[2ndDivisionVet]

How much of this article is BS and how much is true? One thing I know about FreeRepublic is that there are people here who'll be able to sift fact from fiction.

[LomanBill]

[hennie pennie]

*ping*

[mcmuffin]

heard on the popular Coast to Coast Am radio show...

Maximus Bovine Excrementuous.

[DrGunsforHands]

Sounds like all BS. Except the corporate “profit before anything” mentality.

[Viking2002]

I'm no expert on oil or geology, therefore I'm not delving into the fact vs. tinfoil hat aspects of this; I'm just filing it under the 'blind squirrel finding a nut' category, and see what shakes loose in the rest of the thread.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[PGR88]

Was BP looking for abiotic oil reserves?

Its the only kind there is.

[fso301]

He explained that, in the 1970's, Russia drilled over 40,000 feet into the ground and discovered abiotic oil, i.e. oil which replenishes itself via an as-yet-unknown natural chemical process.

I'll call this BS. The Russians drilled the deep wells but didn't find abiotic oil. What they found was lots of water and hydrogen gas.

The off-shore drilling done by BP in the Gulf of Mexico, Williams said, was their attempt to create a similar super-deep well and access this same abiotic oil.

BS due to similarity with first BS

[PetroniusMaximus]

“Minister Lindsey Williams”

I’ve heard this guy before and he seems a little sketchy.

[Repeal The 17th]

“...according to the movie Armageddon...”
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Oh, please. Get a grip.

[coon2000]

Why go way offshore then? They can drill to china on land. The government forced them way offshore.

[SpaceBar]

I heard that C2C show. And it was precisely as others above have pointed out, complete farm animal waste. And don’t get me started on that shameless pos huckster hoagland.

[Rockingham]

Alarmist nonsense. The oil well will be contained and the Gulf will recover more quickly than is generally expected.

[Star Traveler]

You were saying ...

One thing I know about FreeRepublic is that there are people here who'll be able to sift fact from fiction.

AND ... if there's "one thing I know about FreeRepublic" -- it's that you certainly will get a lot of posters who will say that just about anything you want to post is "BS" ... LOL ...

No matter what it is, on Free Republic... it's always "BS" to someone here ... :-)

The real question, though, is if anyone is going ot be able to present anything substantial -- other than to say "BS" ... you see ...

Mind you..., I can get all sorts of "authortative sources" who would be glad to tell everyone here that Obama is doing a fine job -- but you know you're not going to believe it. So, if someone lines up a bunch of authoritative sources (in like manner) and says this is BS, who is to say that it's any more valid than those "others" who tells us that Obama is doing a fine job ... doncha know ...

[gleeaikin]

One interesting piece of information came from the TV interview of a guy who survived jumping off the burning rig into the ocean. If I understand his statements correctly, he said that around the central pipe in the blowout preventer, there was sort of a 15 foot long rubber collar (a giant O ring?). Apparently a technician pulled up the pipe a ways and damaged the inside of this collar. The survivor said there had been pieces of it coming to the surface and some were concerned that it was much more than the usual internal wear would produce. [Will some oil person tell me if my understanding is correct.]

So my question is: Did Transocean inform BP of this issue, and if they did, did BP ignore the potential of this to cause problems? Seems an important part of the “who to blame and sue” issue. Of course, the question also is one of weather anyone survived who was in a position to answer this question.

[eclecticEel]

I know enough not to take advise from someone who sees profound philosophical statements emerging out of Armageddon.

[The Comedian]

I don't listen to C2C. I don't subscribe to conspiracy theories or end-of-the world zombie apocalypse scary stories.

However, I'll repeat what I said back in May: This event is going to be a "localized" ELE. So catastrophic that it's going to show up in the geologic record.

Frankly, whatever it takes to kill off the global caliphate before it can be born is fine with me, even if it means dying myself.

There are some things worse than death. And living under the heel of tyrants while you pray for death is one of them.

Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.

[LiberConservative]

I listen to Coast to Coast every evening. Most of it is BS. This story is BS. Anyone older than 12 can tell when guests on CTC are lying.

[nomad]

For starters you`re talking about the Sasquatch Show, home of the tin foil hatters. I work midnights occasionally and will listen to them a little from time to time, they`re like an sci-fi/conspiracy improvisational troupe. A Saturday Night Live of talk radio. Interesting, in a weird and Twilight Zone sort of a way, BUT, to be taken with a near lethal amount of salt!

[nomad]

For starters you`re talking about the Sasquatch Show, home of the tin foil hatters. I work midnights occasionally and will listen to them a little from time to time, they`re like an sci-fi/conspiracy improvisational troupe. A Saturday Night Live of talk radio. Interesting, in a weird and Twilight Zone sort of a way, BUT, to be taken with a near lethal amount of salt!

[willgolfforfood]

I've been on offshore platforms in the Gulf. Some owned and operated by BP, actually.

Some are in OVER one mile of water - deeper than the one mile depth of this well.

Some of the wells feeding into these platforms are drilled into over 10,000 feet of earth, NOT including the mile + of water they are in.

This leaking well is not really any different geologically than any other well in the Gulf..... but I'm not a drilling expert.