holy shit, could BP get any more stupid?

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"This week, Mike Utsler, who helps oversee the spill response off the entire Louisiana coast as BP Houma incident commander, said he's only focused on taking oil off the surface. "We don't know there's oil underwater," he said."

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/27/AR2010052703667.html

did the giant fucking geyser of oil from the seabed just fly over your head, or what?
 
The scientists, aboard a University of South Florida research vessel, found an area of dissolved oil that is about six miles wide, and extends from the surface down to a depth of about 3,200 feet, said Professor David Hollander.
Hollander said that he believed the plume might have stretched more than 20 miles from the site of a leak on the floor of the Gulf of Mexico, where the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig sank April 22. It has not yet reached Florida.
The plume is clear, with the oil entirely dissolved.
"Here is a situation where, unless you're looking at the chemical fingerprints, [the oil] is absolutely not visible," Hollander said. "It's not some Italian vinaigrette or anything like that. It's absolutely, perfectly clear."
But, Hollander said, even this clear-looking water could contain enough oil to be toxic to small animals at the base of the gulf food chain. He said he was also worried that the oil contains traces of "dispersants," soap-like chemicals sprayed into the oil to break it up
 
i'm pretty confident at this point that i'm smarter than most the people running the cleanup.
 
a 7 word snippet, taken out of context, of probably hours and hours of him addressing the public and you're criticizing him for not realizing that the oil originates from underwater?

you're a dumbass.
 
i'm criticizing him over the fact that oil doesn't necessarily float. even though the oil is dispersed, it's still in high enough concentration to be a MAJOR fucking issue, even if it is underwater.
 
http://trueslant.com/allisonkilkenny/2010/05/13/fresh-from-gulf-disaster-bp-urges-canadian-legislators-to-drop-regulations/
 
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