Posted on 05/22/2009 8:32:04 PM PDT by GodGunsGuts
Who Gets the Blame for This Oil Spill?
May 22, 2009 — Who could forget the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989, that leaked 10.8 million gallons of oil into Alaska’s pristine coastal waters? That mistake cost Exxon a billion dollars in damages for the ecological disaster it caused and sparked one of the biggest cleanup operations in history. Imagine 80 times as much. That’s how much oil scientists at UC Santa Barbara and Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute say is being leaked...
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“10.8 million gallons of oil”
Or 257,142 barrels of oil. I love reporting. Millions sounds so much more dramatic.
Let me guess: the next words are going to be
“by nature.”
Am I right?
Why couldn’t you have said it? Surely not because you needed three more vowels?
Quick; we need to drill this oil to save Santa Barbara from an ecological disaster, then sue Mother Nature Big Oil for damages. Where do you think all this oil came from? Now that we know the oil is coming out anyway, do you want to get something out it, like power for your car, or do you want it all to go to waste in sediments? Why should bacteria get all the energy from it?
Yeah. They could actually clean up the environment by drilling for oil there.
Millions ??? Mere millions ??? Man, that is *soooo* yesterday ... nowadays even *billions* is considered as a chump number ... nowadays TRILLIONS is the hip figure, "yeah baby, were throwing trillions at the problem .. that'll fix it"! :)
Thanks for the ping!
no no no. That oil was put there by mother nature. That oil was never touched by dirty human hands. That oil is OK to be there, its natural. We can’t drill that oil, the enviroment depends on it being there. Can’t you see that THAT oil is ok? Come on, you stupid conservatives, don’t you understand anything?? {sarcasm on, I think?}
“Yeah. They could actually clean up the environment by drilling for oil there.”
The rigs that have been there for decades and pumping oil are the only reason that you can go to a beach in So.Calif. and not get covered with tar.
When I was a kid every trip to the beach ended up in a tin washtub with scrub brush abd kerosene before I was allowed in the house.
Even into the 70s a trip from L.A to Catalina ended up with a tough scrubing to get te oil off the sides of the boat.
Take the 10% wellhead tax that Carter put on oil and the oilfields on land would reopen.
Drill the entire So. Calif. Coast and there would be hundreds of years of oil for the US without importing a drop.
Bush’s fault of course.
Oil seeps, along with Volcanic activity, and natural plant decay, mother nature has always coped.
Well not really, the exceptions being big meteors, pole flipping, and explosive vulcanisim... species have gone extinct. It is part of the natural order.
Man made global warming is a lie. C02 is not a polutant.
To those that destroy our way of life in pursuit of power, I will never be able to fathom what goes through your twisted minds.
Is it Eugenics? Hey eletists, if it were up to me, You’d be cleaning your own toilets, digging your own ditches, cutting your own lawns, and would have to bow for forgiveness every time you encounter one of the “Unwashed Masses”.
It's taken these rocket scientists this long to figure these things out????? Pump it for heaven's sake!
No wonder were in so much trouble.
Nam Vet
I was quite impressed by their obvious extensive research into this topic. However it was their citation of irrefutable scientific theory that was the icing on the cake.
The thought and man-hours that was put into that project is mind-boggling. If they keep that up there just might be a Nobel Prize in their future.
It pales in comparison to this:
http://www.mms.gov/omm/pacific/enviro/seeps1.htm
It’s been a while, but I researched how many ships were sunk during WWII. It was an incredible number. Imagine the oil spills they left and somehow didn’t destroy the planet.
Bump for later
Indeed. If they had been pumping it the last forty years, most of it would now be gone.
Let’s see now ... they’ve been pumping oil out of some oil field for well over a hundred years. But, I guess if you tell me the offshore fields would have been depleted by now, i guess I’m supposed to believe you.
The oil company I spent my career working for actually found an oil field off Santa Barbara about 20 years ago but was prevented from developing same by State and local authorities. It would have been prolific, justifying perhaps 3+ platforms (platforms require a lot of oil to be economically justified). I assure you they would still have been going strong ...
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