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Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster...
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Old 08-09-2010, 09:35 PM   #341
army_greywolf
*In the voice of my favorite Futurama character*

"Good news everyone, the oil spill is over. The well is capped and while yes there is 200 million barrels of unaccounted for light sweet crude in the gulf it is now ok for you to swim and fish the waters! "

So basically, Hi fives all around and a 500 billion dollar pat on the back for BP for doing such a good job handling things.

/sarcasm

Reality is, it still leaks. Now, it doesn't leak as much but it IS leaking, but not from the wellhead area, from the disturbed seabed from drilling a counterbore. The area around the two wells is seeping a couple hundred barrels of oil daily, far and away less than 50,000 sure, but it is.

Now for the bad news.

Where did 200 million barrels of oil go? Was it reclaimed and accounted for? My source says no, roughly 2 million barrels of oil have been reclaimed. Which is roughly 80% net crude. So really were looking at the use of more than 100,000,000 gallons of toxic dispersant (remember it's cheap BP saved loads by further pollution. Lest we forget "top kill" efforts caused more than a million gallons of oil to be released in a single day, for more than a week.

Anywho, I tallied what's left from all this mess. Now the numbers are off sure, but I'm only looking for averages and ballparks, it took me a good amount of research from various websites and news outlets as well as guys I know participating in the ferrying of dispersant from shore to boats.

Here's what we can figure on.

There is at least...

6,930,000,000 gallons of toxic dispersant saturated oil still unrecovered. (and undeposited on shorelines)

8,400 miles of shoreline still left to be "cleaned up".

20,000,000 gallons of toxic dispersant flowing along the sea beds with the currents.

13,000 fishing industry jobs as yet unrecovered (lost).

38,000 tourism industry jobs as yet unrecovered (lost)

950 miles of fair beach that is still posted as no swimming (fair beach is considered prime tourism area aka sandy, no rocks)

134,000,000,000 US Dollars lost within the Louisiana/MIssissippi/Alabama/Florida economy due to this spill...and counting.

5.5% increase in unemployment rates within affected states.

300% increase in health problems directly related to co-location within the affected spill area ranging from respiratory to ear nose and throat illnesses.

I personally have observed (I live 85 miles from the gulf shore) 7 instances where it has rained and produced an oil sheen. The idea was to sink the oil before it makes it to shore. It has because of this killed all sealife within the 40 foot seafloor area. Workers have observed sharks, tuna, sailfish, barracudas and other prize fish belly up dead. So much for the deep water fishing expeditions huh? Fishing guides? And I've wanted to go sail fishing since I was like 9. Twenty years later and looks like I never will.

So believe what you want, frankly and I say this with no bitterness to the position but Obama should be impeached, BP should have been fined to kingdom come and thrown out of our waters. And OSHA should be on every rig in our waters like hound dogs just looking to give steep freakin fines. Honestly you can add a quarter to the gallon to my gas price, I'll pay it with the notion that the industry is clamped down on for safety and operations.

Just remember, the wellhead broke off...somehow displacing the well casing, even though anyone with any sort of clue would reference Katrina where the gulf became a SALVAGE YARD of sunk rigs and rigs that broke off their wellheads and were found 15 miles off the coast of Mexico a year later. This sorta thing...it happens for a reason. BP was allowed to contain it for a reason.

Nationalization of the domestic supplies of oil means as an industry with measurable and controllable value the government would have a vested interest in ensuring they sunk their financial hooks into it and earned some more money "off the books".

Makes you wonder what's next.

My military background hastens back to a time not long ago when we wrote a new manual on rebuilding a government from scratch...like iraq. First the state takes control of the fuel, food and power. With that effected control they then use the military to secure an "election" where they purposely produce a weak candidate and make a HUGE deal about how great it is that the "common" man has a chance in office to make a difference for this people. Funny how this sounds right? Did you know it's an actual Field Manual for the US Army? The next phase is the most fun. Divide and conquer. Basically create a "cause" and see who takes which side, be it favorable to government or not. Then conquer those who are found to be unfavorable. This is done in two ways, first is re-education, which is how our current school system can create a cookie cutter citizen in twelve short years yanno, your super consumer, your facebook and twitter user the person who will tell EVERYONE about the things they just bought or what they are doing tomorrow. These same people will securely rack up credit card charges, buy homes above adjusted values, buy new cars, pay 40 dollars for a hair cut and 60 for a 1.1 ounce bottle of perfume. At the same time they will never vote for themselves but for the majority or really whatever TV tells them to do. These people work 45 hours and watch nearly half as much TV every week. But this doesnt work for everyone, so for the ones it doesnt effect, the government will twist you into a social dissentor, if they have to they will label you a terrorist, or below that, put their own veterans on no fly lists, they will pass Patriot acts and Homeland security acts under the notion that they can prevent an attack and that reading your tweets, emails, listening to your phone calls and tracking your location via your cellphone or for those with newer cars via your car's on board GPS, these same acts have allowed the 1700 percent increase in surveillance by audio or visual means in 8 short years. They track your purchases and you better believe they will watch your home if you make a couple back to back bulk ammo purchases online...(I know first hand but I am a competitive shooter I use alot of ammo.) At the same time they carry out no knock raids and make claims that what you observe in the privacy of your own home on your own computer is grounds for up to a decade in jail whether or not there is pretense.

The sad thing is, it's just getting started and the majority of the country couldn't be happier to be lead into the slaughterhouse to financial "dominion" a place where people go when the government controls your wage, your job, your expenses and incidental expending, they even want to control your debt and how it is applied to the above. Why? Because that's what lines the wallets of all the guys who pay lobbyists to make sure politicians vote the right ways on union, labor, safety, security and bank laws.

