say BS
Spillage of petroleum over sea can be compared to spilling of "blood menses" of a married woman.When that woman get pregnant,menses' blood is "retained" to feed the foetus.That means that menses' blood is not her sustenance.Similarly,spilled oil is not man's sustenace.It may benefit some Algae or far away gully.
I hope this is a lesson to finally push us to utilize more efficient forms of energy, like solar and wind, instead of labeling anyone who wants to do so as a Tree Hugging Hippy.
BP probably will declare itself bankrupt and only a few people will see any money, the management will have to fear the least anyway, they'll all walk off to new jobs with their pockets filled to the brim, like nothing ever happened.
@flazgo Whether or not they "wanted this" is irrelevant. That is why they are absolutely liable ("absolute liability" is a legal term), as all environmental polluters are. The risk they take on is in order to reap the benefit. If they committed criminal actions, they are criminally liable as well. (And there are civil suits for those who suffer loss.)
But, there is no way to make up for this with money. Drilling operates outside the acceptable "safe zone" of activity, and is unnecessary.
@flazgo BP drilled the hole, therefore BP are responsible for anything that can go wrong with said hole. You seem to think that oil is never ending and is somehow the saviour of mankind, it is niether of these things. Oil is the new opium, the west is horribly addicted to it and it's going to be the cause for massive wars in the near future if an alternative source of energy is not found. You may think I'm exaggerating here, but in truth I'm really not.
They didn't want this? They clearly thought that the risk of this happening was minimal enough to cut corners when it came to safety. They didn't WANT it to happen, they weren't sitting in their offices cackling like witches to destroy the environment... but they sure as shit didn't care about the risk.
And don't worry, we'll be out of oil soon enough, hopefully in your fucking lifetime.
Also pathetic ... the 27 people who disliked like this that I assume did so because of the reference to sarah palin. Republican/Democrat aside she is dead wrong about offshore drill baby drilling and should be called on it.
This is fucking pathetic we already had fish issues with overfishing now who knows when this iwll end and what it will do to fishing and fish prices.
The platform destruction was done by left-wing anti-drilling liberals. It's an inside conspiracy much like the WTC was a a govrenment inside job so we could go to war. They wanted to stop future offshore drilling, so the new govrenment blew up an off shore drill to prove what a disaster it will be.
Evidence? I have as much evidence for this as I do for the govrenment conspiracy for the fall of the WTC's.
What about having Sarah Palin to do a porno, sell it on DVD and get the money directly to get some high speed rotation separator to clean up the freaking place? Like that we could say f*** miss Alaska, we are cleaning the place!
@tetleydidley Exactly, and before that they were known as BP Amoco Plc, but you don't see anyone calling them "Amoco". Rhetoric or not, it is perfectly understandable that some people took exception to these remarks.
@tetleydidley Yeah I noticed that after this catastrophe BP didn't just become "british petrolium", they became "BRITISH (large pause ....) petroleum".
Good video. However, ITS BP NOT BRITISH PETROLIUM. The name was changed to BP in 2000 with the slogan 'beyond petroleum' as it is no longer predominantly British owned and run. Half the directors are from the US. Get the basics right please. It is quite anoying that you state the wrong name several times.
I live in a country that was able to kill most of it´s jewish population and that of europe. What are 3000 people in a skyscraper to that. The holocaust was a conspiracy. Many germans denied it after the war. Do you?
"if only Hitler had known" some say even today. They believe Hitler did not know about it. That is stupid.
Am i to believe Cheney, CIA, FBI etc. did not know in advance? Maybe Sarah Palin did not know.
@SillyCyban A lot of people depend on their cars and it's a very big problem - other big problem are prices of electric cars and ofcourse their production depends on oil to. I just don't see a way out - it just bothers me when I see protestors waving signs...it doesn't help and it's not a solution...that kind of approach to this problem it's fucking stupid.
Low concentration plumes are nothing to worry about. Thousands of barrels of oil are released daily in natural seeps. The environment is well equipped to deal with the oil.
One major problem with this video is the deliberate repition of "British Petroleum". That name seems to have suddenly resurfaced now BP have screwed up, and it is a very dirty trick being played by the powers that be within the USA to plant the subconscious thought within american citizens that the problem was caused by a british company, and that america isnt actually at fault or to blame. The company is actually more an american company than a british company.
