Posted on 05/12/2010 8:54:47 AM PDT by musicman
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5SxX2EntEo
This is not a redneck joke. Watch the video at the link above.
Two Mississippi Certified Rednecks to the rescue!!!!!!
These two guys in the video above work for CW Roberts, a big contractor in Walton County, Florida.
They have just received a contract to do their hay idea for all the 26 miles of Walton County, Florida beaches including Sandestin.
They start off shore with tug boats and barges spreading or blowing the hay over the oil.
If this works it could make the Obama Administration and the EPA and the NO-DRILLERS look kinda "chicken-little silly."
(I did a search, and could not find this. It came in an e-mail which means it has probably been around the world already. Sorry if it is a duplicate.)
Why can’t they use a no phosphate, no suddsing soap to break up the oil?
Like Amway’s LOC?
It sure works in bathroom drains. (Just watch out for evil eco-terrorists with large cans of Drano.)
This could open up some fine jobs for those out of work and take the initiative away from government to spend more time analyzing and criticizing. It could save BP, et al. a ton of money and do the right thing. We need drilling.
Looks like it’s going to be an outstanding year for a friend of mine. He’s got 1200 acres of the stuff under cultivation right now!
In the video, the two gentlemen mention taking the oil-soaked straw or hay or whatever grass has captured the oil and taking it to a generating plat that uses wood chips or burns things to make energy.
Your idea in your post #19 is EXCELLENT!!!!
I take it as a compliment. Two salt-of-the-earth kind of guys with a common-sense, low-cost solution to a big problem. The Ivy-Leaguers can shove it.
Or dried out alfalfa...
You are absolutely right. The EPA will find a way to ban it; can’t have a crisis (with a homegrown solution) that doesn’t involve the government.
hair also works well, my wife owns a hair salon and many of the local salons have been collecting the cut hair to be used as an absorbant for the spilled oil
Surfactants are being used in great amounts and have been from the beginning.
Tip o’ the hat to these gents and their company.
The big question is why the feds aren't taking charge of this and doing anything to stop the leak.
Also there has been a plan since 1994 for managing spills like this by using firebooms and burning the oil on site before it spreads.
Why aren't they doing it?
OH? Didn’t know that. Just one of my passing random thoughts. LOL
Multiple burns have been done.
Hey! There's gotta be something wrong with this idea... it's not like the stuff grows on trees... < /sarc>
-PJ
That is amazing - American ingenuity at its best!!
No need for Gov’t or EPA (same thing) intervention - they seem to only make things worse anyway.
Same difference.
Don't be "offended" by the term, redneck. That's just buying into a made-up left-wing stereotype. Most folks I know who fit the profile are actually proud to be rednecks.
How about shredded kudzu?
Now THAT’s an idea!!! There are miles and miles and miles of that stuff, easily harvested, right along roads in the South!
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