” OBAMA DITHERED! PELICANS WITHERED!!!”
Obama is now -—NOW—trying to help the Pelicans!
SAVE THE PELICANS! IMPEACH OBAMA!!!
"The latter announcement restricted more areas than it allegedly opened and was seen as a ploy to get votes for cap-and-trade legislation, which would restrict fossil fuel use, increase energy prices, reduce gross domestic product and increase joblessness. Administration animus toward fossil fuels is well known."
Convenient for obama... if it was an accident.
People have been fed the line that absolute security is possible. The world remains a chancey place, where reasonable risk must be taken. Stay in the cave, you starve.
Does everyone not remember that Obama was originally against offshore drilling? I think this is a Reichstag fire.
Not hardly. Chernobyl and the surrounding area will be deadly radioactive for 10,000 years.
This Gulf spill will be a footnote in 5 unless people overreact.
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Louisiana Spill: Big Oil’s Chernobyl?
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Speaking of Chernobyl, I NAIVELY wonder if a “sarcophagus” is also
an answer to the current problem.
My “Okie” thought is to drop a decent-sized reinforced concrete dome
over the outlet...and pile tons of steel beams on top of it.
Any thought folks?
Sure, it might just slow the outflow of crude...but if the current
workers can’t find another way to stop/slow the flow...
I’m sure there are practical/physical reasons this is just my dumb musing.
As a Jewess in the US, I believe the platform was sunk by a North Korean Stealth Torpedo, the 2nd test of the same type that they used to take out the South Korean Navy ship last month.
5000 gallons a day are leaking from that well. Every day, for as long as humans have been on the Earth, 5000 gallons of oil leaks from the floor of the Gulf of Mexico into the ocean. Mother Nature cleans that mess up just fine. Quit freaking out people.
Has anyone seen a decent graphic of any kind that shows approximately what the wreck looks like on the seabed, it’s relation to the wellhead and what debris they think is over the leak?? If you do please link or post it...
I would expect that every single marine salvage expert in the Country is on the scene or on the way, and there is a lot of high tech equipment out there in the industry that can accomplish some fairly amazing things.
Remember how we heard the oil fires in Kuwait would burn for a decade?? How long did it end up being in the end...8 months?
This is an unfolding disaster, but it is still manageable. I see no reason to compare this to Chernobyl in any way, and I have no reason whatsoever to believe this “crisis” will go on for anywhere near as long as Chernobyl has.
This is making a Gawd-awful mess but the sky is not falling.
Obama lied, seagulls died.
I thought the Exxon Valdez was the oil industry’s Chernobyl.
I think the oil rig explosion will be found to have been a surge of highly pressurized gas that entered the pipeline (remember the depths that we're talking about) and was larger than the equipment could handle.
Other than never being 100% certain of what the subsurface looks like, I'm betting that this took the workers by surprise. I think they were following procedurs by the book, but they got hit by that that 0.001% uncertainty that still exists when don't know for sure what it looks like under the surface.
-PJ
As a Jewess in the US, I believe the platform was sunk by a North Korean Stealth Torpedo, the 2nd test of the same type that they used to take out the South Korean Navy ship last month.
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Yes, Big Oil’s Chernobyl. Maybe it would pave the way for the increase in popularity of synthetic fuels.