Just to add I only point this out as not to be pedantic, but to say I am quite disapointed that you have used this name in your video, knowing your are by far smart enough to not be sucked into these political games. Other than that the video itself was excellent as always, I would just propose you remake the video and exclude any use of the name "British Petroleum" knowing that the name is only being used by politicians and the media for deceptive and dishonest reasons
Better than I would have called them. I would have settled for Anglo-Iranian oil company.
rambythezombie 6 months ago
If you don’t like oil spills or pollution, don’t use oil. Simple. Don’t drive, don’t use plastics, don’t fly, don’t tar roads or roofs etc. Easy. Oh, but wait, don’t these things account for 99.9% of the American lifestyle of consumption and consumer products?
Oh, well. I guess the highly disciplined American public will do the right thing for the planet, eh?
GreatGungHolio 1 year ago
@GreatGungHolio ... The clue was at the end .. think baby, think. The bomb scared the world, but people are getting comfy again knowing the fallout outweighs the benefit of using it as a means of self cleansing the species. Do you honestly think An intelligent community will save your sorry arse when it no longer requires a human workforce, and has the means to leap forward as a species? The selection day is coming so make yourself useful. You think we felt bad about "sorting out" the neandertal
timmysgonnagetcha 1 year ago
Only joking. Im sure the Planet will be able to provide for an infinite population. BAAHAHAA
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GreatGungHolio 1 year ago
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@timmysgonnagetcha : ) I hear that, without oil and the petrochemical inputs to farming, the world would only sustain <1billion. Fun times lie ahead.
GreatGungHolio 1 year ago
@timmysgonnagetcha Oh look a social darwinist in the internet, How original and edgy.
DINDRAGON 2 months ago
@GreatGungHolio Easy to say... I bough some roasted seaweed once and it came in a 27 plastic plates, within 27 plastic envelopes within one larger plastic envelope within a carton box... You know, I will not mind having to cut it by myself (anyway, I finished to use a knife anyway). I'm willing to make effort, I use some bag made out of tissues maybe 80% of the time, I take the city bus all the time... But, some companies are really making it hard.
therrydicule 1 week ago
lol you say "wuter" like my grandma
darris321 1 year ago
excellent choice of musik
OpiatedBliss 1 year ago
@OpiatedBliss Midnight sonata, I think I got to know that music when I played resident evil years ago.
emancoy 1 year ago
There's actually enough oil to last hundreds of years, and enough gas in the ice caps to last thousands of years.
Don't get me wrong.
I don't deny global warming. In fact, the methane I speak of in the permafrost is about to give GW a steroid injection, as the permafrost melts.
Spinprovisation 1 year ago
I research on daily bases all aspects of bp oil spill. This video is excellent. Thanks I'll spread the vid to my ppl. Thank you
triggaOne2000 1 year ago
I've thought of an analogy for this:
The sky is a very large place, and we only find very small concentrations of water clouds, therefor, we shouldn't be worried about flooding.
Well... Yea, we should.
mynameisdarthtater 1 year ago
As well as nuclear accidents taught us to make safer nuclear plants, this should teach us to make safer drills.
All this needs is a safety lock on tip of each drill that would close the pipe if anything happens. I'm not saying it's easy or cheap but I'm sure it's possible. I don't know if they have something similar down there or not but if they do it's apparently not working - and therefore needs to be improved.
I don't see an option in not drilling.
kasuha 1 year ago
CDK007 you are missing the more disturbing underlying issue here and that is that the so called accidental leak was in reality a deliberate sabotage. Why? Well ask yourself Cui Bono? All you logical scientific types need to really start using your skepticism that you value so much.
canaan1967 1 year ago
wtf is a plume. is it like my vileplume?
El3ctricPenguin 1 year ago
@El3ctricPenguin Yes, it is! But no poke-e-ball can contain this plume...
MalchikBlue 1 year ago
the us has lots of desert area that could easily and relativly cheaply be exploited for solar power.
throw some molten salt reactors into the mix with there quick on of potential and you have a green renewable power source then just go electic batteris and fule cells can give you the sam performance today as petrol if you invest and build the infrastructure.. which isent that expensive...
certaily not compared to starting wars over oil...
ZerqTM 1 year ago
did u no that this samething happend 30 years ago same company diffrent name same ideas to stop it same every thing
halojam2202 1 year ago
if all that oil is leaking - then there is obviously a huge abundance of oil in this well - and oil is used to make gasoline - so why are gas prices at the service stations between $2.00 and $3.00 a gallon? There is no shortage of oil - so how come gas is so expensive? why are they robbing us like that? am i the only one on earth who can recognize this?
NewbBOSS 1 year ago
@NewbBOSS The amount of oil we consume as a nation and world dwarfs even this well. It just goes to show how dependent we truly are.
cdk007 1 year ago
@NewbBOSS How do you go from "there's a lot of oil leaking" to "there must be more oil than we need"? The reality is we're running out of oil a lot faster than is commonly known; not that it's a conspiracy, the facts of how much oil remains is not even disputed. What is not reported is that if you do some fairly simple math using current levels of consumption and growth, the end is not that far off. If we had $15/gal gas, maybe people would wake to how serious the problem is.
tml4873 1 year ago
@NewbBOSS
2 words, Speculation & Fear.
