Does Kevin Costner of All People Have The Answer to this Mess?

[Nitro Express]

Nature will cleanse and repair itself before the lawsuits on this fuck up are settled. Talk about a boom for the lawyers.

[Nitro Express]

Katrina and now this oil spill. Louisiana's new slogan should be. "Welcome to Louisiana. Shit Happens here."

[chefcraig]

Not under thousands of feet of ocean.

I dunno...the guy dealt with fire, explosions and an army shooting at him while he capped the wells. What's a little water compared to that?

[ELVIS]

My idea is to wire together a sort or barrier wall of hay bales, hay boom if you will, and they can be various lengths, shapes and sizes to fit in and around our marshland, bayous and other waterways...

Hay is very buoyant and oil bonds to it...

Weights can be added to the bottom course to keep the hay wall, or hay boom upright...

Screw Co$tner...

A bale of hay is less than two dollars but nobody seems to even want to hear my idea...

[chefcraig]

My idea is to wire together a sort or barrier wall of hay bales, hay boom if you will, and they can be various lengths, shapes and sizes to fit in and around our marshland, bayous and other waterways...Hay is very buoyant and oil bonds to it...Weights can be added to the bottom course to keep the hay wall, or hay boom upright...
A bale of hay is less than two dollars but nobody seems to even want to hear my idea...

I'm not mocking the idea, as with the threat to the Everglades at this point, I'm willing to consider almost anything. The problem I see in this plan is one of not only distribution, but of retrieval as well. Following that, exactly how much oil is absorbed by the bale until it is saturated, then what do you do with them? It seems to be me that it would be a bulky, cumbersome and altogether awkward way of sopping up the oil.

[ELVIS]

Scoop it up on a barge and burn it...

[Seshmeister]

Well, he's smarter than the assholes who run BP apparently...

It's all relative.

They may have accidently wrecked a beautiful part of the world but at least they never deliberately made The Postman.

[ELVIS]

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[FORD]

My idea is to wire together a sort or barrier wall of hay bales, hay boom if you will, and they can be various lengths, shapes and sizes to fit in and around our marshland, bayous and other waterways...

Hay is very buoyant and oil bonds to it...

Weights can be added to the bottom course to keep the hay wall, or hay boom upright...

Screw Co$tner...

A bale of hay is less than two dollars but nobody seems to even want to hear my idea...

Why not use BOTH?

Besides, we don't want to cause a hay shortage. Would you want starving horses on your conscience?

Wilbur, feed me damn it!!