I don’t know if that sick part is really envy.  I kind of have it too, its really a feeling that if the disaster isn’t bad enough people won’t really get it and things will continue as they have.  I think most environmentally conscious people are hoping this will be a lynch pin that will start a new direction for our thinking on energy and environment. 

There is also an enjoyment of the smugness of being right.  I used to get that feeling a lot during the Bush years.  Sometimes I even wanted things in Iraq to get worse so it would be more obvious how much of mistake it was. 

Its a difficult position to have one’s fears verified, it brings up a feeling of satisfaction at being right, an anger at those who disagreed with you (drill baby drill) and a fear that it might still not be enough to convince those who were wrong.

illegal:
That sick part of you is called envy.

15 hours in….no luck with the top kill.

I love the environment, I really do.

I raise my own organic meats, eggs and veggies; my kids run aorund barefoot in the mud.

I like to catch fish and eat them.

But there is some sick part of me that wants this disaster to increase rather than decrease.

Can’t explain it.

It kinda scares me.

Now that the top kill effort seems to have be a success, the debate will be about who gets the credit- BP or “the government”.

Of course, since many posters here think the BP CEO should be thrown in jail, or worse, they must believe that he blew up the rig intentionally, so why would he make any effort to stop the leak? Ergo, Obama to the rescue.

The damage already is immense. Should this attempt fail, I believe this will be a cataclysmic disaster that could well spell death to the oceans and subsequently massive extinction on a par with the worst in our planet’s history.

“the shot from guns breakfast table cereals solution”... I guess it worked since I haven’t heard any news…good news is no news…eheha… but i figure we are doomed as doomed can be and so what… it was bound to happen anyway one way or another sooner or later
...just like in them science fiction books they made me read in hischool…. 2525 and shit. Anyway good luck everybody and don’t shoot’chy’er own foot or nothin’ with them new fangled guns.  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izQB2-Kmiic  el trumpets son el bueno mucho besto

Hopefully, BP got the well capped today, but I haven’t heard anything on the news about whether they did or didn’t, yet.  It could go from bad to worse and oil be spurting uncontrollable from that hole in the ocean floor until the well dries up, if the casing explodes in the process, so that the well will be impossible to cap.  I really hope there’s good news in the 10pm news and I wish all drilling in the ocean would cease.