Spill, baby spill....42,000 gallons a day

[Chris]

With a vast oil slick now within only 20 miles of the ecologically fragile Louisiana coastline, Coast Guard officials said they were considering a “controlled burn” of the petroleum on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico.

Rear Adm. Mary E. Landry, the federal on-scene coordinator for the spill, said such a burn might be conducted as soon as Wednesday.

A joint government and industry task force has been unable to stop crude oil from streaming out of a broken pipe attached to a well 5,000 feet below sea level. The leaks were found Saturday, days after an oil rig to which the pipe was attached exploded and sank in the gulf about 50 miles southeast of Venice, La. An estimated 42,000 gallons a day are now spilling into the Gulf of Mexico.

Officials said Tuesday that wind projections indicated that the oil would not reach land in the next three days, and it was unclear exactly where along the Gulf Coast it might arrive first.

Concern Grows About Impact of Gulf Oil Spill - NYTimes.com

 

[Mr. H.]

I got a baaaaad feeling about this.

Wonder why they didn't do the controlled burn earlier.

The relief well alone w/cost $100mil.
RIGZONE - BP's Relief Well to Halt Oil Spill Will Cost $100MM

 

[Amanda]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

 

[Stephanie]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

yep. gawd liberals are stupid.

 

[Tom Clancy]

Spill baby spill?

I'm guessing your considering this as a Victory against Off Shore Drilling eh?

 

[Amanda]

Spill baby spill?

I'm guessing your considering this as a Victory against Off Shore Drilling eh?

Of course they are.

 

[Article 15]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

What a dumb post.

 

[RetiredGySgt]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

What a dumb post.

No what is stupid is blocking off shore drilling because of an accident. What is even dumber is titling this thread in the manner was done. I notice you made no comments about either of those now did you?

 

[Article 15]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

What a dumb post.

No what is stupid is blocking off shore drilling because of an accident. What is even dumber is titling this thread in the manner was done. I notice you made no comments about either of those now did you?

Unless you can see invisible posts of mine, no, I did not.

But then again you didn't say anything about Amanda's dumbass post so your have about this ---><--- much room to talk, jackass.

 

[Xenophon]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

What a dumb post.

Why?

 

[Article 15]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

What a dumb post.

Why?

Uh ... the spill didn't occur naturally, is 80 by 40 miles wide, and an ecological nightmare yet she wants to minimalize it like it's no biggie and it will just work itself out without our help ... in a few decades, of course.

 

[Xenophon]

What a dumb post.

Why?

Uh ... the spill didn't occur naturally, is 80 by 40 miles wide, and an ecological nightmare yet she wants to minimalize it like it's no biggie and it will just work itself out without our help ... in a few decades, of course.

It is no big deal, there are oil spills all the time.

Did you know the North sea is filled with off shore rigs?

That they are all over the gulf and more are coming?

In 91 Saddam dumped tons of it in the persian gulf and lit off even more, and it didn't take 'decades' to clean up.

The entire thread is obviously a gotcha attempt against people who want energy independance by using our own resources.

I can promise you the chinese won't be thinking safty first when they build the rigs for Cuba that will drill for our oil.

Either way someone will get at that oil, we can benifit from it or play our usual game of maximum stupid and hamstring ourselves because there might be an accident.

 

[Ravi]

Small ray of sunshine, Florida GOPer pols are rethinking drilling off the coast of Florida.

 

[Xenophon]

Why do you view our economic suicide as good news?

 

[Ravi]

Why do you view our economic suicide as good news?

It's not economic suicide. There isn't enough oil off the coast of Florida to make a dent in our thirst. Matter of fact, it's economic suicide to pretend that there is.

 

[Old Rocks]

Economic suicide is what we committing at the moment. We use 25% of the worlds oil, and only have 3% of the reserves. No matter how much we drill, we cannot satisfy the demand. Now that India and China have economies that are coming online, the demand for oil is going to be very much greater, at the time that the major fields are in decline.

The Hubbert Peak Oil curve is a fact. Hubbert, a geologist predicted to within a year, as to when the oil production in the US would peak, over twenty years before it did. Now there are other sources of oil, tar sands, oil shale, but all are very expensive, economically and eocologically, to process.

We have ample energy, sunlight, wind, wave, current, and geo-thermal. But we have to develop the technology to take advantage of them. For certain applications where we need really concentrated energy that diesel represents, we can use algal, and even engineered bacteria, to produce it from waste, sewage, plant waste.

We have had really good electric vehicles in this nation as early as 1994, and the continued work and building of those vehicles was prevented by Chevron and GM.

 

[Old Rocks]

The people whose livehood is dependent on the seafoods from the Gulf are quite worried about what this is going to do to those resources.

As the effects of this disaster ripple through the whole of the Gulf communities, I think you are going to see a decided decline in enthusiasm for off shore drilling.

 

[Chris]

Another "who cares?" story.

The earth has oil in it. Sometimes it gets into the water. BFD. The earth will take care of it regardless of whatever we do.

Another clueless post from Amanda.

 

[pAr]

Did you know?

The Black Sea is relocated in Louisiana.
A seagull full of oil can not fly any faster.
If you drink up from oil spill you will fart fire.
Nemo has decided to open his own gas station.
Today a dolphin was born with an exhaust pipe.

 

[Ravi]

Now the powers that be are going to try to burn it before it reaches shore.

That should be fun.