The Government & (Oil Companies) deny, global warming, so they can get rich & make their economies grow.
However, the "fear" about global warming & oil shortage is useful, as they then use this to make you *think* there isn't any oil, and if there is, we should limit supply. (Note *supply* not *demand*).
You then have world Markets, who use this fear, as *speculation*, to drive prices further, so they can short sell, when it hit's a peek.
Spinprovisation 1 year ago
More electric cars, investigate and develop safer nuclear power plants, investigate and develop wind power. What the fuck are we rushing with the drilling anyway? The oil isn't going anywhere until used (unless you spill it). Humanity I'm guessing is hoping to be around for more than just a hundred years. There will hopefully be plenty of time to use up all the oil we've been "blessed" with. Now we drill like there's no tomorrow (or like oil grows on trees).
Censeo 1 year ago
BP is merely trying to supply YOUR demand. To lump the blame on BP is the ultimate in both projection and scape goating. Try a bit of introspection ....... Think about it.
OnlyCreationism 1 year ago
@OnlyCreationism
blame rape victim much?
kk207 1 year ago
@OnlyCreationism By lying to regulators. If they couldn't drill there, supply would go down, the price would go up, and they would continue to make money. The reason the do drill there, is because everyone else is. Competition drives production up.
I'm not saying MMS doesn't hold blame, but BP lied about the spill impact and their cleanup capabilities, just like they continue to lie about the nature of the spill going on right now. Hence the video.
Sorry, but your argument fails.
cdk007 1 year ago
@cdk007 Both can be considered to be fully guilty: the company causing the spill, and the people saying that it was good for them to drill there. For two people to be convicted of murder, there don't need to be two bodies. The MMS failed and BP failed. If other companies involved claimed the valve was secure, then they failed too. And all should be punished.
OnlyCreationism isn't saying it is wrong to blame BP, he's saying it's wrong to solely blame BP. And in that, I'll have to agree with him.
philip1201 1 year ago
@philip1201 Fair point. I agree as well. However, there are different degrees of blame. For example, if a person is driving recklessly and speeding and causes an accident we can all agree they are to blame. Now should we also blame the cops who never policed that road or set up speed traps? Should we blame the DMV clerk who didn't notice that person cheated on their drivers test? Yes, but to a different degree.
cdk007 1 year ago
@cdk007 I'm enjoying the analogies.
48997765 1 year ago
@cdk007 The competition is driven by demand of oil, which, through corruption of society, is what the general population is born into thinking is a "real" demand.
48997765 1 year ago
This horrific tragedy SHOULD be more than enough to put BP out of business and make this completely illegal. We live in a sick world where all we think about is money and ourselves. This will affect the world long term, no doubt about that. This is clearly a slaughter of millions of animals... but I guess it doesn't count since they are not homosapiens. Drill baby drill...
superduperjew 1 year ago
@superduperjew, There is nothing wrong with drilling for oil offshore IF they ensure there won't be accidents and are prepared if there is one. Making them pay for all damages and a super high fine should be enough to ensure this doesn't happen again.
Houshalter 1 year ago
The oil plumes are probably an oil-water emulsion, kind of like a "crude-oil mayonnaise"? If BP get fined $20 billion or whatever, it just means they get to extend their credit line on Wall Street by $20 billion. To pay for the credit line they just lower their operating standards farther, cut corners, cut jobs or whatever, thus increasing the risk of another disaster. Good luck with the peer review--we all need that:)
sciencemobster 1 year ago
Rush Limbaugh's solution(No lie): "Don't waste time with the oil, it's natural like the sea water, it'll go away on it's own." Conservative logic, gives us many reasons to laugh, but seriously this spill is a disaster.
AdmiralCasey18 1 year ago
@AdmiralCasey18
Its the same logic with global warming, CO2 emission? Who cares, nature will take care of it, man made CO2 is such a small amount etc etc etc.
kk207 1 year ago
@kk207 So true, so true. Denial of problems and getting people to believe you is the best problem-solving many congressmen do.
AdmiralCasey18 1 year ago
I always love your videos. Thank you for putting them out and making us 'Think About It'.
ticisgreat 1 year ago
Excellent vid, good luck with the papers. In what journals are you looking to publish?
tsumui 1 year ago
This BP thing is such a staged event. And, cdk007 is a staged person with a staged life. Go away.
theDracoIX 1 year ago
@theDracoIX Tinfoil hat anyone???
cdk007 1 year ago
@cdk007 Blood drinking parasite anyone???
theDracoIX 1 year ago
@cdk007 Blood drinking parasite anyone???
theDracoIX 1 year ago
@theDracoIX staged or not, now the south of the US is full of shit.
