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Why Do Obama, BP Refuse to Use the Most Effective Method of Oil Cleanup?
Conservative Examiner ^ | 6/5/2010 | Anthony G. Martin

Posted on 06/05/2010 11:44:10 AM PDT by Welshman007

As the Gulf oil disaster closes in on the 50-day mark, the Obama Administration and BP refuse to use the most effective method of oil cleanup. The top oil barons of the world--the Saudis--have used this method to avoid a mammoth oil disaster.

And the result was swift, effective, and conclusive.

In 1993 and '94 the Saudis faced an oil spill of historic proportions in the Arabian Gulf as four leaking tankers and two oil gushers threatened to spur a catastrophic event that was 65 times worse than the Exxon-Valdez spill.

An American engineer, Nick Pozzi, was part of a task force charged with developing a solution to the looming disaster.

(Excerpt) Read more at examiner.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Politics
KEYWORDS: bhofail; blogpimp; bp; epicfail; gulfoildisaster; oil; oilcleanup; oilspill; oiltankers; saudioilspill; saudis; supertankermethod
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1 posted on 06/05/2010 11:44:10 AM PDT by Welshman007
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To: Welshman007

CRISIS+ politcial + = enforcing new laws


2 posted on 06/05/2010 11:45:33 AM PDT by truthbetold11 (truthbetold11)
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To: Welshman007

its all about $ that is why they did not cap the well and stop the flow, but instead tried to put an extension piece over the well to keep bringing the oil to the surface where they can load it onto tankers and sell it.


3 posted on 06/05/2010 11:47:52 AM PDT by edzo4 (You call us the 'Party Of No', I call us the resistance.)
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To: Welshman007

Soetoro and the Left didn’t directly cause the oil spill but their interest is very much in making as bad a disaster as they can.


4 posted on 06/05/2010 11:48:18 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: Welshman007

The objective is to NOT clean up to show America how rotten oil is. Just like the objective is to NOT fix the economy to show America how rotten capitalism and free markets are.


5 posted on 06/05/2010 11:48:24 AM PDT by libh8er
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To: Welshman007

Why do some keep ignoring the fact that skimmers HAVE BEEN USED on this spill since the very first days?

They are not ignoring this technology; they have been using all along.

But the Gulf of Mexico allows the oil to spread out over a far greater area than the Persian Gulf.


6 posted on 06/05/2010 11:49:06 AM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: libh8er

That’s like saying that Bush’s response during Katrina is what it was because he “hates black people.”

The truth is George Bush was incompetent and over his head and Katrina showed and Barack Obama is incompetent and over his head and the oil spill is showing it. Though in his case politics probably plays a role given all the money BP has given him.


7 posted on 06/05/2010 11:51:35 AM PDT by AzaleaCity5691
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To: Welshman007

$$$$$$$$....not that we don’t have it, because they want to make it.


8 posted on 06/05/2010 11:54:46 AM PDT by Doogle (USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand..never store a threat you should have eliminated)
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To: edzo4
That would have been the best method had it worked. Sealing it cuts off that source which is apparently much bigger than previously thought because BP nor anyone else will be permitted to go get that oil in the future. The wonderfulness of the BP accident is in its capacity to generate a shutdown of all deep water, maybe all shallow water, and possibly most land oil extraction in the U.S. The thought of $15 gasoline surely makes a Leftist hear go pit-a-pat in a big way.

This will probably provide the rationale for ending America's nuclear power efforts and existing plants, also. After all, if mere oil can be so disastrous, a nuclear accident would be far worse.

9 posted on 06/05/2010 11:54:52 AM PDT by arthurus ("If you don't believe in shooting abortionists, don't shoot an abortionist." -Ann C.)
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To: Welshman007
Are you still planning to "Expose Free Republic Nationally" if folks don't agree with you?

And why excerpt?

10 posted on 06/05/2010 11:55:44 AM PDT by humblegunner (Pablo is very wily)
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To: thackney

Exactly, what is ignorant is this reporter. Completely different environment. The Gulf of Mexico has currents that scatter the oil. Also, this is a much different mixture of crude/nat gas, than Saudi oil that pools together.


11 posted on 06/05/2010 11:56:24 AM PDT by gandalftb (OK State: Go Cowboys)
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To: thackney
Skimmers? Fine. But **nothing** can suck it up like a VLCC, and you've got to know that. Whyinhell aren't there some VLCCs out there, hmm? They easily could have been put -- could STILL be put -- on site in a week or so.

This deliberate and egregious bit of mismanagement is what is going to hang BP and the Kenyan, ultimately.

12 posted on 06/05/2010 11:56:41 AM PDT by SAJ (Zerobama? A phony and a prick, ergo a dildo.)
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To: Welshman007

I hope the “swing” state of Florida remembers this before the next election.

They may not vote for a man named hussein next time.


13 posted on 06/05/2010 11:58:45 AM PDT by boycott (CAL)
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To: thackney

because it appears that skimmers are different than huge oil tankers that can suck up the oil/water mixture in very large quantities then take it to shore to be processed.


14 posted on 06/05/2010 11:59:53 AM PDT by joesjane (The strength of the pack is the wolf - Rudyard Kipling)
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To: AzaleaCity5691
The truth is George Bush was incompetent and over his head and Katrina showed...

You're showing too. Name one thing he should have done about Katrina but didn't do.

15 posted on 06/05/2010 12:00:07 PM PDT by houeto (Get drinking water from your ditch - http://www.junglebucket.com/Jungle-Bucket-1.htm)
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To: Welshman007

This method must be known as the Pozzi Scheme....


16 posted on 06/05/2010 12:00:11 PM PDT by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Welshman007

Who pushed drilling far out to sea where a disaster would be more beneficial to some people? Can you say ‘Cap and Trade’, Never let a good crisis go to waste... read from people who have done their research and make up your own mind.

http://www.blogster.com/joannemor/bombshell-expose-the-real-reason-the-oil-still-flows-into-the-gulf-of-mexico

***Top PR firm for BP tied to White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel***

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/blogs/beltway-confidential/Top-PR-firm-for-BP-tied-to-White-House-Chief-of-Staff-Rahm-Emanuel-95223369.html


17 posted on 06/05/2010 12:00:30 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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To: Welshman007

First you notice that common sense tells you you do not have to plug the ho before you can contain and cleanup. Thinking is all it takes to conclude that.

then you have to want to stop the oil spill from spreading ...

explosion -> oil spill -> let her leak -> crisis -> cap and trade —— following the bouncing ball.

Why did we turn down the help of 17 offering countries, including booms, tankers, skimmers and other equipment — if we really wanted it cleaned up. Including the Saudis and their oil skimming super tankers ....

Have you noticed all the Gulf states have Republican governors? Obama apparently has.


18 posted on 06/05/2010 12:05:17 PM PDT by Tarpon (Obama-Speak ... the fusion of sophistry and Newspeak. It's not a gift, it's just lies.)
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To: AzaleaCity5691

Id love to know what you would have done that W didnt do.


19 posted on 06/05/2010 12:08:48 PM PDT by Wilderness Conservative
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To: Tarpon

Yes, he has it in for Texas for sure.

Now doesn’t that make for a good president. /s %$#*


20 posted on 06/05/2010 12:09:14 PM PDT by TribalPrincess2U (demonicRATS... taxes, pain and slow death. Is this what you want?)
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