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To: LibFreeUSA
Why do I have the feeling that burning off large amounts of oil on the water so close to land will just replace one problem with another.
I suspect most aquifers are safe since water normally runs from land to the oceans.
A million tons of sooty oil smoke however will blow in over land and a good portion will settle or rain down.
They should have used oil booms, berms and barges to prevent the oil from reaching land in the first place.
They had two months to prepare for this! They failed.

22 posted on 06/25/2010 6:44:24 AM PDT by BitWielder1 (Corporate Profits are better than Government Waste)
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To: BitWielder1

And they’re waiting for it to get closer to Tampa....because????


24 posted on 06/25/2010 6:46:22 AM PDT by Sacajaweau (What)
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To: BitWielder1

“They should have used oil booms, berms and barges to prevent the oil from reaching land in the first place.
They had two months to prepare for this! They failed.”

“O” was busy golfing and posturing angrily for the cameras.

The entire world is watching this American economic/environmental/political train wreck and also taking the measure (as they should have done previously) of this guy who is supposed to have a grip on things.

With every passing instant and with every delinquent, ill-conceived, ruinous and infuriating response, “O” is looking more and more like the arrogant, inexperienced and incompetent bungler that cautious Conservatives have known him to be from the start.

Like Russia, which is still reeling from their very public and dramatic political/military reverses in Afghanistan- this is an equally dramatic and public embarrassment for the American reputation for resourcefulness and technological superiority, and which we will be along time living down.

In his first term of office President Bush was confronted with the terrorist assaults on America. He surprised many and shocked some with his decisiveness and resolution. Even enemies of the Bush had to commend the resolute approach taken by a man they had challenged as having NO foreign policy experience.

By contrast, “O” is not surprising ANY Conservatives but I am sure that many Liberals are secretly dissatisfied and frustrated with the guy they supported.


38 posted on 06/25/2010 7:15:31 AM PDT by SMARTY ("What luck for rulers that men do not think." Adolph Hitler)
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