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Mile-Long Tube Sucking Oil Away From Gulf

May 17, 2010 11 Comments ›› Pat Dollard

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…and are the mad-scream media going wall-to-wall with coverage of this bit of success like they did about the original disaster?

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Citizen K

Like dumb sheep to the slaughter, so many “conservative” websites keep hollering for Zero to do something rather than let private companies (there are approximately 100 emergency spill contractors on the job with thousands of employees) do their job.

99.9% of ALL Americans know nothing about this entire business sector, like how they are the ones called upon to handle spills throughout the world. Most people think that production platforms (like the over 4,000 in the Gulf of Mexico) are oil rigs.

Dumb fucks.

The USCG, and the entire Federal Government does NOT have any resources or manpower to handle oil spills. It does not exist. Now is not the time to start.

rightangle

CK, that might be their sarcasm. If the spill happened when Bush was president, you can bet that the left would be calling for him to do something- like they did playing Katrina.
Citizen K

I have nothing at all against doing everything possible to make the entire Demoncrap Party long gone in my rearview mirror. It is just that I like facts, rather than fantasy, to do it.

Here is what some numb nuts might be playing into, in the way of a trap, INCREASED GOVERNMENT REGULATION, and a NEW government owned and run oil spill response contractor.

Our private companies (around 100) who handle spill response WORLDWIDE are on the job and have been for weeks now. I KNOW THIS FOR A FACT, I USED TO WORK FOR THE COMPANY THAT HANDLED (BY ITSELF) ONE OF THE LARGEST OIL SPILLS EVER. This was in the Andes Mountains in the late 1990′s.
Citizen K

Sorry I really did mistype, that is around 100 or so contractors who are working ON this spill. I did not mean that there were only 100 nationwide.

Actually, along the Gulf Coast, where the real pros at spill response are, most of the owners & management of these companies cut their teeth in the oilfield before getting into spill response.
rightangle

CK, you’ve been putting out very informative comments throughout this crisis. No right minded conservative wants to increase the size of gov’t. I know dems would want to use this as an excuse to push there political agenda- shut down drilling, tax oil more, invest more in ‘green’ blah blah…

I hope having a spill response bureaucracy isn’t that high on their list.

Best advice is to call these “conservative’s” bluff and call for gov’t involvement. I bet they’d be like Charlie Rangel voting against his own draft revival bill back in 2004- I think his intent was to make the Iraq War more unpopular.

Citizen K

Oh, there are less than 30 “oil rigs” working in the Gulf of Mexico.
John

regulation does not equal big government…

Study the history of business and corporations in the United States, the first 130 years are alot different than the last 100…Throw in the cartel of bankers who own and run the Federal Reserve,

the sheep dont even know they are slaves… Shiny plastic cars and the blue glow of the boob toob keeps them drooling on themselves after wasting their life working for crumbs…
Citizen K

Actually, this spill teaches one thing.

The Left, who all hate big business, want to take away the liability cap of $75 million that allows the plethora of independent oil & gas producers from capitulating to the big boys with the much deeper pockets and lower returns on investment (something like 2 to 4%). Dumbfucks that they are.

Luckily this spill is where the largest concentration of companies, assets and knowhow are located in the country if not the world.

As for the nuking idea that is about as dumb as tits on a boar hog. This would only serve to totally fracture the formation and remove all control with the likely possibility of 100 million barrels or 4.2 BILLION gallons of crude oil reaching the surface. Operation “Gasbuggy” proves that from the 1960′s.

For those who are ignorant of what regulations do in the U.S. and no where else on this planet is that they make ambulance chaser attorneys rich and make a lot of money for the DNC coffers.

Our regs are at best fine and in reality horrible and cumbersome.

I’ve seen the dumbest most ignorant comments from the left regarding this spill and almost as bad from the right. I like facts and not “Prison Planet” to form good opinions.
Citizen K

Oh and about Enron, that was Al Gore’s largest cheerleader. They stood to make gazillions in carbon credit trading and spent a heck of a lot of cabbage betting on this in lobbying efforts worldwide.

GE ended up with their wind energy business in the bankruptcy for pennies on the dollar.

Enron was the George Soros of the Glowarmers. It was not Bush.
mertin

“Taxpayers bailed it out.”

So are US taxpayers going to bail out BP? Pay for the clean-up? Compensate fishermen and hotels and airlines?

Or is the US going to fine and regulate: demand minimum safety standards and compensation for damage & costs?

GW Bush chose to give 700 billion in welfare payments to some of the richest businesses on earth… no questions asked. Phil Gramm (Rep. Texas) pushed for deregulation Enron asked for… his wife left the SEC to work for Enron… Enron got what it wanted… Enron went bust… didn’t self-heal… didn’t self-regulate… went bust.

There are a lot of republicans in the US who haven’t a clue what capitalism is… they think its a free-for-all in which money buys influence and access to land and capital. A sort of a wild west… only they fantasise that this wild west isn’t violently corrupt.

You wanna see that sort of economy? Go to Russia… or Brazil.
NY homicides per 100,000: 6.3
Typical figure in Brazil: 100 (and they don’t count bodies in the favelas)