Matthew Simmons: "We've Now Killed The Gulf Of Mexico"

The BusinessInsider ^ | 7-21-2010 | Gus Lubin

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Matthew Simmons: "We've Now Killed The Gulf Of Mexico"

Gus Lubin
Jul. 21, 2010, 3:50 PM

Matthew Simmons has been saying the spill is worse than anyone admits for weeks, and he hasn't been wrong yet.

Today he tells Bloomberg we've now killed the Gulf of Mexico.

Simmons says the leak is much bigger than the cameras show thanks to a big gushing hole around ten miles from the sunken rig:

"What we don’t know anything about is the open hole which is caused by the drill bit when it tossed the blow-out preventer way out of the hole…and 120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. So what they’re talking about is the biggest environmental cover-up ever. And they knew that that well, that riser, would finally deplete. And then they could say it’s over. And unfortunately, we now have killed the Gulf of Mexico.”

Oil could decimate aquatic life by depleting oxygen and poisoning the food chain. This would also kill the $2.2 trillion Gulf economy.

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[blam]

Be nice.

I just post'em.

[snarkbait]

He’s completely full of shiite, but we knew that.

[fireforeffect]

This is the night soil of a large and very well fed male water buffalo.

[truthguy]

Someone needs to tell Simmons his 15 minutes is up. Pretty soon CNN and MSNBC will stop returning his calls.

[MaxMax]

Planet killers! No wait, isn't oil a natural resource?

[KosmicKitty]

Isn’t the oil that spilled into the Gulf organic?? I mean, it wasn’t processed.

Haven’t other areas with spills of similar intensity eventually returned to their form state?

Well, time will tell.

[Gaffer]

I remember when people (informed scientists, ecologists, bleeding hearts and MSM) were saying that the eruption of Mt. St. Helens would take centuries to recover from. I believe the same thing was opined for Mt. Pinatubo in the Philipines.

This ole Earth has recovered from much worse and Mother Nature recovers how she will.

[tet68]

And Carl Rove was behind this how?

Honestly, just waiting for the Halliburton shoe to drop.

[OpusatFR]

He’s gone off the rails. I think the whole blowup of global warming first and now the peak oilers has unhinged him.

[yuleeyahoo]

Oil could decimate aquatic life

If it's only reduced by 10% how did we kill the gulf?

[chris37]

I don’t believe Mr. Simmons at this point.

I’m headed out to navarre Beach this weekend, and I intened to get in the water.

[earlJam]

Full of shiite just because of nonsensical sentences like this....

“120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico..”

Exactly 120,000 minimum whats? Tablespoons, barrels, gallons, metric liters,...?

[ArrogantBustard]

"Toxic poison"?

As opposed to what, exactly?

Wouldn't non-toxic poison be kind of pointless?

[wardaddy]

We too are headed to South Walton or the Grand Hotel at Point Clear first of August.

folks get pretty worked up

[Codeflier]

How can there be a cover up if we've killed the Gulf. Wouldn't that become obvious regardless of cover up attempts. The more guys that talk like this, the more convinced I am that 4 or 5 years from now there will be almost no noticeable effects.

[ConfidentConservative]

I thought oil and gas is lighter than water? Isn’t that why we are skimming the surface? So what is on the floor that has destroyed the gulf?

[reagan_fanatic]

In five to ten years there will be little if any sign of this disaster, gulf life will flourish again and people like Simmons will have gone on to promote yet another one of their favorite boogeymen.

[Dem Guard]

Tell this drip to put his aluminum foil hat back on to listen for messages from little green men from space.

[chemicalman]

Well...If he won’t eat any more gulf seafood, he can always “eat mor chikin”.

[Yudan]

I was at Sandestin from Friday to yesterday and it was beautiful. Wonderful.