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High Prices Fetched By Gas, Oil, See Roughnecks Working Longer, Harder, Dying More Often
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- If the equipment fails and you are in the wrong place, then you may end up being in the wrong two or more places.
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Posted by ibsteve2u at 12:20 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Sorry. I replaced any and all equipment and tools that out lived their life spans. Weather a frayed cable, a wrench that had too many hours on them, doesn''t matter.
I got rid of old tools, and made dam sure no one else could just pick them and re-use them either. In other words, I took out of service, so nobody would/could get hurt by it.
And that''s just one aspect of safe drilling methods. - Reply to this comment
- What would a dead Iraqi Oilworker count for?
Posted by TheVicar1 at 12:23 PM : Sep 11, 2008
lolll...when you get right down to it, there are something like two hundred thousand Iraqis dead due to oil field accidents since 2003...
They accidentally got in between Bush, Cheney, & PNAC, LLP and Iraqs oil fields. - Reply to this comment
- Tsk, tsk...now I also doubt your claim that your I.Q. is 178 - anyone who is that intelligent would never resort to stereotypical arguments while making gross assumptions.
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Posted by ibsteve2u at 12:05 PM : Sep 11, 2008
First, I get called Sparky and then a "Tsk, tsk". You Dems are just eating me alive here. If you read the posts the "stereotypical arguments while making gross assumptions" started with "Every moron, imbecile and brain dead person can drive a large SUV" and "The average IQ of a Hummer owner is 72."
I tell ya, I come to your Liberal News web site and you guys can''t touch me. I''m on your turf and and I haven''t got one intelligent reply. Just "spark and Tsk,tsk"? WOW! They should make you people pass a test before the let you vote. - Reply to this comment
- DOES THIS COUNT THE IRAQ AN OTHER OVERSEAS OILFIELDS? ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by bluestardad
What would a dead Iraqi Oilworker count for? - Reply to this comment
- And if drillers are missing them (fingers), well he was not practicing safe drilling methods.
Posted by slim1h2o at 12:16 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Now, you cannot say that...if you have worked in any heavy industry, then you know that anybody who uses a tool - particularly a powered tool - is vulnerable to the failure of the safety features of a tool or the failure of the tool itself.
If the owners of the equipment are under such pressure to fulfill commitments - or are simply seeking the additional profits - and fail to maintain or replace equipment as they should, then I don''t care how safe you play it...
If the equipment fails and you are in the wrong place, then you may end up being in the wrong two or more places. - Reply to this comment
- DOES THIS COUNT THE IRAQ AN OTHER OVERSEAS OILFIELDS?
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- And that will seriously harm - or even end - the lives of their grandchildren, if not their children, too ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by ibsteve2u
Good arguement, except, I dont have any kids...
So BRING ON THE GASS HOGGS!!!
I aint a Human Being, Im an automobile,
give me water for my radiator -
Of Gasoline and Oil, I can NEVER get my fill,
because I guzzle like an Aligator!!! - Reply to this comment
- Posted by cbscrash07 at 12:12 PM : Sep 11, 2008
I used to drill in the environmental industry myself, and I''m not missing any fingers.
And if drillers are missing them (fingers), well he was not practicing safe drilling methods. - Reply to this comment
- Its not like you can run over your own kids! They would pull a John Ramsey on you, and accuse you of wanting to hurt them!
Oil, Oil, Oil,
Drifting in the Sea...
Dont buy it at the Station,
you can have it now for FREE,
just come on down to the Shoreline,
where the water used to be!!!
Posted by TheVicar1 at 12:07 PM : Sep 11, 2008
The "drillers" have a rather two-faced approach to their children.
On the one hand, they drive Hummers and tout how much safer their children are as a result.
On the other hand, they could care less about the extra pollution their Hummers put out, or the extra fuel that they burn that will cause oil to run out faster - hastening the day that global food and pharmaceutical shortages, among other things, result from the scarcity of the oil needed to make fertilizers, drugs, plastics, and so on.
And that will seriously harm - or even end - the lives of their grandchildren, if not their children, too.
The bottom line is that Republicans and "drillers" are all about "me" and "now" - and they don''t expect to be alive "in the future" to see the results of their selfishness and myopic vision afflict humanity. - Reply to this comment
- More oil rigs mean more oil industry deaths.
