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Sometime in the next few days, BP says it will officially launch what it is calling a "Top Kill" operation.
Oil continues to gush from a broken pipe in the Gulf of Mexico, and, while BP, the company responsible, maintains that only 5,000 barrels are flowing into the water every day, one group of scientists thinks the leak could be dumping as much as 100,000 barrels a day.
And while BP has a list of funny-sounding solutions (dome, top hat, hot tap, junk shot), nothing has worked yet. Oil keeps gushing into the Gulf, at an unknown rate.
Jon Stewart, looking closely at the names top hat and hot tap, called BP out: “Our solution to this is to come up with anagrams?”
The Top Kill solution is meant to plug the leaking Gulf of Mexico well by injecting heavy drilling mud and cement into it. If that fails, they'll try another dome. A smaller one.
But, maybe smaller domes aren't the answer. GREENandSAVE President Charlie Szoradi thinks that ending this massive catastrophe calls for catastrophic measures. And the thinks that it's probably not a good idea to rely on the people that got us into this mess (BP) to get us out. Maybe President Obama needs to take over? Or maybe we need to assemble a dream team of engineers and artists and scientists?
If Charlie was in charge, he said, he would want to look closely at the very most radical ideas. Ideas like smothering the oil leak by sinking a half million ton BP oil tanker on top of the broken well. And ideas like using Navy submarines to fire torpedoes into the Gulf floor at a perimeter around the well and force massive ground soil up and over the leak.
The Deepwater Horizon oil spill is a radical problem, and anagrams are not radical enough solutions.>
