Man oh man....this is a HUGE Problem....Gas for the Centuries too come...if we don't blow it up....
Man oh man....this is a HUGE Problem....Gas for the Centuries too come...if we don’t blow it up....
In another post you said you were afraid I was reading doom reports. Since the media is not reporting because BP and the government are clamed up and manipulating the public experience to protect Obama, we have no choice but to read everything and see if is backed up or responsible. I try to only take in the stuff leaked out by scientists, published papers, oil experts and people in power.
Although I think the oil drum web site is interesting and useful from an oil well engineering stand point and I read it, I also know it is dominated by oil industry representatives who really, really need the public to continue supporting Gulf oil drilling. They give the impression that they are certain that once we cap this well, all is fine and dandy but we are just now scanning the bottom with sonar of the Gulf to see if the sea bed is stable beyond the oil well over the whole deposit. People here shout down Matt Simmons w/o any expertise or scientific information for such dismissal of his observation concerning the “river” of red goo oil found in the Gulf exceeding in quanity of oil leaking from the well head. I think accusing him of only wanting to make money on BP stock is stupid industry political slogan material. That dummy stuff does not cancle what he is saying. It is like excusing Clinton or the Black Panters voter intimidation case with “everybody does it” slogans.
This is what happens with people are deprived of valid information. Check out old Haley Barber make an ass of himself playing down the seriousness of this disaster to keep tourist money flowing in this news clip. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Bj_kco8qTQ&feature=player_embedded
He spent huge political capital running his mouth without knowledge of the dangers of corexit in the water and acting like Mississippi was immune to oil invasion from a little oil leak. Just the usual few “tar balls.” Democrats are going to ruin him with this show of ignorance showing him running his tourist industry mouth with background pics of oiled beaches and marshes in Mississippi. Ole Haley should have been reading some “conspiracy” sites to find the public health information available on corexit and the magnitude of this leak before opening his big mouth. I can’t believe he was stupid enough to do this - unless he only listens to self interested shills and was misled! Many web sites were ridiculing and laughing at him because they had more accurate info and common sense.
So anyway, you are right that I scour as much as I can on what has been written and documentated about this disaster and that includes data gathered from “conspiracy” sites. I don’t believe in the wild conspiracies, but if they have valid data amid the nutty stuff, I collect it and research that information futher. It is like mining for nuggets of information. I really don’t think the concern for human life plays a pivital role (like it does in my value system) in a cost benefit analysis that is being used for decision making on the use of corexit or in closing down the beaches for swimming. I don’t think they are being honest with people on the implications the disaster in the food supply and in human health. In addition, it is about time they scanned the deposit on the sea floor to document the extent of sea bed compromises so they can stop shouting down Matt Simmons with dummy stock market slogans.