A friend of mine, Mike Murray, has a 'Situation of the Week' series going on in Facebook, but his answer was too long for the page, so I agreed to let him give his "common sense" answer to how President Obama might proceed in cleaning up the oil in the gulf bay (that's the SOTW).
Here is an explanation of SOTW and his answer.
During a chat on Facebook, BR said to Mike:
"You should post a situation of the week, and people can post common sense ideas regarding the situation. Ready, GO!"
Mike said, "Very good. Here's the first SITUATION OF THE WEEK. A huge hole erupts at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico causing oil to flow out into the entire gulf. How do you plug up the hole and keep the least amount of oil from spilling out? I have my answer....and it's COMMON SENSE."
Here's Mike's answer:
It seems as if this industry problem was first BP's problem--that did not succeed. So, the Federal Government took over, and they can't solve the problem.
However, this is a national crisis and an oil industry problem. Therefore, the President needs to gather ALL heads of the big oil companies and get their brains together to figure this out. That includes Exxon-Mobil (with the whole Valdez problem, they must have some insight on how to fix a problem like this); Conoco Phillips; Shell; and even the company that provides oil to Citgo.
They should all solve this problem together and the one that does solve the problem gets the credit, rewarded by investors who gain confidence in that organization. (They'll all take the credit, of course).
I'm not sure if this tact has been taken but, if not, now's the time to do it as oil continues to spread throughout the Gulf--likely for the next few months. That's my "common sense" answer, and clean up of this mess should be placed on the heads of all oil companies, not just BP, which should be done anyway.
Michael Murray
P.S. I'd also like to thank all the people who wrote their common sense solutions and to Beth Riley for coming up with the idea of SITUATION OF THE WEEK.
Mike's next SOTW will be posted on his Facebook page on Monday. I hope everyone tries to help him fix some of the more complex problems in this world with common sense solutions.
2 comments:
well, geez. that is common sense. So common, that I'd assumed that it was already in progress. I thought that when the press reported that they have top scientists and engineers working to solve the problem, that naturally they'd be folks from all companies. Didn't occur to me that BP may turn away advice from other companies.
Or, for that matter, why would other companies want to help BP? Companies want other companies to fail--that's just competition to build up your own profits. Somebody else eventually takes over that oil well, don't they? That's business, and when BP goes, some other oil company will step in. That said, why should they help out? Only if the Federal Government forces them to do it.
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