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ONE QUESTION THAT BOTHERS ME!!!! Big time!
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 Posted 4:29 PM July 30, 2010 So where are all the "Save the Gulf" concerts? Where are the T.V. |
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Posted 1:18 PM August 7, 2010
I have not been keeping track of this, Have they managed to cap the thing yet?
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Posted 1:54 PM August 7, 2010
They have capped it, but it is too early to fully know just how much damage has transpired, both long and short term. I suspect we will see damage for years from now related to this.
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Posted 2:09 PM August 7, 2010 Chuck Newman said: They have capped it, but it is too early to fully know just how much damage has transpired, both long and short term. I suspect we will see damage for years from now related to this.Oh sure, there are going to be years of ecological repercussions. |
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Posted 2:26 PM August 7, 2010
WOW! Great question Chuck!! I’m going to post a link to this on Facebook!
By the way – anyone notice there doesn't seem to have been much real damage from this? I love the way the Obama administration is taking credit for that. Saying they did so much work that it minimized the damage. YEAH RIGHT! The lesson I take from this is that offshore drilling is safe & A-OK! In fact, it seems the farther offshore you go – and the deeper the water you’re in – the safer it is! Because by the time the little tar balls got to shore they were just that… little tar balls. And apparently tar balls are easy to pick up and don't do a heck of a lot of damage. So I think the big lesson here is – MORE DEEP WATER DRILLING!!! It’s obvious the cataclysmic claims of the Left have NOT come true. |
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Posted 5:10 PM August 7, 2010 Actually, from a business and logic standpoint, wouldn't more SHALLOW water drilling be smarter? This cost BP and stockholders $70B. If it was shallow water this leak lasts 2 hours and makes the end of the local news. I think the one thing this showed is that the technology isn't here for such deep drilling. This shows that environmentalists are short sighted and reactionary, hopefully this situation brings about a sane discussion on enrgy and oil needs. |
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Posted 5:43 PM August 7, 2010
I think the technology is in place that is reasonably safe, but when a company uses less than standard equipment or ignores policies set forth; you know greed, then you get such results. Rich, I suggest you research this, it is common knowledge on what events lead up to this disaster and clearly it was managements decisions to short cut procedures in the name of profits.
Now for the common sense side, I agree with you, why drill where errors are so hard to correct, whether man made or natural; logic would say safer is better.. |
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Posted 6:39 PM August 7, 2010 Chuck Newman said: I think the technology is in place that is reasonably safe, but when a company uses less than standard equipment or ignores policies set forth; you know greed, then you get such results. Rich, I suggest you research this, it is common knowledge on what events lead up to this disaster and clearly it was managements decisions to short cut procedures in the name of profits.Now for the common sense side, I agree with you, why drill where errors are so hard to correct, whether man made or natural; logic would say safer is better..
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Posted 8:41 AM August 8, 2010 There are no concerts, or fund raisers due to the fact that the government has convinced people that BP will be footing the whole bill, and has it under controle. Probably rightly so. They should be responsible. The way Obama went aboout it is disturbing at best, criminal at worst. In the end we don't know what the long term effects will be, but so far all the devestation they predicted seems to have fallen short. I tend to think that whatever oil is left out there will just roll around the bottom until it's just gone. We will have to closely monitor any seafood that comes from the area, and safe production may be affected, but again time will fix that. I doubt it will be long term. They predicted it would take 100 years to recover from the Exon Valdese. It was about 15 years before you could almost see no effects. We have limited understanding of mother earths ability to heal herself. Green advocates think we have the ability to destroy the earth. She won't let us. We would perish first, and in 5000 years she would just keep spinning along. Deep water drilling, shallow water drilling. I'm sure the oil companies would prefer shallow for a multitude of reasons. One being cost. Another being safety. Now if shallow water drilling is safer than deep, how about we develope some land resources too. That's cheaper, easier, and safer yet. An oil rig on land actually has a pretty small footprint when said and done. Maybe dress it up like a pine tree the way they do cell towers. Just saying. |
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Posted 8:54 AM August 8, 2010 Chris Magrum said: 
There are no concerts, or fund raisers due to the fact that the government has convinced people that BP will be footing the whole bill, and has it under controle. Probably rightly so. They should be responsible. The way Obama went aboout it is disturbing at best, criminal at worst. In the end we don't know what the long term effects will be, but so far all the devestation they predicted seems to have fallen short. I tend to think that whatever oil is left out there will just roll around the bottom until it's just gone. We will have to closely monitor any seafood that comes from the area, and safe production may be affected, but again time will fix that. I doubt it will be long term. They predicted it would take 100 years to recover from the Exon Valdese. It was about 15 years before you could almost see no effects. We have limited understanding of mother earths ability to heal herself. Green advocates think we have the ability to destroy the earth. She won't let us. We would perish first, and in 5000 years she would just keep spinning along. Deep water drilling, shallow water drilling. I'm sure the oil companies would prefer shallow for a multitude of reasons. One being cost. Another being safety. Now if shallow water drilling is safer than deep, how about we develope some land resources too. That's cheaper, easier, and safer yet. An oil rig on land actually has a pretty small footprint when said and done. Maybe dress it up like a pine tree the way they do cell towers. Just saying. |
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Posted 10:20 AM August 8, 2010 Chris Magrum said:
There are no concerts, or fund raisers due to the fact that the government has convinced people that BP will be footing the whole bill, and has it under controle. Probably rightly so. They should be responsible. The way Obama went aboout it is disturbing at best, criminal at worst. In the end we don't know what the long term effects will be, but so far all the devestation they predicted seems to have fallen short. I tend to think that whatever oil is left out there will just roll around the bottom until it's just gone. We will have to closely monitor any seafood that comes from the area, and safe production may be affected, but again time will fix that. I doubt it will be long term. They predicted it would take 100 years to recover from the Exon Valdese. It was about 15 years before you could almost see no effects. We have limited understanding of mother earths ability to heal herself. Green advocates think we have the ability to destroy the earth. She won't let us. We would perish first, and in 5000 years she would just keep spinning along. Deep water drilling, shallow water drilling. I'm sure the oil companies would prefer shallow for a multitude of reasons. One being cost. Another being safety. Now if shallow water drilling is safer than deep, how about we develope some land resources too. That's cheaper, easier, and safer yet. An oil rig on land actually has a pretty small footprint when said and done. Maybe dress it up like a pine tree the way they do cell towers. Just saying.
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