"Drill baby drill!" S. Palin
7omnia7 1 year ago
@theDracoIX Alex Jones?
HybridD91 1 year ago
I fear what would happen if such a spill were to happen in any of the Great Lakes, which according to Wikipedia contain about 22% of the world's surface fresh water.
scythiconatron 1 year ago
Clearly you are upset by the massive and disastrous oil gush into the Gulf, because you presented no evidence for the vastness of the quantities of oil in underwater plumes. And even if there are overall vast quantities underwater , the dilution still makes a difference because it's much less harmful when dilute - "the dose makes the poison". Not your usual thoughtful approach to subjects.
Joffan7 1 year ago
@Joffan7 I'd suggest you watch the video again then. I see you subscribe to "Dilution is the solution to pollution". Question is, at what concentration will dissolved oil kill marine life. That I will admit I don't know the answer to.
cdk007 1 year ago
"Drill Baby Drill" I <3 Sarah Palin. She's not the brightest, but she's sooooo my type. =)
ENez0 1 year ago
Thanks, I really appreciate your vids. I'm curious though, what is expected to happen to the spill when some hurricanes come through, as is likely to be the case. As I understand it, hurricanes mix the water in the gulf all the way down to the ocean floor. Wouldn't they disperse the plumes and mix them pretty evenly throughout the gulf, possibly turning the whole gulf into a "dead zone" and possibly depositing tons of oil onto the coastal regions?
jj79tr 1 year ago
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This oil spill is without doubt a disaster of huge proportions. It is the unacceptable consequence of our dependence on fossil fuel. However, all traces will have been degraded in 10 years. In 20 years there will be no evidence remaining at all! Now, consider the consequences of a nuclear reactor meltdown. Think half-life of the relative fallouts. If it’s a straight vote, I go for oil every time. Sorry folks.
FLUSEM666 1 year ago
$12,000,000,000 is small change to B.P.
Films4You 1 year ago
@Films4You Actually, that's 6 months profit. Add that to the $20 billion in the escrow currently being set up, and the $2 billion spent to date to clean up the oil and stop the leak, that has yet to be stopped, and you start getting to some pretty significant amounts for BP.
cdk007 1 year ago
Love your videos. Keep up the good work!
bimlala1 1 year ago
Seeing the birds covered in oil makes my heart ache... There is so much innocent life suffering from this spill.
rsrproductions 1 year ago
America used to be a British province, ergo America's problems belong to the British.
FoShoryuken 1 year ago
Look at all these birds and animal life dying, suffering, wondering why this is happening.. They're helpless. Reality is truly disgusting. Happiness is such a delusion ... Reality = Sadness.
sushiyama1 1 year ago
safety violations in the last 5 years.
Exon mobil: 1
conocophillips: 8
sunoco: 8
BP: 760.
responsible company?
803brando 1 year ago
1:06 "well Merideth it may be down to how you define what a plume is". NO sir, you do not get to use that line. Bill Clinton used that line in the 90s when he to was backed into a corner and caught in a lie with his famous question,"can you define the word is?" Which I personally thought was genius. The difference is that Bill Clintons lie affected his marriage and your lie affects the ENTIRE PLANET!!!! Stop lying and start fixing!
bandaid7777 1 year ago
I have a great solution to this disaster! Take all the US forces that are fighting wars in Iraq, and
Afghanistan and move that resource to save the motherland, Country needs you!!
We are fighting wars for other nations which dont appriciate anything!! Its time to
declare war on this OIL disaster!!!
rob2049 1 year ago
The sad thing is, even after the Gulf of Mexico is engulfed by black liquid death, BP has never wanted to "stop" the leak (or they would have by now), they only care about capping it so they can harvest the rest of the oil and make a profit later (somehow).
Exxon Valdez was an unheeded wake up call and now the Gulf is the price we must pay for our continued greed, hubris and insolence. Even after this, people still haven't learned.
I've lost hope in humanity.
TheHomelessCripple 1 year ago
Bloody PB!
BTW does anyone know what's the music called?
thecake90 1 year ago
@thecake90
Beethoven - Moonlight Sonata
Pulsar89 1 year ago
@Pulsar89
Thx man ^^
thecake90 1 year ago
The background song was a little cliche, but otherwise, good video.
