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 ...
Thank you FRiend for info.
you do not understand the real world...
the price of the cleanup has nothing to do with the cost of a barrel of oil.
they are going to have to pay to clean it up regardless, so the REAL WORLD choices are pay to clean it up and KEEP $1.4 million per revenue a day coming in untill the well is dry, OR seal the well pay to clean it up and NOT take in $1.4 million per day in revenue and just eat the cost of the cleanup.
There were indeed reports that Obama blocked oil skimmers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2533106/posts
[06/12/2010]
Accurate or not, I wonder?
He may have turned down the Dutch skimmers but hundreds of domestic skimmers are in service.
So long as they are Jones approved.
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