erasmus111, I think you will be proven right, we will be dependent on your Canadian oil for the forseeable future....we certainly aren't going to be getting our own, any time soon.....so instead of Drill, baby, Drill....it will be Buy, baby, Buy !!! from OPEC and CN
Libs must be saddened, that these tar balls weren't from the oil rig after all.....sorry.....they were ringing their hands, just hoping the tar was from the spill.
Where are all the super tankers that BP owns or available in the world
to help pump up this oil floating around?? This is a disaster and the American People and our Government should be demanding these be sent.
BP is using them all some where else to make profit and saying to heck with the USA.
Our Government needs to act!!
We have in many ways accepted the conventional wisdom that the spill is about 5,000 gallons per day. But that is not the only estimate. According to experts cited in the New York Times, the flow could be as much as 3.4 million gallons a day. At that rate, and judging by the giant underwater oil plumes, this disaster has already spewn more oil then the Exxon Valdez. Here is the link:
Some have suggested that should not worry now, but wait until the oil comes ashore and have BP clean it up. But the time to act is now, and BP has done virtually nothing to stem this well. Once oil covers coastlines, the damage is virtually incalculable. And the oil already is killing fish, damaging the underwater ecology and has severely hampered the fishing and shrimping industry. I have heard no one, BP included, present a plan to recover the many millions of gallons of oil in those plumes. As I have said here a number of times, I am from Florida and have worked to clean off fouled sea birds, and watched many of them die. I am prepared to do it again - I have the ticket waiting and am ready to go. I hope many of you will share that commitment with me.
I should have said 5,000 barrels a day and quoted the Times estimate of as much as 80,000 barrels a day. Now that's apples to apples. Just setting the record straight.
Earth to space cadets: BP nor the US Federal Government has the technology to clean up this catastrophe. All the kings men and all the kings horses are not going to put this back together again. It WILL get worse. All the oil booms (Palin's Necklace)are a comforting factor but are useless in the near term. The majority of the oil remains under the surface of the ocean. Thanks to the more than the half a million gallons of dispersant the problem has been exacerbated.
Hurricane season is approaching. Where do the majority of hurricanes spawn on this side of earth? The answer is The Gulf of Mexico. Picture a blue ocean. Picture a dark dark smoke monster underneath it. Now add a big super mixer to agitate and mix these two together. See the white beaches. See the white beaches turn black. See the Florida keys, the comb of the Gulf get covered in more oil than all the sunbathers have for sun tanning. See the oil wander up the Gulf Stream, painting the beaches of Hatteras and the Northern States beyond New York.
To the Atlantic states: Say goodbye to shrimp. Say goodbye to lobster. Say goodbye to clams and oysters. Say goodbye to Tuna. Say goodbye to seafood in general for a long long time.
The truth hurts.
P.S. has anyone invited the top executives of B.P. to come over from England and experience this catastrophe? This should be made so.
Maybe this is a good time to become a vegan.
This is not a wild prediction. This is just an obvious observation.
Agree with you completely (see my above post). I suggested that Mr.Hayward, the CEO of BP, fly across the Atlantic, commercial coach rather than the corporate jet, and volunteer to clean up oil already on the coast and fouled water birds. It's the least he can do, get his hands dirty a bit.
Would've been nice if the liberals would've let us drill on land where we wanted to. Now look what happened. Thanks libs, you've ruined the Gulf and we're STILL not drilling where we need to be. We have to have oil until something better comes along. I'm just stressing this didn't have to happen in the ocean under a freaking mile of water. What's wrong with drilling the deposits in North Dakota and Anwar? Its done cleanly and much less expensively than deep water. And no giant oil spills. We have the reserves. Lets use them. I'm sure the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf would agree.
You are full of stink! Oil companies have land leases for oil. The size of the land leased and prospected with KNOWN viable oil deposits combined is greater in size than New Jersey. It's easy oil and if drilled would drop the price of oil into the $40 range so oil companies hold on to it.
B.P. had no intention of pulling oil from its well that caused this catastrophe. It was capping it for later use years from now. The oil companies are playing the market and playing us all, just like the De Beers manipulate diamond prices.
By your post I can see your Sarah Palin like insensitivity to ecology and the livelihood of all the people glean from the once pristine Gulf of Mexico.
By the way, in Brazil their laws for ocean drilling are far stronger than our. They require double the number of safety backup systems and if this well would have been in Brazilian waters, this catastrophe would have never happened.
Don't go back to smoking your pipe and reading slanted views from your political party and religious pamphlets. Please expand your mind and knowledge and join those who wish for responsible care of this spaceship Earth.
by uubrew12 May 18, 2010 7:14 PM EDT When you guys were chanting 'drill, baby, drill', it wasn't over land deposits. It was over offshore deposits
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The drilling we were promoting, was anywhere.....land or offshore, it doesn't matter.....the point is to get our own oil, instead of buying it from terrorist nations (OPEC)
Worry, wring hands, bite nails, shudder, shake, quake and do nothing until it hits land. Quit!! Just follow it and get volunteers to help clean it up. It ain't going away until we clean it up.
Suggestion: Have Not-For-Profit groups assemble and help clean up. BP could make a donation to the group or church and everyone is happy.
larrrrrr - The Exxon Valdez spilled over 10 Million gallons. There is almost 4 million gallons to date along with allot of news hype! Just get prepared to go down there yourself and help instead of complaining. Once it is capped BP will focus on the clean up.
