The Deepwater Horizon Well May Be Damaged

Here is an informative article published Friday in The Times-Picayune about the limited options that are available in trying to stop the worst environmental disaster this nation has seen to date.

It seems that BP was cutting corners when they ran out of well casings down near the oil reservoir and started using flimsy liners instead. Let's see, they were more than 30,000 ft deep in the ocean floor where temperatures are in excess of 500 deg. F. and pressures up to 70,000 psi, and they begin to do things that common sense tells you is untested and potentially dangerous.