ProtagonistNonTheist 1 year ago
Fucking crooks! Obama would seize that company and put adults in charge if that pile of shit in the White House actually had a fucking back bone and wasn't a god damned fucking Bush #3 traitor!
NotSoOldHippy 1 year ago
@NotSoOldHippy yeah, we need a dictator not a president...typical.
darnokish 1 year ago
Thank you.
NuyBard 1 year ago
Lenin? Maybe Goebbels will be more appropriate for the future: "Lenin? Maybe Goebbels for future: “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it."
Every time someone makes unproven statement it is excellent point to compare him to some unpopular political figure, isn't it?
Sarah Palin? What does she have to do with anything?
I can understand that You are concern about current oil spill, but by adding this 3 things You are loosing lot of respect
faolitaruna 1 year ago
@faolitaruna Actually, while people attribute that quote to Goebbels, there is no evidence he ever said it. Lenin on the other hand is directly quoted as saying what I included in the video.
cdk007 1 year ago
@cdk007 Today I've learned something new.
faolitaruna 1 year ago
OK, CDK007 I've just needed to re-watch Your video "Cost of War", where You tried to send a message about 11.09.2001 attacks and Global War on Terror. You dealt with that without pointing fingers and name calling.
British Petroleum? Really? I could assume You are just repeating after somebody, but it is anti-British and false labelling meant to cause hate against foreigners.
faolitaruna 1 year ago
@faolitaruna
Hate against foreigners.... wow. You are a fail.
garrettducat 1 year ago
This is all true and fair enough and what not. But I think some people need to Google "bhopal".
markoos88 1 year ago
@ChaosDynamics Kind of dickish don't you think.
cdk007 1 year ago
well done my friend.
rsronetube16 1 year ago
@ChaosDynamics - Doubt it.
But ambulances, fire trucks, planes carrying medical equipment to poverty countries, police cars etc can't use solar panels.
Leonis1989 1 year ago
@Leonis1989 Why not. Solar charges batteries which the vehicles use to run. Better yet, solar makes hydrogen (from water) that the vehicles use to run.
cdk007 1 year ago
@cdk007 - You're suggesting a fully stocked emergency vehicle should be run on solar panels?
Most ambulances have interior/exterior lighting, radio's, ramps, camera's, air con, network computers, medical equipment etc all attached and each vehicle has to be fully charged at all times. How are you going to generate enough electricity? Not forgetting battery powered vehicles have shorter ranges and less performance.
Leonis1989 1 year ago
@cdk007 I think that in the case of an ambulances or a bus, it is quit the reverse since there is more place for panels.
therrydicule 1 year ago
Funny how they keep calling it BRITISH petroleum when it hasn't been owned by the British for a decade, its all owned by US.
Andy167 1 year ago
@ChaosDynamics - And I'm sure you aren't complaining when you fill up your fuel tank for a long haul drive.
Leonis1989 1 year ago
once again an excellent video
1imax111 1 year ago
I think that this catastrophe is a sky avenge from USA.Frequently,USA escaped treaties supposed to limit environmental pollution being covetous for more factory exports.France & Netherland are more active in this regard.
owleyesofcancer 1 year ago
Underwater oil plumes hold vast quantities of oil.
Princess Diana was alive hours before she died.
LeLimeLine 1 year ago
@LeLimeLine
He's exposing BP's use of the term low concentration to downplay the severity of the oil plumes. It's not redundant to say it in that context.
YouGottaFaxe 1 year ago
Meh, BP better make me a new planet, without the oil and the rest of you wankers! :p
GronTheMighty 1 year ago
I have no problem with anything you said cdk except BP is called 'BP' not 'british petroleum'. Since 2001 after mergers with various non British oil companies, it was renamed BP reflecting its multinational status.
WhichDoctor1 1 year ago
The mainstream media is forgetting already, and moving on to more serious matters, like the World Cup.
intigfx 1 year ago
If they could, they would convince you that the entire oil spill is a myth.
socialgarbage2 1 year ago
@socialgarbage2
Im pretty surprised there havent been any bible thumpers yet blaming all the gay people for this.
YumeNoEien 1 year ago
How's that "Drill baby drill" thingy going for ya Sarah?
WishingForSerenity 1 year ago
BP are not special or unusual; they are typical of the scum that rule this planet. It's about power and money and the rest is just an annoyance to them. Anyone else feel like puking?
rollsthepaul 1 year ago
Send the fucking company bankrupt
Oddessuss 1 year ago
And now what can one do to stop this? Can't people pressure them to fix that?
mollie2810 1 year ago
@mollie2810
It is not that simple.
A well spewing oil into water a mile below the surface must have enormous pressure to overcome the pressure of the water down there.
This has never happened and therefore nobody ever bothered to find a fix for it.
