Posted on 04/19/2024 4:22:59 AM PDT by MtnClimber
Moments like the one we live in now come along from time to time, providing the opportunity to learn from the mistakes of the past. For instance, key takeaways from the Deepwater Horizon incident of April 2010 and how they apply to today are clear except to those who deny them.
On Apr. 20, 2010, an explosion occurred on the Deepwater Horizon drilling platform in the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion, which killed 11 men, caused the rig to sink into the deep and started a devastating oil leak from the well. Prior to it being capped three months afterward, roughly 134 million gallons of oil had spilled into the Gulf, making it the biggest offshore oil spill in U.S. history and subsequently cost British Petroleum (BP) up to $8.8 billion in remediation costs and a $5.5 billion Clean Water Act penalty.
Under the surface of the oil rig were disastrous conditions waiting to explode. But pressure from BP officials with just enough knowledge of how the pressure testing worked to be dangerous, caused, in part, the crew and employees who actually knew better to acquiesce, which allowed the theoretical danger to become a literal “well from hell.”
The Takeaways
Takeaway number one: Today, the financial pressure percolating below the surface of trillions of dollars of debt is being denied as a problem by the so-called experts who know just enough about economics to be dangerous. At some point the pressure will be too much not just for the U.S. but for the nations to whom the U.S. is indebted as well. The results will be a global catastrophe.
However, just as with the Deepwater Horizon, where needless suffering and death could have been avoided if the “experts” had listened to the people with the experience running the rig...
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The intent was always to destroy the free enterprise system.
Totalitarian fascism is the inevitable result when governing structures are expected to perpetuate the delusional economic-political notion that everybody has a God-given right to enjoy the highest standard of living in the history of human civilization.
“experts” at looting know what they are doing.
We finally, really did it.
You maniacs!
You blew it up! Oh, damn you! Damn you to hell!
George Taylor from Planet of the Apes.
Fun times.
Yup.
Good article and one to take heed of indeed.
It is quite possible that an election will not stop the Deepwater moment because it has been brewing and building for too long now.
People can get out and vote but hope is all you have when the other side knows they will cheat to win and throw you in the gulag if you take any issue with it.
The real test for us is will we let them blow the valve again and if they do, what are we going to do about it.
We usually sit around and blame each other and let them get away with it barring a few who get prosecuted and punished for standing up.
Once again the Democrats have advanced their Dread
Scott tactic once again. They deny the rights of the Constitution to those of conservative patriotic pursuasion the so called MAGA movement.
As Dred Scott inflamed the nation with its blatant disregard of the Constitution so progressive democrats today are inflaming the nation with their tyranny.
160 years ago our nation was driven into civil war by those who insisted on restricting full citizenship to themselves. Without a full redress of grievences by those parties injured by progressive tyranny another terrible war will be needed.
God save our nation from its tyrants.
“Without a full redress of grievences by those parties injured by progressive tyranny another terrible war will be needed.”
The new civil war started a while back, but only one side is fighting... and wiping the floor with the other (us).
Good post and I really do believe that the outcome you mention is probably the only way to deal with it.
Though I doubt Americans have the stomach for it anymore.
Where did all the oil go? Had to cut off 10 inches of hair for a job interview. The cutter babe threw it in a 55 gallon drum which would be shipped to the gulf coast. She said hair soaks up oil better than anything else. I did my part.
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