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BP official: 'We've significantly cut the flow' [changed his mind]

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BP oil spill slowing, Florida lawmakers claim | pnj.com | Pensacola News Journal
Key Congressional representatives from Florida and Alabama said today that BP is making progress in cutting the flow of oil from its damaged Deepwater Horizon rig in the Gulf of Mexico.

"We have some good news: The leak is being restrained," said U.S. Senator George Lemieux, R. Fla. "BP thinks they are reducing the flow, so we very hopeful about that. But I can't say enough about what a huge threat this is to our way of life in Florida."But late Monday BP issued a news release contradicting Lemieux's assertion.


"BP would like to clarify that, contrary to some media reports, the actions it has taken to date on the blow out preventer have not resulted in any observed reduction in the rate of flow of oil from the MC252 well," the news release said.
Lemieux joined Alabama senators Richard Shelby and Jeff Sessions and U.S. Representative Jeff Miller at a 2 p.m. press conference at Mobile Regional Airport.
The four officials had just returned from an aerial survey of the massive oil slick, now off the coast of Louisiana and Mississippi.


"Everything that can be done is being done," Miller said. "And we are asking BP to put money in an escrow fund so local governments, if possible, can draw upon it." Miller said the escrow fund was needed because many local governments are having to dip into their reserve funds to spend money for the disaster.
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Maybe Charlie can suggest to BP that they offer an $.85 per gallon at the pump price for gasoline in all gulf coast counties for the next 5 or 6 years.:cool:
 
Nope, cheap gas has been keeping our MPG and our demand for alternative energy sources low for decades.

Most of the alternative energy projects we have right now were started a couple years ago when gas prices & demand spiked and they could justify the higher costs.

As recently as the drilling symposium in Sowal earlier this year, the oil company rep poo-pooed solar power projects as elitist and impractical because of the initially higher cost per kilowatt hour.

Bet it isn't looking so $$ now! :angry:
 
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