Oil leaking from ocean floor?
But now, for reasons that still elude me, the government has allowed BP to try to shut down the well at the top, allowing the pressure in the whole casing to rise precipitously, and it appears the inevitable has happened: the oil and gas is pushing out the breaches in the casing, and is likely expanding the openings, too, making the breach worse than before.
Trying to shut things off at the top was a fool’s errand, and can only have been driven by a BP and White House PR effort to show that something is being done. However, some things shouldn’t be done, and this is one of those things. The idea that the government and BP knew that shutting down the top of the well could lead to disaster, and that they went ahead and did it, knowing that it would only provide temporary relief at best anyhow, is insanity.</em>
Anyone who thinks BP, and by extension, we are out of the woods yet on the leak…not so fast.
