Guard watches coast for oil slick's first wave

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Originally Posted by CRedskinsRule

Maybe not, but with the right motivation the private sector very often finds a workable solution. In this case, clearly with govt support, there are several motivating factors for a private sector oil leader to come up with a solution. 1) if a company makes a breakthrough and finds a creative, effective way to end this, they get HIGH Publicity and advertising capital for their company. 2) if the solution is patent-able, they could make a profit by their design. 3) the company that stops it, if BP were to throw up their hands, would have an upper hand in the foreseeable future of deep sea drilling.

IF, and I don't believe this will be the case, it goes unstopped till August, this will be the equivalent to deepsea drilling that 3-Mile island was to Nuclear energy in this country.

It seems there are a lot of arm-chair deep sea engineers around these days. The problem isn't so trivial...if anyone had a solution you don't think BP itself would have contract them? Also, this is a time sensitive issue so no one is going to stick their neck out just because they "think" they have a solution. Plus no one wants their name mentioned in a liability lawsuit.

Anywho, as it stands this problem is being "solved" by BP and its silent partners including Exxon Mobile.