"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
...
> Apparently while this well is leaking, it has not failed
> entirely and if it does the scale of the leak becomes
> truly enormous.
>
> The well is "tapping second largest oilfield in the world",
> and in "the event of total wellhead failure before relief wells
> are completed in August... considering the size of the deposit,
> if BP loses control of the flow completely, the scope of the
> disaster would be unfathomable."

How can this be? I thought the world was out of oil, and that we had to all
go to solar power, and fart power, and all those expensive carbon credit
thingies AlGore was selling. You mean there's oil out there, and there's
some problem with letting the American people have it? You don't think
.............

Steve