Posted on 09/14/2008 1:29:45 PM PDT by My Favorite Headache
This was just breaking on ABC 13 out of Houston...AP reports platforms discovered to be destroyed along with platforms.
Follow the story live on this link:
http://www.maroonspoon.com/wx/ike.html
They are doing live recoveries of Bolivar right now which has been leveled and the platform story is just breaking out as they are talking.
Platforms destroyed along with pipelines...* repeated myself above.
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Oh oh...
Good news for The Associated Press and the rest of the BrainDeadMedia.
Can’t get the video. Is this because of hurricane?
Bushes fault.
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...
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/livenow?id=6384042
Relax
if “drilling for more oil will only help by a few cents”, then dropping a few rigs shouldn’t hurt either...right?
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.
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.
Congressman Billybob
Tenth in the ten-part series, "The Owner's Manual (Part 10) -- The Remaining Amendments"
Let’s start selling those strategic reserves... /sar
KHOU said yesterday that at least two drilling platforms were free-floating in the gulf, according to federal sources.
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
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.
Given the mnagnitude of what's happening, that is funny.
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.
Those types are suppose to float,they’re anchored.
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