200,000 Gallons A Day

[RICHARD]

I love virgin olive oyl.


Popeye ruined if for me.


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Did you say something?

[Lady's Human]

Who's deep in the pockets of the oil companies?

For thirty years we've listened to politicians bleat about our dependence on foreign oil.

Nuclear power is a legit option.......but it was killed by trial lawyers and hollywood overreacting to an accident which wasn't a disaster, it was a proof of concept.

A plant had a catastrophic failure, and a bunch of people got the radiation equivalent of an extra dental X-ray.....if they were living a mile or less from the plant. Result? Panic, lawsuits and essentially the destruction of an industry which COULD have reduced our dependence on oil.

Inshore drilling? Nope, can't do it, too dangerous.

Offshore drilling? Nope can't do it, too dangerous.

Coal? Nope, can't do it, too dangerous and too much pollution, regardless of how the smokestack emissions are handled.

Hydro? Nope, can't do it, regardless of how fish friendly we can make the dams.

Wind? Nope, can't do it, it will ruin our view. (Doesn't work all the time anyway)

Solar is impractical, low energy density and messy to construct...........unless of course, we do it in space, which we can't do, because NASA is just a waste of money we could use to guarantee another dependent generation of voters. Social programs are far more important than something that could actually give people gainful employment and solve a problem.



There are many alternatives to oil currently available............but people need to decide whether we're going to actually DO something, or just listen to another generation of political idiots bleating about a problem no one wants to really solve, because they are ALL to busy getting money from one group or another, which, in the long run, keeps us dependent on oil and guarantees that no solution will be USED. Note, not FOUND, USED!

[RICHARD]

There are many alternatives to oil currently available............but people need to decide whether we're going to actually DO something, or just listen to another generation of political idiots bleating about a problem no one wants to really solve, because they are ALL to busy getting money from one group or another, which, in the long run, keeps us dependent on oil and guarantees that no solution will be USED. Note, not FOUND, USED!

You forgot geothermal......

[Lady's Human]

I completely forgot geothermal.

Mea culpa.

I purposefully left out a few really freaky technologies which are possible, but not probable (MHD), or far too weather sensitive (Tidal, and a couple of really oddball thermal techs)

[RICHARD]

I completely forgot geothermal.

Mea culpa.

Just don't let it happen again....

[Puckstop31]

Who is blaming the President on a exclusive level?

Follow the money. You know, never let a crisis go to waste.


Obama authorizes a 2 billion dollar loan to Brazil's oil company, Petrobas. Petrobas is going to drill almost 1500 meters DEEPER than the Deepwater Horizon. (I thought the accident that happened was because it was to risky because it was too deep?) Better yet, who is Petrobas's largest shareholder? You guessed it... George Soros.

How much did ole' Georgy donate to Obama's campaign? Who is the real winner by just banning all offshore drilling? Hmmmmm....

From 2009... http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...120524166.html


Never let a crisis go to waste indeed. "Look over here! Lets beat up the 'evil' Texans. Never mind what's going on over there...."

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FWIW, BP indeed made mistakes. Seems to me they are paying for them. I wonder what will happen to the 'insiders' who also have a role in the blame trail?

Right... Some people are pathologically incapable of admitting a mistake. Bummer, because the best medicine is the kind that tastes bad.

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It's fun watching the worst administration in US history** flail away. Fun and yet so very sad that it took what is going on to wake the people up.

**That's saying something, considering what we have recently endured.


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Side note.... STILL with the out of context "doo doo" line? LOL I always wanted to be (in)famous.

[RICHARD]

http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmem..._oil_spill.php


It seems like deja vu all over again?

[blue]

Side note.... STILL with the out of context "doo doo" line? LOL I always wanted to be (in)famous.

It seems you have a fan.

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Why are so many people lining up to scapegoat BP? They arent the only ones who caused this mess. Everybody who hand a hand in this disaster that stood by and let it happen should be held accountable, and actually held accountable in a court of law not a Chicago style shakedown. Transocean, Haliburton, state and fed agencies who signed off on the permits and inspections, the MMS who gave the Deep Water Horizon a safety award all need to be called on the quarterdeck for this. The PotUS and Congress for not working around the Jones act to get the Dutch skimmers into the Gulf when they offered their assistance? Why are the feds hampering states efforts to contain the spill with skimmers and dredging up sand bars?

BP couldnt have dug up this amount of doo doo on their own.