Follow along with the video below to see how to install our site as a web app on your home screen.
Note: This feature currently requires accessing the site using the built-in Safari browser.
Oh, my bad...I remembered incorrectly.Actually...it does. 25% of what we Americans eat as seafood comes from the Gulf Coast.I'm in Colorado, sweetie, there's no fucking way I'm getting Fresh Shrimp from the Gulf of Meico or anywhere else, and, frankly, don't really care that much: If I wanna eat a fish, I go pull a trout out of a river of flowing snowmelt.
If I wanna fly somewhere to Eat Fresh Seafood, I can go to Bubba Gump's House in South Carolina, or to California, or to Chesapeake Bay....Gulf Coast has no Monopoly on Shrimp.
So if this 25% gets destroyed then prices will go up for what is left to share around.
Not to mention that it is looking possible that the oil will get sucked into the gulf stream...and then you can kiss your Chesapeake Bay shrimp adios.
What an interesting figure:
"25% of what we Americans eat as seafood comes from the Gulf Coast."
I wonder how that works since according to the World Resources Institute "eighty percent of seafood consumed in the U.S. is currently imported."
A football field disappears from the Louisiana coast every hourRICH FISHERY
The river delta marshes help make the Gulf of Mexico one of the richest fisheries on earth. Fish and shellfish dependent upon estuaries supply 75 percent of the total annual seafood harvest in the United States. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the combined fish and shellfish harvest from the five Gulf states equals nearly 20 percent of the total U.S. domestic landings and 40 percent of the recreational finfish landings. Recreational anglers contribute billions of dollars each year to the economy.
In terms of what this oil spill means for the gulf coast and its long term effects it will be tragic for years to come and it's my hope that BP does step up to the plate and helps mitigate some the damage caused by this well. However, speculating on how engineers can seal off the flow of oil from this well is just that speculation, and I have every confidence that a solution will be found and the challenge will be met and the well sealed off. The after-effects of this spill will need to be addressed by cool heads and not by reactionary voices using this as a hammer or as a gotcha to further some agenda when the real tragic results of this spill will be the people living it. I frankly find it somewhat amusing everytime I hear from the extreme anti-petro side of this argurment they are doing so on a petro based product and no doubt at some tie duing the week consuming any number of products produced by that same industry all the while condemning its use for others except for themselves. It's prudent for our nation to move forward in a DIVERSE energy solution for the future and one that includes fossil fuels for the near term and using this tragic spill to promote favored solitions does not help in that promotion.
Ditto,
Was watching the news last night and it seems that engineers are trying to put together a dome to fit over the top of the leak. Don't know how that will work but at this point I think anything is worth a try.
As for how this happened? I find that very mysterious. I've heard of leaks being sprung on an oil rig but never that one had blown up.
The fact that Special Ops were sent to other rigs tells me that mayby the Govt knows something we don't and won't for quite some time.
Something to definetly think about.
If they're talking about fitting a dome over the leak that means they couldn't install a second BOP and they're going to have to drill a secondary well. IMO
Oh, my bad...I remembered incorrectly.
A football field disappears from the Louisiana coast every hourRICH FISHERY
The river delta marshes help make the Gulf of Mexico one of the richest fisheries on earth. Fish and shellfish dependent upon estuaries supply 75 percent of the total annual seafood harvest in the United States. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the combined fish and shellfish harvest from the five Gulf states equals nearly 20 percent of the total U.S. domestic landings and 40 percent of the recreational finfish landings. Recreational anglers contribute billions of dollars each year to the economy.
Regardless, you're still making an idiotic and incorrect point.
My point is that the USA is gonna survive pretty easily without Gulf Seafood: Recreational Anglers, can fish the PACIFIC or ATLANTIC Coasts, for cristssakes.
My point is that the USA is gonna survive pretty easily without Gulf Seafood: Recreational Anglers, can fish the PACIFIC or ATLANTIC Coasts, for cristssakes.
I had no idea the Gulf Coast was not part of the USA. Please explain.
That you're an idiot.Oh, my bad...I remembered incorrectly.
A football field disappears from the Louisiana coast every hourRICH FISHERY
The river delta marshes help make the Gulf of Mexico one of the richest fisheries on earth. Fish and shellfish dependent upon estuaries supply 75 percent of the total annual seafood harvest in the United States. According to the National Marine Fisheries Service, the combined fish and shellfish harvest from the five Gulf states equals nearly 20 percent of the total U.S. domestic landings and 40 percent of the recreational finfish landings. Recreational anglers contribute billions of dollars each year to the economy.
