Posted on 06/22/2008 8:47:45 AM PDT by Uncle Ralph
Oil “spills” come from from oil tankers used to import oil to our shores from far away oil producing nations... Not from drilling rigs!
Take a look at the Texas, Louisiana, and Mississippi coasts... The beaches are as pristine as Florida beaches, and you can see the drilling platforms on the horizon...
Unnecessary fabrication.
Katrina Oil Spills May Be Among Worst on Record
The oil pollution in the wake of Hurricane Katrina could be among the worst recorded in North America, officials trying to coordinate the clean-up say. The US coastguard, which is responsible for the marine environment, said yesterday more than 6.5 million gallons of crude oil had been spilt in at least seven major incidents. The previous worst spill in US waters was the 11m gallons in Alaskan waters from the Exxon Valdez in 1989.
“This is a major event,” said Lieutenant Colonel Glynn Smith of the coastguard in New Orleans. “Things are going well, but three-quarters of the oil from the spills has not yet been recovered.”
The figure does not include petrol and oil spilt from up to 250,000 cars which have been submerged, or that spilt from hundreds of petrol stations. The coastguard says it has received almost 400 reports of spills, the vast majority of which have not been assessed.
A CG CPO told me that it is lilely over 10 million gallons spilled.
I have...and they are not even close...Fl. East Coast Beachs, Maybe.
It’s disrespectful to call him names and I’m sure you don’t want to do that.
He’s kept our asses safe for 7 years.
He’s liberated 50 million people.
He’s killed lotsa bad guys.
We’ve had the biggest economic expansion in our nation’s history.
We’ve had a virtual full employment of the populace...carrying over 25 million illegal immigrants in the process.
Gimme a break.
I’d follow George W. Bush on the battlefield.
Tell me who you like instead?
Executive order to open drilling now.
Whereas the authors of this piece think the U.S. Coast Guard has lieutenant colonels, and that "Coast Guard" is spelled "coastguard", why should I have any confidence in the veracity of any part of the article offered in rebuttal?
I wasn’t addressing the color of the sand... just pointing out that the beaches aren’t polluted by oil spills in spite of the drilling platforms only a few miles out...
Uhmmm.... a Conservative? Seriously, I have tremendous respect for the man. I am disappointed that he rolls over on just about every entitlement spending bill put before him. He didn't find his veto pen until about a year ago.
He should have been smacking Pelosi, Kennedy, Kerry, Murtha, Feinstein, Boxer, and the rest.
His communication skills are horrible.
124 spills were reported with a total volume of roughly 17,700 barrels of total petroleum products, of which about 13,200 barrels were crude oil and condensate from platforms, rigs and pipelines, and 4,500 barrels were refined products from platforms and rigs. Pipelines were accountable for 72 spills totaling about 7,300 barrels of crude oil and condensate spilled into the [Gulf of Mexico]. Response and recovery efforts kept the impacts to a minimum with no onshore impacts from these spill events.
Most of the rest came from refineries onshore..
One point to consider...although all the rigs shut down pumping in advance of the storm, they did not purge the oil from the lines on the sea-floor. Remember the reports of floating rigs in the Gulf them having come unmoored? Think about it.
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