AP Breaking: Platforms and Pipelines Destroyed In Gulf of Mexico

ABC 13 Houston ^

[My Favorite Headache]

Platforms destroyed along with pipelines...* repeated myself above.

[ConservativeMan55]

bump

[Aria]

Oh oh...

[Chunga]

Good news for The Associated Press and the rest of the BrainDeadMedia.

[GOP Poet]

Can’t get the video. Is this because of hurricane?

[glorgau]

Bushes fault.

[Keith in Iowa]

Can we hold off on thinking the worst has happened til we find out what has really happened?

Sure there’s going to be damage - but how much, and how it will ultimately impact supply is still an unknown.

But meanwhile, the media will sensationalize the crap out of what little they do know, until they find out they didn’t need to get so excited...

[Perdogg]

Markets don’t appeared worried.

http://www.bloomberg.com/energy/

[BossLady]

Local Houston station online just explained that early assessment does not look good for pipelines. Also, rescue workers not getting the FEMA help with water and food....local congressperson livid that busses with supplies are sitting around. There are also some areas that no one has been able to get into yet. Dire situation for some.

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/livenow?id=6384042

[CrappieLuck]

Relax

if “drilling for more oil will only help by a few cents”, then dropping a few rigs shouldn’t hurt either...right?

[gidget7]

Exactly right. It may be a easily replaced platform, and minor damage, easily fixed if it is a pipeline. Until the co. that owns it tells us, we should ignore the media hype.

[Congressman Billybob]

How MANY might be destroyed? There are about 3,000 platforms in the Gulf. We know that two are loose and drifting. If another 3 or 4 are damaged like this, that's no big deal.

Only if 50 to 75 have serious damage, and many others have slight damage, is this bad news given the size of hurricane Ike. (It was the size of Texas.) If the damage is relatively slight, this is GOOD news, not BAD news.

But then, the AP was never very good at providing the context of the stories it was allegedly reporting.

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[Carling]

Let’s start selling those strategic reserves... /sar

[lainie]

KHOU said yesterday that at least two drilling platforms were free-floating in the gulf, according to federal sources.

[UCFRoadWarrior]

I am sure the Enviro Nazis and their supporters in both the GOP and DNC will try to use this to pass anti-American based Enviro laws....

As long as the drills and bits arent damaged, then things will be ok. Platforms are expensive but easier to replace

[GoSarah]

Well, if you look at it this way... if you CAN’T use oil... that’s a lack of demand in itself... and the price oil goes down.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

...allegedly reporting.

Given the mnagnitude of what's happening, that is funny.

[The_Media_never_lie]

What could have possibly happened to the pipelines?

They flooded?

They blew over like a house of cards?

They were carried away into the firmament? The rapture.

The were burst by the wind and rain. The rupture.

The media needs to be more specific. I have a hard time visualizing how a hurricane could destroy something as heavy as a pipeline. Damaged, maybe, but not destroyed.

[silentreignofheroes]

Those types are suppose to float,they’re anchored.