You know TVO, your attitude confounds me at times. For the record, I am from Florida, spent most of my life being a conservationist there and fishing the Gulf. I already have spent time cleaning oil off of fouled sea birds, and watched some of them die, and I have a ticket set up to go again, service dog and all, and clean up the mess again. Judging from your remark, you will be making the same such commitment.
"Nearly two dozen tar balls have been found off Key West, Fla., the U.S. Coast Guard said, but the agency stopped short of saying whether they came from a massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico." -------
And where else, pray tell, might they have come from?
Yes, a few tar balls is a big deal. It's just the start of an onslaught of oil that will inevitably get into the loop current. Soon there will be blackened beaches, dead fish and reefs, oil covered sea birds, a shrimping industry brought to a standstill. And still the oil keeps on coming. This a disaster of momentous proportions.
Some Republicans are commenting this oil spill is no big deal...tar balls they say...well Repugs, put some tar balls in your house, or in your yard...or in yard aquarium..no big deal.
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...we certainly aren't going to be getting our own, any time soon.....
But you do have lots of other oil wells, don't you?
Libs must be saddened...
Okay, that's it! You're going to get a spankin' the next time you use the word "Lib" or "Liberals".
hey, I do all the spanking, especially for libs.
I'd make a deal and not use Lib, if noloyista doesn't use corporation for a day....does sissy, girlyman, or tree-hugger substitute for lib ? LOL
....does sissy, girlyman, or tree-hugger substitute for lib ? LOL
NO.
The Liberals are your fellow Americans and should be treated with RESPECT. : )
to help pump up this oil floating around?? This is a disaster and the American People and our Government should be demanding these be sent.
BP is using them all some where else to make profit and saying to heck with the USA.
Our Government needs to act!!
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/us/16oil.html?scp=3&sq=oil%20spill%20estimates&st=cse
Some have suggested that should not worry now, but wait until the oil comes ashore and have BP clean it up. But the time to act is now, and BP has done virtually nothing to stem this well. Once oil covers coastlines, the damage is virtually incalculable. And the oil already is killing fish, damaging the underwater ecology and has severely hampered the fishing and shrimping industry. I have heard no one, BP included, present a plan to recover the many millions of gallons of oil in those plumes. As I have said here a number of times, I am from Florida and have worked to clean off fouled sea birds, and watched many of them die. I am prepared to do it again - I have the ticket waiting and am ready to go. I hope many of you will share that commitment with me.
BP nor the US Federal Government has the technology to clean up this catastrophe. All the kings men and all the kings horses are not going to put this back together again. It WILL get worse. All the oil booms (Palin's Necklace)are a comforting factor but are useless in the near term. The majority of the oil remains under the surface of the ocean. Thanks to the more than the half a million gallons of dispersant the problem has been exacerbated.
Hurricane season is approaching. Where do the majority of hurricanes spawn on this side of earth? The answer is The Gulf of Mexico. Picture a blue ocean. Picture a dark dark smoke monster underneath it. Now add a big super mixer to agitate and mix these two together. See the white beaches. See the white beaches turn black. See the Florida keys, the comb of the Gulf get covered in more oil than all the sunbathers have for sun tanning. See the oil wander up the Gulf Stream, painting the beaches of Hatteras and the Northern States beyond New York.
To the Atlantic states: Say goodbye to shrimp. Say goodbye to lobster. Say goodbye to clams and oysters. Say goodbye to Tuna. Say goodbye to seafood in general for a long long time.
The truth hurts.
P.S. has anyone invited the top executives of B.P. to come over from England and experience this catastrophe? This should be made so.
Maybe this is a good time to become a vegan.
This is not a wild prediction. This is just an obvious observation.
B.P. had no intention of pulling oil from its well that caused this catastrophe. It was capping it for later use years from now. The oil companies are playing the market and playing us all, just like the De Beers manipulate diamond prices.
By your post I can see your Sarah Palin like insensitivity to ecology and the livelihood of all the people glean from the once pristine Gulf of Mexico.
By the way, in Brazil their laws for ocean drilling are far stronger than our. They require double the number of safety backup systems and if this well would have been in Brazilian waters, this catastrophe would have never happened.
Don't go back to smoking your pipe and reading slanted views from your political party and religious pamphlets. Please expand your mind and knowledge and join those who wish for responsible care of this spaceship Earth.
When you guys were chanting 'drill, baby, drill', it wasn't over land deposits. It was over offshore deposits
_______________
The drilling we were promoting, was anywhere.....land or offshore, it doesn't matter.....the point is to get our own oil, instead of buying it from terrorist nations (OPEC)
Suggestion: Have Not-For-Profit groups assemble and help clean up. BP could make a donation to the group or church and everyone is happy.
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And where else, pray tell, might they have come from?
Yes, a few tar balls is a big deal. It's just the start of an onslaught of oil that will inevitably get into the loop current. Soon there will be blackened beaches, dead fish and reefs, oil covered sea birds, a shrimping industry brought to a standstill. And still the oil keeps on coming. This a disaster of momentous proportions.
I'd say 3-6 inch tar balls are a problem, and a big deal.....I'm a conservative republican.