rubenfeld:

inothernews:

Also!  There’s a reason for BP to keep the well capped, and not just because BP wants to prevent fucking up the Gulf of Mexico anymore with their gushing oil!  From the NY Times:

If a problem crops up, he said, collection systems could be restarted, some within a few hours. In a few weeks there should be enough capacity to collect more than the high estimate of 60,000 barrels a day. But Mr. Suttles said that if valves on the cap were reopened to restart collection, oil would pour anew into the gulf for up to three days.

If the well is not reopened, it could mean that the precise volume of oil that leaked — the well has been estimated to be flowing at a rate of 35,000 to 60,000 barrels a day — may never be known. That raises the question of whether the company might escape some liability for the spill.

Haha, and you thought BP was going to do everything to “make this right”!!!