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The following information comes from recent measurements from the EPS and NOAA:

The Deepwater Horizon was an ultra-deep well, meaning that the well itself drilled down to as far as 18, to 25,000 feet, nearly throw the Earths crust, we could every well have hit a strata of oil or a Bathetic of oil. Oil at those depths can reach levels of pressure of 70,000lbs psi. There is no technology known that can handle that pressure. Normal psi for a well is 1,500psi.

What this is doing is eroding the pipe and the surrounding area and digging a bigger fissure, much like if you stick a high-pressure hose in the ground, only in this case from the bottom up. This is causing other streams to open up, hence why we're seeing plumbs appearing miles away from the original rupture.

But that isn't the worst part. As bad as the oil is it is biodegradable. Along with the oil, deadly gases are escaping at the following unprecedented levels (from resent EPA measurements).

Hydrogen Sulfide- safe level= 5-10 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion.

Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion.

Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion.
What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion.

These gases can cause massive health effects ranging from shortness of breath to cancer to death. In fact, we've seen some surface workers hospitalized.

Insiders are now saying that there now may be only one way to stop this monster: Nuke it. However there is no guarantee that this wouldn't make matters even worse by opening up even a bigger rupture or creating multiple fissures in the sea floor.

If nothing at all is done, there is reason to believe this rupture will go on for years, possibly decades.

And if this isn't bad enough, Corexit 9500, the dispersant being used, is many times more damaging than the oil itself. Its highly toxic. At the temperatures in the Gulf waters this toxicity is magnified and turns into a gas that can be picked up by clouds and return to Earth as a toxic rain. This "death from above" precipitation may have the ability to destroy life from micro organisms up through the entire entire ecosystem. So the chemical "solution" to the hydrocarbon Extinction Level Event may turn out to be a localized environmental holocaust.

I really wish I had been wrong about this.

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There is a deep well in the Anadarko Basin of Western Oklahoma that is producing natural gas..from a 30,000+ deep well and the pressures there are 28,000+...

I believe that is the deepest producing well with the highest pressure in the world.

It is a sediment basin...

The Hugoton basin in Southwest Kansas is from a shallower part of the small basin.

Some history:

ANADARKO BASIN

"Hydrogen Sulfide- safe level= 5-10 parts per billion. What's been measured: 1,200 parts per billion. Benzine - safe level = 0-4 parts per billion. What's been measured: 3,000 parts per billion. Metholine Chloride - safe level = 61 parts per billion. What's been measured: 3,400 parts per billion."

WHERE did you come up with this??? Any hydrogen sulfide immediately dissolves in seawater, and then precipitates as a harmless solid, as soon as it finds a calcium or iron ion.

3000 ppb (actual 3 ppm) of benZENE (not benZINE) is about what is normally present in gasoline. You breath it every time you fill your cars gas tank. Have you died yet???

And "metholine chloride" (actually methylene chloride) is not a constituent of oil, nor is it naturally found in the earth. So this has to be total bullshit.

And your ravings about Corexit are completely nuts. There is nothing in Corexit that has that kind of toxicity.

Corexit is NOT toxic. It has been approved by the EPA for over 20 years and, with the exception of the exceptional flow rate of this blown well, it would be one of the most helpful items in dispersing thick crude so the skimmer can pick it up. Branding a chemical as toxic when it is not is factually dishonest- this is a proprietary agent that is completely biodegradable and enables oliophilic bacteria (that is oil loving bacteria in great abundance in the ocean) to attack the spill and digest it into natural by products. Facts are important. The inaction of the prez, his complete adherance to marxist crisis advantage to move a political agenda even as the well continues to pour out crude, is beyond description. He should be impeached, and God willing, he will be. He has had Federal authority to act in extreme speed to prevent this oil from ever reaching the shore— and he did nothing about it, and neither did career people in the agencies.