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1 posted on 08/31/2005 6:53:26 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves
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To: Mr. Jeeves

well that isn't as bad as it could be..

At least the LOOP is ok.


2 posted on 08/31/2005 6:54:18 PM PDT by MikefromOhio (Ohio State (-15) vs. Miami of Ohio, September 3rd)
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Darn looters.


3 posted on 08/31/2005 6:54:24 PM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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Ok, I promise to have the rig I took back by monday.

I'm just trying to impress a chick over the weekend.


4 posted on 08/31/2005 6:55:22 PM PDT by flashbunny (Always remember to bring a towel!)
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20 out of 4000, not as bad as could have been


6 posted on 08/31/2005 6:55:48 PM PDT by msnimje
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What's that website for Willie Nelsons' corn oil/cooking oil/diesel fuel again?


JEDI.
8 posted on 08/31/2005 6:57:20 PM PDT by JediForce (DON'T FIRE UNTIL YOU SEE THE WHITES OF THE CURTAINS THEY ARE WEARING ON THEIR HEADS !)
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not 19? not 21? an oil rig is a pretty hard thing to lose when you have surface radar.


9 posted on 08/31/2005 6:57:56 PM PDT by Theophilus (Save Little Democrats, Stop Abortion)
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Why are we not drilling in ANWR? No hurricanes up there. Oh, because spoiled leftys want it left pristine....fine, pay $4 a gallon for gas....


10 posted on 08/31/2005 6:58:58 PM PDT by There You Go Again
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Fox just showed one of those platforms, washed up on a sandbar on Dauphin Island, AL, 60 miles away from where it was.


11 posted on 08/31/2005 7:01:18 PM PDT by CFC__VRWC ("Anytime a liberal squeals in outrage, an angel gets its wings!" - gidget7)
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Bush had the special forces blow them up to increase the revenues that
Haliburton takes in. It should be in the NYT by morning

/s

13 posted on 08/31/2005 7:03:19 PM PDT by MaxMax (God Bless America)
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Has anyone check the bario? I'll be they find at least three of them up on blocks...


14 posted on 08/31/2005 7:04:49 PM PDT by DoughtyOne (US socialist liberalism would be dead without the help of politicians who claim to be conservative.)
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beware of the scare reporting tactics!

The terms "Platforms and rigs" are NOT interchangeable.

Just as drudge reported the "loss" of 95% of the oil production this so-called report of "rigs and platforms" is a play on words for the biggest scare.

Drudge's report of 95% loss was only correct if you realize that with EVERY major storm, the platforms and rigs are evacuated for safety - some platforms keep skeleton crews aboard though. SO for almost every hurricane that goes through that region there is a major "loss of production"


16 posted on 08/31/2005 7:11:22 PM PDT by hombre_sincero (www.sigmaitsys.com)
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At least 20 oil rigs and platforms are missing in the Gulf of Mexico

Looters?

20 posted on 08/31/2005 7:26:08 PM PDT by Mike Darancette (Mesocons for Rice '08)
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On the other hand no one has spotted a blowout.


21 posted on 08/31/2005 7:31:19 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (France is an example of retrograde chordate evolution.)
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That's going to make the New Orleans off shore sailing regatta a little challenging since they use the rigs as turning marks.

The Old Media will probably ignore this hardship in their attempts to slant the news to generate sympathy for non yacht owners.

23 posted on 08/31/2005 7:41:29 PM PDT by bayourod (Blue collar foreign laborers create white collar jobs. Without laborers you don't need managers.)
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My company owns seven of them. I'm not sure we'll look that hard for them. They're located a couple hundred feet from their previous location, except they're now artificial reefs.


24 posted on 08/31/2005 7:44:16 PM PDT by Dog Gone
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I'm third generation oilfield and I know what a production platform is, and I know what a drilling rig is, but I'll be damn if I've ever seen an oil rig.


27 posted on 08/31/2005 7:48:52 PM PDT by HoustonCurmudgeon (I'm a Conservative but will not support evil just because it's "the law.")
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"We have confirmed at least 20 rigs or platforms missing, either sunk or adrift, and one confirmed fire where a rig was," Petty Officer Robert Reed of the Louisiana Coast Guard told AFP.

Lloyd of London will file for bankruptcy by Monday, I will bet!

28 posted on 08/31/2005 7:52:24 PM PDT by danmar ("No person is so grand or wise or perfect as to be the master of another person." Karl Hess)
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Great. Another excuse to raise oil and gas prices.


32 posted on 08/31/2005 7:57:20 PM PDT by metmom (Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
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