3)Can the oil drill be shut off?In the oil spill?

I'm not even religious, and I'm praying for some fix or another - then let's quit drilling holes in the botto of the ocean for a bit!

If a valve could be closed, don't you think they would have already closed it?

Alladinwa said, "The valve to close the pipe was damaged in the original catastrophe."

Actually, it was damaged in an accident several weeks earlier. They KNEW it was damaged, but they went on drilling because it would have cost millions of dollars to stop and fix it. Now they are spending billions of dollars to try to stop the leak and clean up the mess, and when it's all over, they won't even have a working oil well to show for their trouble.

There's a name for that kind of behavior. Criminal negligence.

Hmmmm...have you even been reading the articles on the spill? If you did you would know the oil rig sunk the same day the explosion happened and your idea simply would not work. I would suggest reading those and then see what other kind of solution you can come up with.

Currently, they are working on trying to cap the pipe. Cutting the pipe is the only "success" they have had and the pipe should be capped sometime today.

The valve to close the pipe was damaged in the original catastrophe. It does not work.

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