More drug use....guess what? More ODs
More Liberals = more brain death.... ----------------------------------------- Posted by listenupfool
except that Brain-Dead Liberals are a renewable resource - Reply to this comment
- Sometimes I work with drillers. We install environmental groundwater monitoring wells. Most of the drillers I have met are missing at least one finger. Drilling is very dangerous. It involves lifting very heavy pipes or drill stems high over head. If a cable snaps your screwed. As drilling increases there will be more accidents and sadly loss of life. However it is wrong to attack the oil industry over this. We drill for many reasons. One is environmental monitoring and I don''t see any body bad mouthing the environmental industry because a driller lost his life.
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- Oil, Oil, Oil,
Drifting in the Sea...
Dont buy it at the Station,
you can have it now for FREE,
just come on down to the Shoreline,
where the water used to be!!!
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Posted by TheVicar1 at 12:07 PM : Sep 11, 2008
If you''re capable of refining it, go ahead.
I do like your poem though.:) - Reply to this comment
- Ha, ha. Try it that way and see how long you last in the business! What a moron. Its a science and an art combined ------------------------------------------------------ Posted by whatwhy001
Riiiiight! Like sweeping a floor, or driving a cab, huh?
Oil - - just like a juice box...
Stick straw in hole and sukk! Gee, Alfred Einstien must have worked all the details out!
GIVE
ME
A
BREAK!!! - Reply to this comment
- Gloating over the thought of crushing a Prius - likely full of somebody elses children? Yup, you are a natural born Republican ------------------------------------------------ Posted by ibsteve2u
Its not like you can run over your own kids! They would pull a John Ramsey on you, and accuse you of wanting to hurt them!
Oil, Oil, Oil,
Drifting in the Sea...
Dont buy it at the Station,
you can have it now for FREE,
just come on down to the Shoreline,
where the water used to be!!! - Reply to this comment
- hey ibsteve2u, you may notice that i said "if you hit me with your Prius". and you are correct, I will protect my children first unlike a Dem who wants the "whole village" to protect all the children equally. How nice. I have worked hard to provide safety and security for my family. how about you, counting on other peoples taxes I suppose?
Posted by biger-e at 12:03 PM : Sep 11, 2008
Tsk, tsk...now I also doubt your claim that your I.Q. is 178 - anyone who is that intelligent would never resort to stereotypical arguments while making gross assumptions. - Reply to this comment
- hey ibsteve2u, you may notice that i said "if you hit me with your Prius". and you are correct, I will protect my children first unlike a Dem who wants the "whole village" to protect all the children equally. How nice. I have worked hard to provide safety and security for my family. how about you, counting on other peoples taxes I suppose?
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- Oh no, he called me "Sparky". not Sparky.. I hate it when peole call me Sparky...... That''s all you got?
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- Really? I drive a Hummer and my IQ is 178. And it gets 20 MPG, pulls my boat, and keeps my children safe. You are bumming if you hit me with you Prius pal.
Posted by biger-e at 11:38 AM : Sep 11, 2008
Gloating over the thought of crushing a Prius - likely full of somebody else''s children?
Yup, you are a natural born Republican. - Reply to this comment
- Every moron, imbecile and brain dead person can drive a large SUV.
The average IQ of a Hummer owner is 72.
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Posted by george2221
Really? I drive a Hummer and my IQ is 178. And it gets 20 MPG, pulls my boat, and keeps my children safe. You are bumming if you hit me with you Prius pal. - Reply to this comment
- It is unconscionable that 600 people have died between 2002 and 2007 in America''s oil fields! Surely this situation can be rightfully compared with the sad times our nation experienced before child-labor laws and labor unions were created to safe-guard employees against greedy, uncaring business owners and managers. (Of course, some labor-unions have now become greedy as well, but that''s another story.) This story should inspire any decent American to rally oil companies and the Government to insist that working conditions and worker training significantly improve to protect employees, with stiff penalties enforced for all who break the rules. In addition, drug-testing should be mandatory, as it is in most companies that care about the integrity of their companies as well as their workers. For those who question such moves for fear of gas prices increasing, they should ask themselves how THEY would feel if it were them, or their loved-one, who died as a result of so much outrageous neglect.
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