Posted on 07/21/2010 2:23:16 PM PDT by blam
Matthew Simmons: "We've Now Killed The Gulf Of Mexico"
Gus Lubin
Jul. 21, 2010, 3:50 PM
Matthew Simmons has been saying the spill is worse than anyone admits for weeks, and he hasn't been wrong yet.
Today he tells Bloomberg we've now killed the Gulf of Mexico.
Simmons says the leak is much bigger than the cameras show thanks to a big gushing hole around ten miles from the sunken rig:
"What we dont know anything about is the open hole which is caused by the drill bit when it tossed the blow-out preventer way out of the hole and 120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico. So what theyre talking about is the biggest environmental cover-up ever. And they knew that that well, that riser, would finally deplete. And then they could say its over. And unfortunately, we now have killed the Gulf of Mexico.
Oil could decimate aquatic life by depleting oxygen and poisoning the food chain. This would also kill the $2.2 trillion Gulf economy.
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I just post'em.
He’s completely full of shiite, but we knew that.
Someone needs to tell Simmons his 15 minutes is up. Pretty soon CNN and MSNBC will stop returning his calls.
Isn’t the oil that spilled into the Gulf organic?? I mean, it wasn’t processed.
Haven’t other areas with spills of similar intensity eventually returned to their form state?
Well, time will tell.
This ole Earth has recovered from much worse and Mother Nature recovers how she will.
And Carl Rove was behind this how?
Honestly, just waiting for the Halliburton shoe to drop.
He’s gone off the rails. I think the whole blowup of global warming first and now the peak oilers has unhinged him.
I don’t believe Mr. Simmons at this point.
I’m headed out to navarre Beach this weekend, and I intened to get in the water.
Full of shiite just because of nonsensical sentences like this....
“120,000 minimum of toxic poison has now covered the floor of the Gulf of Mexico..”
Exactly 120,000 minimum whats? Tablespoons, barrels, gallons, metric liters,...?
As opposed to what, exactly?
Wouldn't non-toxic poison be kind of pointless?
We too are headed to South Walton or the Grand Hotel at Point Clear first of August.
folks get pretty worked up
I thought oil and gas is lighter than water? Isn’t that why we are skimming the surface? So what is on the floor that has destroyed the gulf?
In five to ten years there will be little if any sign of this disaster, gulf life will flourish again and people like Simmons will have gone on to promote yet another one of their favorite boogeymen.
Well...If he won’t eat any more gulf seafood, he can always “eat mor chikin”.
I was at Sandestin from Friday to yesterday and it was beautiful. Wonderful.
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