Put a balloon under water. Pop it. You see a wave on the surface.
But a straw into a bubble of oil that's billions of gallons thick, under 100,000+ lbs of pressure, and control it's flow, and you'll see the straw bend and blow under the effects of cavitation. These are effects bound by the laws of Physics.
What happens as it drains, relentlessly? The crust of the many strata supports the pressure equalized for millions of years of decaying pressurized crude oil now begins supporting your mile and a half of sea water above. Oil, we know, goes hand in hand with natural gas. Like a soda, natural gas remains compressed into liquid by the pressure of it's container.
What happens when you pop open a bottle of soda that's sat in your hot car? It fizzes, explodes, and goes everywhere.
As the oil drains from this massive pocket on the floor of the Gulf, natural gas is fizzing up to the top of the pocket. This is creating a void of gas; much less dense than the oil beneath it; and much less able to support the strata of sea floor above it, not to mention the mile or so of sea water above it too.
So what happens next? Within 10 mos, the floor may collapse, sinking a number of remaining rigs, and send a wave of water at the gulf coast traveling at 350 miles per hour.
What do we do? Evacuate. Stop listening to the noise from Washington. Turn our signal to alternative energy, and responsible, sustainable business, and social change.
Step one, sign this petition: http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/letter_to_barack_obama/
