I am 100% sure this delay is 95% political. The accident was over 2 months ago and they still haven't fixed the problem.
There is zero reason why they cannot build a cap with pressure relief valves and draw pipe that progressively closes and opens so that the
pressure is in constant equalization during the transition stage of capping
the leak. None whatsoever. I believe the first cap attempt purely due to
overengineering mentalities.
Just cap and siphon the oil like a vacuum cleaner.

Yeah, it sounds easy enough. Let's try and keep to the problem and avoid the politics though. We all remember the Wall Street scenario.

what do you guys think of the connections between the 1500 meter ban, George Soros, and Petrobras as it relates to the whole mess? Pretty crazy.

I would like to know how far along they are with the relief well?

CNN just announced that BP placed a wedding ring on the leaking oil cap and it immediately stopped putting out. Details at 11:00.

Crude jumps due to Gulf storm fears, gasoline hopes :

http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-201 ... 08403.html

That's hilarious

That's hilarious

Check out the news reports from the gulf oil spill that happened in 1979 and you'll see that it's not political. Took just as long to do it then. They tried all the same techniques to stop it and failed. Relief wells are the only thing that did the trick.

BP plc[3][4] is a British-based global energy company which is the third largest energy company and the fourth largest company in the world. A multinational oil company ("oil major"), BP is the United Kingdom's largest corporation, with its head office in St James's, City of Westminster, London.[5][6][7] BP America's headquarters is in the One Westlake Park in the Energy Corridor area of Houston, Texas.[8] The company is among the largest private sector energy corporations in the world and is one of the six "supermajors" (vertically integrated private sector oil exploration, natural gas, and petroleum product marketing companies).[9] The company is listed on the London Stock Exchange, the New York Stock Exchange, and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.

Since the 20 April 2010 explosion of the Deepwater Horizon, in which 11 people died, and subsequent oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, BP's public standing and stock value have dropped substantially, losing nearly half of its market capitalisation.[10] The disaster, involving a leaking deep water oil well, has devastated a vast area of the United States marine environment, killed marine life, and had a serious impact on the local fishing industry. Efforts at containing the spill were at first ineffective and though some progress has been made since the fitting of a cap, in late June 2010, massive volumes of crude oil continue to escape and cause serious damage to the marine ecosystem and local economy.[11][12] Apart from the environmental damage, the disaster is having an impact on President Barack Obama's political standing. The disaster has prompted high level negotiations with British Prime Minister David Cameron, who has expressed concern for the prospect of BP's destruction.[13]

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BP