Ever since this started they have tried to invent one solution after the other and nothing has completely fixed it yet.
And trust me... BP is pressured to fix this nightmare for their company, they just try to make it look "not that bad".
WishingForSerenity 1 year ago
thinking. I like that. so try this line of thought: there is no substance on earth with the useful potential energy of petroleum. the entire global economy runs on petroleum products, from high end inputs like gasoline to low end outputs like plastics. so why don't we stop this hypocrisy, wake up, and smell the plain truth: the world needs oil. to get it, we must drill. sometimes there will be accidents. this cannot be completely avoided.
stop polluting the world with your smug hypocrisy.
littlebier8 1 year ago
@littlebier8 Perhaps. But using proper safety measures would have prevented this.
rmessenger 1 year ago
@rmessenger Perhaps. Perhaps not. But no matter how many safety measures we impose, accidents will happen. They are tragic and expensive, but that level of risk is the price we pay for modern society. Let's not pretend that if it weren't for big bad oil companies everything would be fine. Saying that we shouldn't drill for oil is naive, hypocritical, and foolish.
littlebier8 1 year ago
@littlebier8 This was caused by negligence on the part of a company that is an industry leader in safety violations. While most other corporations in this business had somewhere between one and eight, BP had SEVEN HUNDRED AND SIXTY. Source: abcnews.go.com/WN/bps-dismal-safety-record/story?id=10763042
There is no wiggle room here. BP is a big bad oil company, and anyone who defends them is morally bankrupt.
wrongheadedfool 1 year ago
Moreover, we could have weaned ourselves off of oil a long time ago. But the petroleum lobby worked hard to keep us out of the renewable energy game, and far too many politicians were glad to take their money. Remember that prick Reagan ripping the solar cells off the White House roof? It's because of greed and stubbornness that we're now in a situation where we need to engage in risky practices like this, and it's time to make getting off fossil fuels a top priority.
wrongheadedfool 1 year ago
@wrongheadedfool
I'll try not to make any unfair assumptions about your user name, but I never SAID it wasn't BP's fault. BP appears to have been grossly negligent. I never said anything about British Petroleum period. I said, let's stop the bullshit hypocrisy of ranting against all oil drilling.
littlebier8 1 year ago
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littlebier8 1 year ago
I hate BP, their symbol screws with my eyes.
Quionic7 1 year ago
Watching 2:42... I've never been this ashamed of being a human.
kossmikham 1 year ago
He is so going to be fired.
Quionic7 1 year ago
@superman000000 Opec is not a compagny... It is an organized cartel.
therrydicule 1 year ago
Facts stated about only ONE member of a culpable group is indiscernable from opinion.
95% of the rig workers didn't work for BP
BP held a 65% share in the well, Anadarko (Texas) held 25%
The rig was owned and operated by an American Transocean
The failed blowout preventer was American Made
American regulation of these operations is among the loosest there is
The cement work was by Haliburton
EXXON only paid 1/10th of their original fines
BP is not british - it is 60% overseas owned
ginganz13 1 year ago
@ginganz13 Transocean is more international company, than American one.
Cement casing was placed there only days before fire.
Structural fractures in lining of the well seems most plausible cause of disaster for my unprofessional eye, which explains why efforts to close the well from above didn't work.
faolitaruna 1 year ago
Many people's jobs require a car; many more could easily get by on a damn bicycle. I commute by bike and I don't find it to be at all inconvenient.
JaredHutcheson1 1 year ago
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Libertarianist 1 year ago
I'm sorry, but I have to play the devils advocate here.
it wasnt BPs fault that there is a huge oil spill.
here's why.
Large companies like BP do not do much of the drilling themselves, they hire other companies to do it for them, unfortunately American petrochemical companies have a rather... shoddy reputation (see Apache's handling of the Western Australian gas explosion, seriously they are a bunch of cowboys)
Tl:dr it was the workers on the oil rig who are at fault here.
AustralianPyro 1 year ago
@AustralianPyro BP applied for permits and accepted responsibility. Depending on how the investigation turns out, it could be that this is just a small possibility with all rigs and was not due to any (unusual) negligence.
I kinda want to go vandalise some BP signs to say BS
willowtreephoto 1 year ago
fuck BP.
AcanLord 1 year ago
Just as CDK said "Think Baby think", one of the low energy bulbs in my ceiling light went out ... maybe it's symbolic??
mandolinic 1 year ago
*packing my escape pod for another planet*
They should be punished or forced to clean that mess, if it's possible.
qbz32 1 year ago
Spillage of petroleum over sea can be compared to spilling of "blood menses" of a married woman.When that woman get pregnant,menses' blood is "retained" to feed the foetus.That means that menses' blood is not her sustenance.Similarly,spilled oil is not man's sustenace.It may benefit some Algae or far away gully.
owleyesofcancer 1 year ago
I like that moonlight sonata was in the background.
buddhafreek88 1 year ago
@buddhafreek88 Yep - first movement.
