Skip to comments.
OIL AND GAS SEEPAGE FROM OCEAN FLOOR REDUCED BY OIL PRODUCTION (All Freepers Must Read!!!)
University of California, Santa Barbara ^
| November 18th 1999
| UCSB Study
Posted on 07/19/2008 5:27:13 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Next time you step on a glob of tar on a beach in Santa Barbara County, you can thank the oil companies that it isn't a bigger glob.
(Excerpt) Read more at ia.ucsb.edu ...
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Crime/Corruption; Philosophy; US: California
KEYWORDS: coastalenvironment; congress; corruption; drilling; energy; environment; gas; gasprices; geology; geopolitics; offshoredrilling; oil
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-43 next last
To: mamelukesabre
Thanks to Big Oil, I can no longer find tar to patch my canoe!
To: gorush
22
posted on
07/19/2008 9:03:56 PM PDT
by
Spktyr
(Overwhelmingly superior firepower and the willingness to use it is the only proven peace solution.)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
I didn’t read the article but when I was growing up (before the oil platforms at the Channel Islands, Seal Beach, and the oil island at Long Beach you couldn’t go to any beach in So. California withiutgetting covered with tar.
It used yo be so bad that the beach at Golita was totally unusable and the Spanish used to beach their ships there to tar the bottoms.
Clear into the late 60s there was an oil slick all the way to Mexico from natural seepage of thousands of barrels a day.
The oil wells have relieved the gas pressure so that there is only a small amount being pushedoit now.
23
posted on
07/19/2008 9:17:41 PM PDT
by
dalereed
(both)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Can you believe that the link still actually works?...here's a link a bit more contemporary (June 2008) - saw this guy representing the group SOS (Stop Oil Seeps) on TV last week - a former greenie wienie who still says he's an "environmentalist", but one who wants to stop befouling the beaches in California by drilling the oil out before it has a chance to leak -
The Link ......
To: Intolerant in NJ
bump!!
How do you get Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, and the stupid Austrian to read this?
25
posted on
07/19/2008 9:49:18 PM PDT
by
dalereed
(both)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
26
posted on
07/19/2008 9:53:23 PM PDT
by
Salvation
(†With God all things are possible.†)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing; BOBTHENAILER; Dog Gone
Natural seepage is why you have the La Brea Tar Pits in downtown Las Angeles...oil is lighter than water and sand, after all...so it naturally rises to the surface when it finds a fissure.
Oil drilling/production relieves that natural pressure. It’s an *environmental* case for new oil drilling.
27
posted on
07/19/2008 9:57:20 PM PDT
by
Southack
(Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
To: pointsal
It’s not that. They were *ahead* of everybody in 1999. The problem is that anything that doesn’t fit the liberal media’s agenda doesn’t get reported.
This is an inconvenient truth for the media.
To: Bernard Marx
I’m glad you found it useful. Hopefully others will too.
The information itself is merely common sense/knowledge, but the fact that UCSB did this, and it isn’t oil company funded is what makes it so powerful.
29
posted on
07/20/2008 2:14:53 AM PDT
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(I'm an illegal journalist. Just doing the job that the mainstream liberal media no longer want to do)
To: Intolerant in NJ; Bernard Marx
haha, thats yet another fantastic link. Thanks for sharing.
Oh, and to Bernard..... Read this guy’s link. Apparently Luyendyk still has his job. :-P
30
posted on
07/20/2008 2:18:48 AM PDT
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(I'm an illegal journalist. Just doing the job that the mainstream liberal media no longer want to do)
To: Southack
Yep. Between natural seeps and the fact that offshore oil rigs serve as a dual purpose artificial reef, this is a great argument for us to make.
They’re great for the environment. They can even withstand hurricanes as strong as hurricane katrina.(there were no oil spills when it came through the gulf area)
31
posted on
07/20/2008 2:20:51 AM PDT
by
Halfmanhalfamazing
(I'm an illegal journalist. Just doing the job that the mainstream liberal media no longer want to do)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
But let us not stick inconvenient facts into the Erdgeist religious atmosphere of the MSM.
32
posted on
07/20/2008 4:39:44 AM PDT
by
AmericanVictory
(Should we be more like them, or they like us?)
To: Southack
Oil drilling/production relieves that natural pressure. It’s an *environmental* case for new oil drilling.What a great mental picture......
Oil & Gas Operators at the FOREFRONT of Environmental Relief
33
posted on
07/20/2008 5:48:17 AM PDT
by
BOBTHENAILER
(One by one, in small groups or in whole armies, we don't care how we do it, but we're gonna getcha)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
This has been known for forty years.
34
posted on
07/20/2008 7:58:16 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(G-d gave us Law a fool could follow, but a genius couldn't comprehend)
To: dalereed
How do you get Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, and the stupid Austrian to read this? They'll pay attention when it is profitable for their sponsors for them to do so.
35
posted on
07/20/2008 8:02:16 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(G-d gave us Law a fool could follow, but a genius couldn't comprehend)
To: Halfmanhalfamazing; Intolerant in NJ
Great find, NJ! I'm glad Luyendyk still has his job.
I doubt facts or logic will prevail against the anti-drilling Big Lie being spun here in CA (especially in Santa Barbara County!) But it's nice to have an independent UCSB study to cite to the Green folks locally who refuse to see the elephant in their parlor.
To: Halfmanhalfamazing
Not for nothing but this is a DUH story.
37
posted on
07/20/2008 9:10:39 AM PDT
by
mad_as_he$$
(Constantly choosing the lesser of two evils is still choosing evil.)
To: MEpajamaMONSTER
I remember seeing Newman 20 some years ago on Morton Downey Jr. Show. He was a nut then and he still is! Still can’t prove his miracle engine works!
38
posted on
07/20/2008 2:20:55 PM PDT
by
Bommer
(A Third Party can win when Republicans and Democraps stand for the same thing!)
To: dalereed
How do you get Feinstein, Boxer, Pelosi, and the stupid Austrian to read this?...first you'll hafta teach 'em to read.......
To: Intolerant in NJ
I sure on some level they all know.
Not just the ocean, we'd have tar and oil seeping up all over had we not "relieved the pressure" generally all over the past century or so.
They hide behind the premise of the line in the WHO song We won't get Fooled Again
"The Hypnotized never lie",/i>
40
posted on
07/21/2008 10:09:02 AM PDT
by
norraad
("What light!">Blues Brothers)
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-20, 21-40, 41-43 next last
Disclaimer:
Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual
posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its
management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the
exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson
