yep,
show us another rig “incident” of this magnitude (as the parsing president called this yesterday) where every single fail-safe system - failed
I will revisit this thread in 30 days when industry insiders have a chance to tell or leak their stories and we have a chance to see what Homeland Security and the US military are called upon to do regarding the protection of our energy production and infrastructure -
time will tell if this was just an act of God or failure of man but my sumting wrong light is blinking, especially since Spetnaz and other commando forces (porbably even trained elite terrorists) have plans for attacks on our energy infrastructure, in general war - we thought
by your definition, ships, aircraft, refineries, factories, power plants..etc all meet the definition of hazardous materials chemicals and explosive fuels in a small space just needing a spark to blow
Now I am off to tank up because I predict a gas price spike by tonight and through the weekend, and shortages in several weeks
Let’s see if I am wearing too much tinfoil
I’m not ruling anything out. Apparently there’s enough doubt that they called in SWAT to look for bombs. I think that the odds are that this was an accident, but I’ll wait for an investigation before I start accusing members of the government of intentionally blowing up 11 people to highlight a political issue.
Do a search for the “Piper Alpha”. Wikipedia has a good rundown of what happened. It was a series of human errors that ended with over 150 people being killed in a platform explosion in the North Sea.