Gulf coast oil spill

[piercehawkeye45]

6,000 miles?

[classicman]

pretty much.

I found this a couple weeks ago. Must have forgotten to post it

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[TheMercenary]

It was funny watching the White House spokes person try to defend that very question at a press conference. He had to use some cleaver spinnning trying draw a difference between the President going golfing and the BP man spending time on his boat.

White House deputy press secretary Bill Burton says "I guess [he] took himself [Tony Hayward] at his word and got his life back."

On President Obama golfing: "With all the different issues the President is dealing with, I think that a little time off for himself on Father's Day weekend probably does us all good as American citizens."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...a_golfing.html

[TheMercenary]

Well at least MSNBC is not hiding the fact they are working for the White House in reporting the news the way the White House wants it reported...

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/vid...ng_points.html

[classicman]

All she did, apparently, is make up a list of questions to ask the white house because she believes that Guliani lied to them last week when he was on.
I found it disturbing that she readily admitted to it only after accidentally saying something and then it turned into just a list of questions ... the story kept changing.
I still like that show in the am better than the three boobs on Fox or the meh couple on CNN.

[Shawnee123]

Top Ten Ways Tony Hayward Can Improve His Image
Letterman's Top Ten


10.Catch Osama

9.Contaminate waters around a country like North Korea

8.Reveal secret behind his soft and lustrous curly hair

7.Apologize on The Golf Channel

6.Shoot new BP commercial where he viciously is pecked by angry pelicans

5.Join team Coco

4.Get a job at Poland Spring; accidentally dump a billion gallons of water into the gulf

3.Improve his image, are you kidding? He's doing great!

2.Hang out at BP station, let customers inflate his ass with air hose

1.Dial it back from "arrogant bastard" to "smug pr***"

[Nirvana]

BP seems to have problems all over

BP responsible for gas spill in Constantine
http://www.wndu.com/localnews/headlines/96845664.html

[classicman]

It seems BP recently cleaned up another spill right here in Michiana.

Officials confirmed Monday to NewsCenter 16 that BP is responsible for a gasoline leak of 2,000 barrels in Constantine, Mich.

A leak was discovered over Memorial Day weekend in the area of Quarter Line Road and Miller Road in a pipeline extending from an oil refinery in Whiting, Ind. to the Detroit area. BP says around 89,000 gallons spilled.

Four homes were evacuated for three days until it was determined there was no gasoline in their water.

I wonder how common that type of thing is.

I lol'd that they spelled the name of their state wrong tho or is that a city there?

[xoxoxoBruce]

•The Mississippi River pours as much water into the Gulf of Mexico in 38 seconds as the BP oil leak has done in two months.
•For every gallon of oil that BP's well has gushed into the Gulf of Mexico, there is more than 5 billion gallons of water already in it.
•The amount of oil spilled so far could only fill the cavernous New Orleans Superdome about one-seventh of the way up.
•If you put the oil in gallon milk jugs and lined them up, they would stretch about 10,800 miles. That's a roundtrip from the Gulf to London.
•BP has spent more than $54.8 million lobbying federal officials in Washington since 2000; that's about 44 cents for every gallon of oil it has spilled.
•Take the 125 million gallons of oil spilled in the Gulf and convert it to gasoline, which is what Americans mostly use it for. That produces 58 million gallons of gas - the amount American drivers burn every three hours and 41 minutes.
•If all the oil spilled were divided up and equal amounts given to every American, we would all get about four soda cans full of crude oil that no one really wants.

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[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by xoxoxoBruce

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If oil was the same density as water it probably wouldn't seem like such a big deal. Problem is that it floats to the top and we are basically measuring surface area instead of volume.

When oil is spilled or leaked into in waterways and the ocean, it spreads very quickly with the help of wind and currents. A single gallon of oil can create an oil slick up to a couple of acres in size! The BP oil slick had spread over 580 square miles in just three days.

http://www.greenlivingtips.com/blogs...il-spills.html

[Spexxvet]

U.S. District Judge Martin Feldman, who overturned the Obama administration's temporary ban on deep-water offshore oil drilling, has a lot of his net worth in oil industry holdings. Judge Feldman holds stock in Ocean Energy, Quicksilver Resources (KWK), Prospect Energy, Peabody Energy (BTU), Halliburton (HAL), Pengrowth Energy Trust (PGH), Atlas Energy Resources (ATN) and Parker Drilling (PKD).

Yes, that list did include Halliburton, which was a contractor for the ill-fated Deepwater Horizon project. The data uncovered by the Associated Press, is based on 2008 filings. The news agency also points out that other judges with similar holding have recused themselves from ruling on matters involving the oil and gas industries.


See full article from DailyFinance: http://srph.it/ceK1WL

Bobby Jindal is happy that the moratorium was overturned. I wonder how loudly he'll blame the fed gov if there's another spill.

[Shawnee123]

Originally Posted by Spexxvet

Bobby Jindal is happy that the moratorium was overturned. I wonder how loudly he'll blame the fed gov if there's another spill.

Loudly and with full conviction of finger-pointing and grandstanding, as per usual.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by piercehawkeye45

If oil was the same density as water it probably wouldn't seem like such a big deal. Problem is that it floats to the top and we are basically measuring surface area instead of volume.

Lots of evidence points to the fact that oil disperses much deeper than the surface, and that has been aided by the chemicals they have been spraying on to facilitate that process.

[piercehawkeye45]

Originally Posted by TheMercenary

Lots of evidence points to the fact that oil disperses much deeper than the surface, and that has been aided by the chemicals they have been spraying on to facilitate that process.

I'm not doubting that. I'm sure it affects marine life no matter the depth and I recently read an article about how the oil spill will be harmful to deep sea (no sunlight deep) marine life. My post was just a response to xoxoxoBruce's post, where many of the statistics pointed out the oil to water ratio is actually EXTREMELY small. Most of the oil floats to the surface, our main vantage point, so it seems much worst in that respect. And I'm sure even an extremely small ratio of oil to water is harmful to most marine life.

[Nirvana]

Originally Posted by classicman

I lol'd that they spelled the name of their state wrong tho or is that a city there?

Michiana is a term used to describe the area of Southern Michigan and Northern Indiana