Alisterwolf66 1 year ago
@Alisterwolf66 At least 100% of videos on youtube should have Moonlight Sonata in it.
buddhafreek88 1 year ago
I hope this is a lesson to finally push us to utilize more efficient forms of energy, like solar and wind, instead of labeling anyone who wants to do so as a Tree Hugging Hippy.
danigurrl26 1 year ago
BP isn't called British Petroleum any more.
Leonis1989 1 year ago
Solar Energy(Photovoltaic) never sounded so good.
Leeroy002 1 year ago
More like "bill baby bill". If that is true they need to receive that fine of 12 billion
dawncampbell666 1 year ago
Apocalyptic? Isn't that a bit of overreaction?
rationalargument 1 year ago
Untruth coming from a corporate entity? Ignoring scientific research? Lies coming from the television? I'm shocked.
RiverOfConsciousness 1 year ago
I'm curious how you've reacted to Rachel Maddow, since you've taken a stab at the media. She's been on this oil disaster like flies on shit.
Deioth 1 year ago
BP probably will declare itself bankrupt and only a few people will see any money, the management will have to fear the least anyway, they'll all walk off to new jobs with their pockets filled to the brim, like nothing ever happened.
DeletedDelusion 1 year ago
Stop crying it's not bps fault they didnt want this did they, and without oil we'd all be fucked stop chatting shit about not drilling you hippie
flazgo 1 year ago
@flazgo Whether or not they "wanted this" is irrelevant. That is why they are absolutely liable ("absolute liability" is a legal term), as all environmental polluters are. The risk they take on is in order to reap the benefit. If they committed criminal actions, they are criminally liable as well. (And there are civil suits for those who suffer loss.)
But, there is no way to make up for this with money. Drilling operates outside the acceptable "safe zone" of activity, and is unnecessary.
AtheistdotEDU 1 year ago
@flazgo BP drilled the hole, therefore BP are responsible for anything that can go wrong with said hole. You seem to think that oil is never ending and is somehow the saviour of mankind, it is niether of these things. Oil is the new opium, the west is horribly addicted to it and it's going to be the cause for massive wars in the near future if an alternative source of energy is not found. You may think I'm exaggerating here, but in truth I'm really not.
elsparx 1 year ago
@flazgo
They didn't want this? They clearly thought that the risk of this happening was minimal enough to cut corners when it came to safety. They didn't WANT it to happen, they weren't sitting in their offices cackling like witches to destroy the environment... but they sure as shit didn't care about the risk.
And don't worry, we'll be out of oil soon enough, hopefully in your fucking lifetime.
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hackerrr8 1 year ago
Think baby think. If there was never an example of how petrolium products are killing life on this planet, there's one for ya.
CGW129 1 year ago
I´m really sorry for those animals,we humans are f***ing crazy,we´re killing the whole world.
MITHWORLD1 1 year ago
@MITHWORLD1
Never a truer phrase said Mithworld1.
NatureWasFirst 1 year ago
Pathetic ...
Also pathetic ... the 27 people who disliked like this that I assume did so because of the reference to sarah palin. Republican/Democrat aside she is dead wrong about offshore drill baby drilling and should be called on it.
This is fucking pathetic we already had fish issues with overfishing now who knows when this iwll end and what it will do to fishing and fish prices.
lordtalon69 1 year ago
It's nice to have you back, cdk007.
TucoBenedictoPax 1 year ago
What music is playing in the background
jhohen03 1 year ago
@jhohen03 Moonlight Sonata -- Beethoven
Jonm1211 1 year ago
Who the fuck thumb this video down and why?
DebateCreation 1 year ago
The platform destruction was done by left-wing anti-drilling liberals. It's an inside conspiracy much like the WTC was a a govrenment inside job so we could go to war. They wanted to stop future offshore drilling, so the new govrenment blew up an off shore drill to prove what a disaster it will be.
Evidence? I have as much evidence for this as I do for the govrenment conspiracy for the fall of the WTC's.
kronksworld 1 year ago
What about having Sarah Palin to do a porno, sell it on DVD and get the money directly to get some high speed rotation separator to clean up the freaking place? Like that we could say f*** miss Alaska, we are cleaning the place!
therrydicule 1 year ago
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TucoBenedictoPax 1 year ago
sarah palin is a dumb cunt
HeroDanny 1 year ago
Sarah Palin said this was like totally safe. And she's an energy expert.
