Don't forget the Saudis.
Frowning takes 68 muscles.
Smiling takes 6.
Pulling this trigger takes 2.
I'm lazy.
Posted on 06/14/2010 7:20:31 PM PDT by PennsylvaniaMom
Could the reason for the 'hide behind the Jones Act' strategy of Duh Won be not one of Union appeasement (hardline adherence to the the Jones Act--waived by GWB in Katrina) or not even Greenie homage...could it be that the lack of media access, the stoppage of all flyovers, be due to the Horizon Deep Water leak being much, much more profound than originally reported?
The Boyz at HillBuzz pose the question, via an article posted by The Oil Drum (link to TOD also attached).
That is my guess, they dont want them to see how bad it really is. Why else would they turn don free help?
The word over at “the oil drum” (an internet forum for oil workers to discuss various topics) is that BP engineers believe the well casing has been ruptured and is leaking under the sea floor. That means unless the relief wells work we are going to be dealing with one hell of an epic problem. If the well casing is ruptured, there is no way to kill the well from the top down.
So if that theory is true than is Obama in on the cover-up?
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I’m having a rough time tonight on the spelling. Hahahaha
Occam’s Razor...
That is the theory that HillBuzz (and alot of their posters) are floating. Is the big ‘keep away’ a postponement of the inevitable? Is the actual situation being kept from us...for the political end game of Cap and Tax?
It is likely that it is much worse, as the discussion indicates. The turning away of help has a simpler explanation. The use of millions of gallons of dispersants from NALCO means that the booms and sweeps will not work. Instead, it will travel much further underwater before hitting the beach with the toxic chemicals in tow. All this so Soros, Lehman, and Goldman-Sachs can get profits.
That’s not good.
I agree.
//The use of millions of gallons of dispersants from NALCO means that the booms and sweeps will not work. Instead, it will travel much further underwater before hitting the beach with the toxic chemicals in tow//
Exactly, on top of that they suspect that this well has high concentrations of Benzene and toluene type compounds etc., which are both highly toxic and water soluble from what I read.
Unfortunately none of them could say with any certainty just how much oil is in the reserve in question because, for one thing, the oil industry and secrecy have always been synonymous.
According to BP data from about five years ago, there are four separate reservoirs containing a total of 2.5 billion barrels (barrels not gallons). One of the reservoirs has 1.5 billion barrels. I saw an earlier post here quoting an Anadarko Petroleum report which set the total amount at 2.3 billion barrels.
they can kill it halfway down thats a relief well.
Don't forget the Saudis.
Disclaimer: I am not a prodigy college professor, nor have I spent a night recently in a Holiday Inn Express!!
When the Senate failed to pass the resolution (53-47) shutting down the EPA calling Carbon Dioxide a pollutant and regulating it, Cap and Tax became nearly inevitable. Of course, you had to be watching C-SPAN2 to catch that, not one of the 'blowout' news channels.
Never waste a crisis, dontchaknow? .
not to quibble, but a barrel is 55 gallons
Don’t forget, those folks at the Oil Drum are peak oil advocates, and therefore considered crazy by most here at FR
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