Posted on 05/24/2010 8:16:05 AM PDT by Big Bureaucracy
Congressman Antony Weiner has a beef with Glenn Beck and his radio and TV sponsor Goldline... To explain it to Weiner: it is the same like politician’s campaign contributions.
If BP gives millions in campaign cash to ‘Barack Obama for America’ so he can become US President it does not mean that Obama is working for them even if they profit from his world view and executive decisions.
Even if the President chooses to help BP by not closing their leaking oil well forever we are not allowed to say that he did it because he took campaign money from BP.
Weiner fact: Obama did not personally take cash on hand from BP. The President does not work for BP. It just happens that Obama’s view of the situation with the oil spill is a view that is profitable for BP and not for the state of Louisiana.
The fact that Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal did not contribute to the Obama campaign has nothing to do with the fact that the President chooses the oil company over the people of the state. It is just a coincidence.
The same thing with Beck: It is a fact that Goldline sponsors the radio, TV and on stage tours where Glenn Beck is starring, making possible for him to be that thing that he is – a mix of entertainer, commentator, writer, actor and a mad man. However, it does not mean that Beck is working for them even if they profit from the world view he is advocating and the life decisions he is making.
Goldline sponsoring Beck to be a TV personality is the same as BP sponsoring Barack Obama to be President...
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I don't see BP profiting from this in the near term in any way, shape, or form. If the company survives and is allowed to develop the field, perhaps they will come out of it all okay, but that is yet to be seen.
If they 'bought' any federal influence, they got gypped.
Well, however this all pans out..., I’m betting that BP, as a company, is going to be history, after all the lawsuits are finished.
As far as Obama..., we can vote him out in 2012 ... :-)
The feds could have closed the well permanently with few explosions, but chose not to so BP can operate the well again in the future. Meanwhile the environment is all f... up.
This is a popular misconception. No, the Feds couldn't. There are eight strings of casing in that hole. (see well diagram in this post). Explosions are used to snuff out fires by depriving them of oxygen, not to 'cap' a well.
Damaging the original wellbore/wellhead will only create other, less controllable channels to the surface, which complicates the problem instead of solves it.
BP isn't going to salvage this wellbore, they will plug it.
Beck should use the British pronunciation of Weiner ... Wanker.
Why didn’t they plug it for so long.
Are you telling me the mighty USA has no capabilities to plug a pipe - location available.
The wellhead is one mile (roughly) under water. That's 2200 psi operating pressure, just from the seawater. Once the rig burned and sank, the connection to the surface was broken. The drill pipe and riser pipe were laying on the sea floor.
The rig had just displaced the haevy drilling fluid out of the riser pipe when the blowout occurred. The well was supposed to be plugged, and the rig was preparing to move off to let the production rig move in. Apparently, the plug did not hold (for whatever reason, unknown at present).
The BOPs did not succeed in shutting in the well when the blowout occurred. The wellhead, still has the riser pipe attached, Even though is damaged, the riser currently provides an opportunity to remove a lot of the oil coming out of the well (between 2000 and 5000 barrels daily) before it gets loose in the gulf.
As far as your "mighty USA" remark, the best in the world are working on this problem, and doing what they can when the government gets out of the way. What would you reccommend?
I trust your expertize, however you make this conclusion based on info coming from people with questionable credibility driven by powerful interests.
I don’t know the whole capabilities of the USA government and military - I wish to believe they are able to put some hell over that oil well and plug it.
I totally respect your expert knowledge.
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