Just a few questions on Obama’s BP oil spill speech

If the BP data correctly or honestly identified four separate reservoirs then a bleed-out might gush less than 2 to 2.5 billion barrels unless the walls -- as it were -- fracture or partially collapse. I am hearing the same dark rumors which suggest fracturing and a complete bleed-out are already underway. Rumors also suggest a massive collapse of the Gulf floor itself is in the making. They are just rumors but it is time for geologists or related experts to end their deafening silence and speak to these possibilities.

This is very scary. I've read on other sites about how the collapse of the GoM floor could affect the New Matrid Fault which supposedly ends near the GoM, which could further lead to the emptying of the Great Lakes into the Gulf by ay of the Ohio-Mississippi Rivers. May sound preposterous, but the Earth has undergone great natural catastrophes in the past. We may be living at one of those times. I've also heard about the military preparing to evacuate the Gulf coast (because of the collapse--I know, probably conspiracy crap.

God, please, Your will be done. Guide these engineers, scientists, and leaders in the right direction.

"Now, there are costs associated with this transition. And there are some who believe that we can't afford those costs right now. I say we can't afford not to change how we produce and use energy - because the long-term costs to our economy, our national security, and our environment are far greater.

Translated:

"Take it from an average, affirmative action student with zero expertise in what I'm demagoging about - being someone who's never run a business, never worked in the private sector, never added value to the economy, and never even legislated while pretending to be a politician (uh, um, my handlers always had my back and let me put my name on a couple of their bills - but I digress).

So, let me be clear about this... while I have no idea what the facts are... every word that I speak is part of a lie or deception... I can assure you as The Global Community Organizer (we won) - that those who say we should sit back and do nothin' to find new, innovative, expensive, subsidized, repackaged failed energy solutions... solutions that will create a gazillion dollars in new tax revenues over the next 10 years... to, um, bail out my union comrades... well, they just don't get it... They don't get that there's still too many people makin' too much money.

I've got a new government program that will fix the problem of some people makin' too much money. And Joe Sliden will head it up. There's no one like Joe to get those kind of results!

"So I'm happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party - as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels."

Translated:

"Don't bother me with any suggestions that:
1) Aren't made in China, some other communist dictatorship, or 3rd world country.
2) That doesn't use fossil fuel energy and raw materials to produce.
3) Or won't rely on US humanitarian aid money to build their global industry."

You were in your parody mode and mimicking Obama ...

"So I'm happy to look at other ideas and approaches from either party - as long they seriously tackle our addiction to fossil fuels."

LOL ...

And that reminds me of something... I just saw a show the other day about electric cars. And it was about the General Motors electric car. I didn't pay any attention to them at the time they were out, but looking at that show, I sure would have wanted one. They were pretty cool for an in-town commuter car, for most all the commuting that one would do in a big metropolitan area.

They wouldn't do at all for trips out of town, of course, but for what I do, it would be fine and then I could have another car for "hitting the road" (at our place we've got three cars sitting around as it is, right now.

Here's a blow-up of one, and some other pictures...

They looked like fantastic cars, and apparently they have good get-up and go and could drive right along with any freeway traffic.

For some reason, GM took them all back and crushed them and got rid of them. I mean, they were all brand new working cars and they sent them to the crusher and crushed hundreds of them and wouldn't let anyone buy one ... [initially they had leased them, and they wouldn't allow anyone to buy one, and they took them all back and crushed them]...

These are all brand new and working cars, crushed and eliminated ... and no one was allowed to buy one. At least I'm not aware of anyone (maybe someone got away with one, but I don't know who ... LOL ...).

Boy! I would have sure like to have one and I think a lot of other people would have liked to have one, too.

They've got those hybrids, but I don't know ... I just don't like them as well. And then there are some other electrics out there, but they are really funky looking electrics and look like go-carts ... LOL ... This one from General Motors was an honest-to-goodness "real car" ... and they just got rid of them all ... I think that was a real big mistake on their part.

This kind of car could have gone a real long way to providing a lot of benefit to those living in the cities.

Now, that's the kind of technology I would have loved to have seen put into widespread use. With out three cars, this kind of car could have easily been one of them.

I think these were offered as rentals too on a very limited basis. Didn't they get less than 100 miles from a full charge and require a special charging adapter for the home (not a standard 110/220)?

This type of car would be perfect for city dwelling - running errands, short commutes to work, etc., but I don't know how well it would work in Austin where it's hot and hilly - the stress of hills and running the air drains the batteries, plus 100+ degrees fries batteries in about 2 years.

The pics of the crushed cars, besides reminding me of "cash for clunkers", also reminds me of when GM paid to have the trolley tracks pulled out of SF streets so they could sell their busses.

I want to look into those cars a bit more, since I only saw that one show about them. It was an interesting show and it was amazing that such technology was scrapped and vehicles were crushed, when they could have been sold. That’s really weird.

So, I don’t know a lot about them, because I didn’t follow it at the time it was going on. This is recent history more or less... but it sure does make one wonder why the car companies and the oil companies want to squelch this. I say the “oil companies” because the battery maker (who produced excellent batteries that would outlast the life of the car, itself, was bought up by an oil company (after GM, itself, had control of the company for a while; it sold it off to an oil company) and the company was prevented from marketing itself. They just “put a cap” on everything the company did ... to squelch it. It was very weird. These batteries, by the way, were not the typical batteries and they did have a longer life than the cars ... [the company still exists, as far as I know] ... :-)

Anyway, if our bigger companies are squelching things like this — it doesn’t bode well for getting out of this dependence we have on foreign oil ...

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Obama's Tuesday, June 15, 2010 Speech