SA says:

BP waited until after Obama’s news conference to announce that the operation had been halted the previous night...

BP will not announce that a “top kill” is impossible until after Obama’s photo-op “I feel your pain” tour of the Gulf coast tomorrow. That’s why the last word from BP was it will be Friday night at the earliest before they “know” if the operation is successful. They already know it won’t work. They are just timing their revelations to curry favor with Obama.

renting_for_profit says:

Nothing has changed – the oil will continue to spew, in greater or lesser amounts, until the relief well(s) are finished – with luck, before summer is over, without luck, in the beginning of 2011.

This has been the case since the BOP failed, by the way, and is based on all the other cases of deep water wells blowing out, including in the Gulf.

Vespasian says:

I’m inclined to agree with SA’s assessment. We already know that the PR-world loves to release bad news on Friday evenings … especially on a holiday weekend.

If they cannot stop the oil and it continues to gush for months, getting sucked into the loop current (which will eventually restart), it will destroy the ecosystem of the entire east coast of the United States. I hope this post looks silly in 24 hours.

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