If your reading this going "wow your a nutcase" give it a few short years and ask me that again. I've said this all along, I'm the guy who said the market would bottom out at 6500 and then recover nearly as well as it was before all within a year...because that's what the government wants...I mean corporations want. It's a shift in power from one hand to the other and it's done on purpose generation by generation to ensure no single hand generates the sole wealth of the nation, it draws too much attention.

My prediction?

Isn't it obvious? Were getting ever closer to the retail clustermuck known as the xmas shopping season. It will be the worst in 60 years. It will be so bad the market will slump by 3,000 point between November and December. Then as if to pull out a magic hat the government will create a new strategy on the "battle against unemployment" likely in the form of temporary jobs cleaning up highways, replacing road signs, doing all kinds of min wage general laborer stuff with no extra benefits. Shortly thereafter the juggling of job to jobless and back again will soften the unemployment figures without actually doing ANYTHING except costing us more money this will cause a market recovery. Ohhh but what HAS it done? Nationalize the job market of course. Remember one step at a time and nobody notices. So whats next after that? Anyone have any guesses? I'll give you a hint it'll be a change to the registration of firearms and owners as well as restrictions to ammunition or possibly ammunition serialization. It didn't pass when they tried it in 2009 because of the economic situation, it'll be better received next spring I think...but I do hope it doesn't pass.
 
Old 08-10-2010, 02:18 AM   #342
Rich Z
Actually, I don't think he is a nutcase at all......
 
Old 08-10-2010, 02:36 AM   #343
wilomn
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Originally Posted by Rich Z View Post
Actually, I don't think he is a nutcase at all......
I find myself in agreement with you both.
 
Old 08-10-2010, 08:01 AM   #344
army_greywolf
I think I'm going to write a book someday and call it the Socialist Cookbook.
 
Old 08-10-2010, 09:47 AM   #345
wstphal
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Originally Posted by wilomn View Post
I find myself in agreement with you both.
I hope he's wrong, but I am very sure he's not a nutcase.
 
Old 08-12-2010, 01:24 PM   #346
Rich Z
Anyone up for a swim in the Gulf?





Another interesting read.....

Quote:
USF says government tried to squelch their oil plume findings

By Craig Pittman, Times Staff Writer
In Print: Tuesday, August 10, 2010


A month after the Deepwater Horizon disaster began, scientists from the University of South Florida made a startling announcement. They had found signs that the oil spewing from the well had formed a 6-mile-wide plume snaking along in the deepest recesses of the gulf.

The reaction that USF announcement received from the Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the federal agencies that sponsored their research:

Shut up.

"I got lambasted by the Coast Guard and NOAA when we said there was undersea oil," USF marine sciences dean William Hogarth said. Some officials even told him to retract USF's public announcement, he said, comparing it to being "beat up" by federal officials.

The USF scientists weren't alone. Vernon Asper, an oceanographer at the University of Southern Mississippi, was part of a similar effort that met with a similar reaction. "We expected that NOAA would be pleased because we found something very, very interesting," Asper said. "NOAA instead responded by trying to discredit us. It was just a shock to us."

NOAA Administrator Jane Lubchenco, in comments she made to reporters in May, expressed strong skepticism about the existence of undersea oil plumes — as did BP's then-CEO, Tony Hayward.

"She basically called us inept idiots," Asper said. "We took that very personally."

Lubchenco confirmed Monday that her agency told USF and other academic institutions involved in the study of undersea plumes that they should hold off talking so openly about it. "What we asked for, was for people to stop speculating before they had a chance to analyze what they were finding," Lubchenco said. "We think that's in everybody's interest. … We just wanted to try to make sure that we knew something before we speculated about it."

"We had solid evidence, rock solid," Asper said. "We weren't speculating." If he had to do it over again, he said, he'd do it all exactly the same way, despite Lubchenco's ire.

Coast Guard officials did not respond to a request for comment on Hogarth's accusation.

The discovery of multiple undersea plumes of oil droplets was eventually verified by one of NOAA's own research vessels. And last month USF scientists announced they at last could match the oil droplets in the undersea plumes to the millions of barrels of oil that gushed from the collapsed well until it was capped July 15.

"What we have learned completely changes the idea of what an oil spill is," USF scientist David Hollander said then. "It has gone from a two-dimensional disaster to a three-dimensional catastrophe."

Now Lubchenco is not only convinced the undersea plumes exist, but she is predicting that some of the spill's most significant impacts will be caused by their effect on juvenile sea creatures such as bluefin tuna. Lubchenco and her staff say they are now working smoothly with USF and other academic institutions in investigating the consequences of the largest marine oil spill in history.

However, Hogarth said, not all is hunky-dory.

USF's first NOAA-sponsored voyage to take samples after Deepwater Horizon, the one that turned up evidence of the undersea plumes, was designed to gather evidence for use in an eventual court case against BP and other oil companies involved in the disaster. At the end of the voyage, USF turned its samples over to NOAA, expecting to get either a shared analysis or the samples themselves back. So far, Hogarth said, they've received neither.

NOAA's top oil spill scientist, Steve Murawski, said Monday that he was "sure we will release the data" at some point. However, he said, because NOAA has collected so many samples over the past three months, when it comes to the samples from USF's trip in May, "I'm not sure where they are."

Lubchenco's agency came under fire last week for a new report that said "the vast majority" of the oil from Deepwater Horizon had been taken care of. Scientists who read the report closely said it actually said half the oil was still unaccounted for.

Lubchenco said anyone who read the report as saying the oil was gone read it wrong.

"Out of sight and diluted does not mean benign," she said.
SOURCE: http://www.tampabay.com/news/environ...ndings/1114225
 

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