Comments on: BP Oil Well Will Be Capped By Monday https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/ Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:16:45 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.6 By: casey https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520455 Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:16:45 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520455 Greg,

I bit and checked out what that comment @1 is and that’s just spam/irrelevant self promotion.

It’s just a person who is involved in Amway who is complaining that it is not fair. I think it’s pretty safe to delete.

In other news, thanks for this post, it was really informative, and actually quite frightening. Somehow I think that as the problem drifts ever closer to the wealthy areas of the east coast we’ll see ever increasing speed in dealing with this issue.

]]> By: rob https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520454 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:45:06 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520454 better fly down to florida and do some scuba diving RIGHT NOW or miss your chance.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520453 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 17:26:28 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520453 Dave, thanks for the clarification, I believe you are correct. And, of course, what this means (as you say) is that the scenario depicted here ia not especially unlikely.

]]> By: Dave https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520452 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 16:18:43 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520452 As I understand the simulation, they assumed the spill would continue from April to September rather than a full year. The effects of the oil from the 5 month release of oil would eventually be dispersed along the eastern seaboard and Atlantic over the course of a year. September is actually a fairly realistic estimate when the well will be capped using the two relief wells. The chances they will cap the well today is about as high as the likelihood BP will go a day without making deceptive claims and telling outright lies.

]]> By: Greg Laden https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520451 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 14:10:59 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520451 WTF?

]]> By: Paladin https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520450 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 11:02:29 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520450 That’s why i come to this blog: there always are interesting comments.

]]> By: Tex https://gregladen.com/blog/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520449 Mon, 12 Jul 2010 03:10:23 +0000 http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2010/07/11/bp-oil-well-will-be-capped-by/#comment-520449 If you think Madoff ran a huge scam, Amway has ripped off millions of people for several decades, to the tune of 10s of billions of dollars.

Read about it on this website: http://thenetprofitgroup.yolasite.com and forward the information to everyone you know, so they don’t get scammed.

Amway is a scam, and here’s why: Amway pays out as little money as they can get away with, so they support the higher level IBOs ripping off their downline via the tool scam.

As a result, about 99% of IBOs operate at a net loss, while the top 1% make several TIMES more from their Amway tool scam than from the Amway products. This was made illegal in the UK in 2008, but our FTC is unable to pull their heads out of their butts to stop it here.

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