WAKE UP AMERICA
Posted on 06/24/2010 10:00:44 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Good link here summarizing an industry theory about the oil spill: http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=MzI5Y2EwZTA3NjQ4ZTYwNjhmNjhiNjQ1ZmQ1MzIzZTQ=
It summarizes a technical document on TheOilDrum.com website here:http://www.theoildrum.com/node/6593/648967
The first link is a handy summary which describes a very pessimistic view of the oil spill (no end in site - could get much much worse for a long time).
This is just too big a deal for the governments tentacles not to go to work. I don’t think this ends well, hysteria aside.
“Plans are being put in place for the mandatory evacuation of New Orleans, Baton Rouge, Mandeville, Hammond, Houma, Belle Chase, Chalmette, Slidell, Biloxi, Gulfport, Pensacola, Hattiesburg, Mobile, Bay Minette, Fort Walton Beach, Panama City, Crestview, and Pascagoula,” Madsen writes.
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But Obama would never do anything to devastate the economies of states that would probably vote for him in 2012.
Wait, what?
Or about 70,000 gallons of water per drop of oil.
Thanks for the perspective. But it is still doing tremendous damage.
But if the oil is washing up on shore in tar balls and blackening beaches then it is not distributed evenly throughout the volume and is therefore not diluted.
Three Mile Island and Chernobyl are concerns based on concentration levels - one could calculate the overall effect when released radiation is distributed evenly over a huge geographic area - including vertical distribution throughout the air column - but that isn’t what happens. Especially not for emergency workers at CHernobyl whose boots were melting to the ground from radiation.
Further, the concerns over the dispersant are beyond unfounded, especially when you consider the amount of dispersant to crude oil of 50 to 100 to one - IE: 50 barrels of crude oil spilled for every barrel of dispersant used. I guarantee you that the crude oil is far more toxic than the dispersant, which is mostly made up of petroleum distillate and sulfuric salts, both of which are in much higher forms in the crude itself.
It goes on to say a 200 mile radius would be evacuated, then expands that to include the gulf states, including Florida, and more babble about massive martial law. Just more paranoid junk that feeds the Art Bell show.
Thanks, unkus, I’m getting lots of practice...(8^D)
This is just too big a deal for the governments tentacles not to go to work. I don’t think this ends well, hysteria aside.
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I agree, I’m more hysterical about gov’t overreach than I am about the oil gusher.
We will be hurt bad by the oil but we can slowly recover from that.
I’m not sure we can recover from liberties lost to the gov’t overreach/control.
Okay. Most of this isn't really out of line with normal preparation for a vigorous hurricane season--and its coming, whether vigorous or not.
No fly zone: Yep. I would, too. There is enough mess out there without having some sightseeing aircraft out there, down, and having to drop everything else and do rescue/recovery, not to mention the air traffic nightmare if there were no strict controls.
...the methane now escaping into the Gulf may have been part of a massive bubble trapped for thousands of years under the sea floor.
This is called a 'reservoir'. There is not much sense in drilling into one full of salt water, you want oil or natural gas (or both), which BP found. That, after all, was the objective.
“More than a year ago, geologists expressed alarm in regard to BP and Transocean putting their exploratory rig directly over this massive underground reservoir of methane. Warnings were raised before the Deepwater Horizon catastrophe that the area of seabed chosen might be unstable and inherently dangerous,”
Well, they weren't oilfield geologists. If everyone pulled an apocalyptic prediction out of a warm dark orifice daily, sooner or later someone would 'win', kinda like the lottery.
The well was under control until the riser was displaced and the plug which leaked had a chance to produce enough oil and gas into the riser to cause a blowout. Had the proper actions been taken to control the well early on in the sequence of events which led immediately to the blowout, there is a strong chance that the blowout would not have happened. Someone screwed up, but the formation, pressures, and geology were not beyond being dealt with without extraordinary means, at least until the rig sank.
Keep in mind, too, that relief wells are not eatraprdinary, even if unusual, that they have been used before to control blowouts, and are the means to control this one and plug the well.
You’re not going to beleive a retired Kansas Highway Patrolman? LOL
Would it include HOUSTON ??
who owns stock or interest in the company that manufactures Corexit 9500?”
George Soros.
And rumor has it....
June 1st...
http://www.paranoidsonline.com/2010/06/gulf-evacuation-plans.html
June 10th...
http://gazbom.blogspot.com/2010/06/extreme-alert-gulf-coast-evacuation.html
When you're under martial law, and have been evacuated, can you still vote in an election?
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I have listened to Greg Evenson on the radio. He has been predicting Martial Law any minute for about a year now that I know of. They are going to come get us all and put us in FEMA camps. BHO could not coordinate a bus trip to Disney World much less try to evacuate 40 million people from the Gulf Coast. Most of which will refuse to go and yes boys and girls they will be armed.
Yep and resulting in a new civil war.
I have expertise but not exclusively in such fields.
But I do predict people WILL NOT allow Federal or National Guard troops to evict them from their homes and lifestyles, homes that have guarantee of being safe upon return.
I do believe the individual states especially Louisiana will go beyond the Federal restrictions and will mobilize a better more coordinated effort to stop the advancing spread, especially more miles from the shoreline.
The answer to most of the problems is to face Washington and tell them to go run off a short pier.Obama problems aside there will NOT be any help from Washington, they won’t do the right thing in any timely fashion.
This is an extreme national crisis and the only person supposed in charge of being a leader is instead working on his handicap.
So we’ve gone from “the earth’s bleeding” to “the earth farted”.
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