From The Oil Drum, where they found something good to say about BP:

With the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill now focusing President Obama’s and the American people’s minds on where their energy comes from, and what some of the collateral costs might be, its an opportune moment to look at how renewable energy may help supply our future energy needs.    Somewhat ironically, it is BP that provides the energy world with a priceless service through their annual review of world energy that was published last week (with little fanfare) which this year, for the first time, includes data on renewable energy.

Exponential growth in wind energy over the past 15 years has boosted energy from renewables to near 50 million tonnes oil equivalent per annum.

At least BP is good for something.   If they know so much about renewables, why aren’t they investing more in them?  Oh well, it’s all academic for them at this point, because they might not be around much longer.  It’s nice they can put out a report like this as they are destroying the ocean south of the United States, east of Mexico and north of South America.  Unfortunately this Gulf of Mexico water  is connected to other oceans and the currents will carry the oil into the Atlantic. Maybe even up to England.

Every American needs to know how serious the leak in the Gulf might be, (and probably is).  It’s doubtful that BP as a  corporation will survive this disaster and the U.S. economy might not, either.  The damage done to the seafloor at the site of the BP oil leak might be irreversible and unstoppable  by conventional means.

About a week ago, a post appeared, by Doug R at The Oil Drum. You can read it here. Essentially what his very long, detailed article there says is that this is a massive oil field, and there may be no stopping this oil leak at all because of the damage that has occurred to the well, and that damage is getting worse as time goes on.   I don’t know if his article is correct or accurate,  but it seems to be plausible, and it’s vouched for by many people in the comment section there, and it’s been widely re-published by a lot of publications with good  reputations, including Mother Jones.

We also know that BP will lie about this oil leak and how the “cleanup” is going until they turn purple.  It could very well be the case that there is no way to stop this leak, which is now many leaks, but BP would never admit that.  See the video a couple of posts down from this one; the video from one of the BP cameras showing that the sea floor itself is leaking oil at a large rate.  Oil is not just seeping from the sea floor as happens naturally, but puffing out bursts of oil that obscure the [...]