How could reality get it so wrong?
Richardgwm 1 year ago
i'm sad now
oggleman 1 year ago
Thinking? Nah, that's never going to catch on :)
morganbath 1 year ago
Why do you keep referring it as "british petroleum"?? They changed their name to BP and only 33% of their shares are actually owned by Brits!
tetleydidley 1 year ago
@tetleydidley Exactly, and before that they were known as BP Amoco Plc, but you don't see anyone calling them "Amoco". Rhetoric or not, it is perfectly understandable that some people took exception to these remarks.
angryafghan 1 year ago
@tetleydidley Yeah I noticed that after this catastrophe BP didn't just become "british petrolium", they became "BRITISH (large pause ....) petroleum".
morganbath 1 year ago
@morganbath apparently the Anglo-IRANIAN (large pause) oil company is destroying our environments.
Xorinite 1 year ago
Good video. However, ITS BP NOT BRITISH PETROLIUM. The name was changed to BP in 2000 with the slogan 'beyond petroleum' as it is no longer predominantly British owned and run. Half the directors are from the US. Get the basics right please. It is quite anoying that you state the wrong name several times.
chillingonthefence 1 year ago
@chillingonthefence dont criticize him for saying what he thought was the arconym when you cant even spell petroleum.
rly2good 1 year ago
Shit happens
SlightlyItchy 1 year ago
It´s the same lying media machine that sold us the theory that WTC1,2&7 "collapsed" because of two planes hitting them. lol
They lie if they want to expand their territories, They = .com . mil and .gov
Look what they found in Afghanistan. Minerals! Drill, Baby drill. Kill, baby kill
Possible truth:
9/11 = inside job (Cheney et. al.)
human caused climate change = true
oil industry = ruthless killers
Obama is a double talking fake, but Mc Cain would have been worse.
Sahrah Palin is dumb shit.
pcuimac 1 year ago
@pcuimac You do you really think that 9/11 was done by the US government? That is f**king stupid.
ProudtobePagan 1 year ago
@ProudtobePagan Don't try to reason with Twoofers. They'll call you a "paid shill" if you disagree with them in any way.
759009946576 1 year ago
@ProudtobePagan
I live in a country that was able to kill most of it´s jewish population and that of europe. What are 3000 people in a skyscraper to that. The holocaust was a conspiracy. Many germans denied it after the war. Do you?
"if only Hitler had known" some say even today. They believe Hitler did not know about it. That is stupid.
Am i to believe Cheney, CIA, FBI etc. did not know in advance? Maybe Sarah Palin did not know.
pcuimac 1 year ago
@pcuimac stop spreading your stupidity and go research these opinions you psychopathic nutcase
evilsceptic 1 year ago
Think baby think!!!! How about you all stop driving cars? How about that? It's very simple.Consumers have control, remember that.
Rusvi1 1 year ago
@Rusvi1 I'd love to, but my livelihood depends on driving a car. Thats how they get you. I'm of course an advocate for alternate clean fuel for cars.
SillyCyban 1 year ago
@SillyCyban A lot of people depend on their cars and it's a very big problem - other big problem are prices of electric cars and ofcourse their production depends on oil to. I just don't see a way out - it just bothers me when I see protestors waving signs...it doesn't help and it's not a solution...that kind of approach to this problem it's fucking stupid.
Rusvi1 1 year ago
the plumes most likely come from the chemicals they dumped into the water to "neutralize" the oil. this was the stupidest idea ever
Cromwell523 1 year ago
BP should be destroyed, their assets seized and their company's leaders arrested.
Enough with this soft crap. Toss these fuckers in jail, take all their money and use that in the cleanup effort.
Shavarnarak 1 year ago
Low concentration plumes are nothing to worry about. Thousands of barrels of oil are released daily in natural seeps. The environment is well equipped to deal with the oil.
OnlyCreationism 1 year ago
One major problem with this video is the deliberate repition of "British Petroleum". That name seems to have suddenly resurfaced now BP have screwed up, and it is a very dirty trick being played by the powers that be within the USA to plant the subconscious thought within american citizens that the problem was caused by a british company, and that america isnt actually at fault or to blame. The company is actually more an american company than a british company.
coolhandmart 1 year ago
Just to add I only point this out as not to be pedantic, but to say I am quite disapointed that you have used this name in your video, knowing your are by far smart enough to not be sucked into these political games. Other than that the video itself was excellent as always, I would just propose you remake the video and exclude any use of the name "British Petroleum" knowing that the name is only being used by politicians and the media for deceptive and dishonest reasons
coolhandmart 1 year ago