Regardless, you're still making an idiotic and incorrect point.
My point is that the USA is gonna survive pretty easily without Gulf Seafood: Recreational Anglers, can fish the PACIFIC or ATLANTIC Coasts, for cristssakes.
What's YOUR point?
My point is that the USA is gonna survive pretty easily without Gulf Seafood: Recreational Anglers, can fish the PACIFIC or ATLANTIC Coasts, for cristssakes.
I had no idea the Gulf Coast was not part of the USA. Please explain.
I had no idea anyone disputed that the USA had a Gulf Coast. Please Explain.
Nonelitist thinks that food is best served drenched in the fuel used to transport it.
That you're an idiot.Oh, my bad...I remembered incorrectly.
A football field disappears from the Louisiana coast every hour
Regardless, you're still making an idiotic and incorrect point.
My point is that the USA is gonna survive pretty easily without Gulf Seafood: Recreational Anglers, can fish the PACIFIC or ATLANTIC Coasts, for cristssakes.
What's YOUR point?
Right, you just expect others to give up their livelihoods so you can use oil.Nonelitist thinks that food is best served drenched in the fuel used to transport it.
I never ask someone else to change their life so that oil wasn't used....
I had no idea the Gulf Coast was not part of the USA. Please explain.
I had no idea anyone disputed that the USA had a Gulf Coast. Please Explain.
So its your contention the oil flow will not cause anyone's livelihood to be destroyed?
Ditto,
Was watching the news last night and it seems that engineers are trying to put together a dome to fit over the top of the leak. Don't know how that will work but at this point I think anything is worth a try.
As for how this happened? I find that very mysterious. I've heard of leaks being sprung on an oil rig but never that one had blown up.
The fact that Special Ops were sent to other rigs tells me that mayby the Govt knows something we don't and won't for quite some time.
Something to definetly think about.
If they're talking about fitting a dome over the leak that means they couldn't install a second BOP and they're going to have to drill a secondary well. IMO
I would agree with this assessment but add that the wellhead was damaged by the explosion. The concrete company is going to be sued by Trans-Ocean and BP. As far as what type of explosion it was and what caused it...that's better left to the investigators to uncover. As far as some type of foreign government covert op....that is just pure fantasy at this point.
I had no idea anyone disputed that the USA had a Gulf Coast. Please Explain.
So its your contention the oil flow will not cause anyone's livelihood to be destroyed?
Its my contention that its no big deal for the USA.
Individuals are affected every day by events beyond their control. Its my contention that most recover.
Right, you just expect others to give up their livelihoods so you can use oil.Nonelitist thinks that food is best served drenched in the fuel used to transport it.
I never ask someone else to change their life so that oil wasn't used....
SWAT was called in to round up everyone that discovers that muslim tree hugging kenyans were behind this so called accident and put them in FEMA camps.If they're talking about fitting a dome over the leak that means they couldn't install a second BOP and they're going to have to drill a secondary well. IMO
I would agree with this assessment but add that the wellhead was damaged by the explosion. The concrete company is going to be sued by Trans-Ocean and BP. As far as what type of explosion it was and what caused it...that's better left to the investigators to uncover. As far as some type of foreign government covert op....that is just pure fantasy at this point.
I'm confused as to why SWAT was called out though. Unless they're petrochemical engineers, they won't be much help in determing the cause or much help in figuring out a solution. I doubt eco-terrorist or anything like that was involved, but I wouldn't dismiss the notion altogether.
I had no idea anyone disputed that the USA had a Gulf Coast. Please Explain.
So its your contention the oil flow will not cause anyone's livelihood to be destroyed?
Its my contention that its no big deal for the USA.
Individuals are affected every day by events beyond their control. Its my contention that most recover.
So its your contention the oil flow will not cause anyone's livelihood to be destroyed?
Its my contention that its no big deal for the USA.
Individuals are affected every day by events beyond their control. Its my contention that most recover.
I agree with you, for example the site of the Exxon Valdez was cleaned up and proved to be a profitable fishing area after the cleanup.
Right, you just expect others to give up their livelihoods so you can use oil.Nonelitist thinks that food is best served drenched in the fuel used to transport it.
I never ask someone else to change their life so that oil wasn't used....
