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White House Declares Halt on New Offshore Drilling
Aol News ^ | 30/4/10 | Doug Simpson, Lauren Frayer

Posted on 04/30/2010 7:15:58 AM PDT by Eleutheria5

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To: cardinal4

Why is no one mentioning the possibility of a terrorist hiring out to the oil company and then bombing the rig & well?


181 posted on 04/30/2010 1:16:37 PM PDT by midwyf (Wyoming Native. Environmentalism is a religion too.)
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To: 21twelve

I forgot to include, some of the leaking is from the remaining riser pipe. There are pictures of it.


182 posted on 04/30/2010 1:27:47 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Jerry Attrick
Isn’t it ironic that this disaster and the coal mine disasters happened at the same time.

Many companies in the energy business has cut way back on personnel since the O clown was elected. We're down to the bare bones in operating a chemical plant at my location. Where there were 3 people working, now it's 1.
A huge significant safety issue if working by yourself with chemicals.

The companies knew that O dumbo was ready to destroy the domestic energy sector. He has always been against coal and oil. He wants windmills and solar panels.

All these recent accidents are Obama's fault.

183 posted on 04/30/2010 2:20:56 PM PDT by chemicalman (Smackdown! Coming soon to an election near you.)
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To: chemicalman

nobama is a freak. nobama...please resign tonight. I know I have asked this before...but please resign tonight. You are an EPIC Fail and a poor excuse for life.


184 posted on 04/30/2010 4:00:14 PM PDT by hal ogen ($10 (I think) ajmo0unts through the internet from all over the world.)
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To: Eleutheria5

Well isn’t that the whole idea? Radical environmentalists were angry at Obama for saying he’d allow drilling offshore, and voila... an oil well with all sorts of failsafes on it poof, goes boom.

I’d say it’s the kill the whalers crowd that blew up this well.


185 posted on 04/30/2010 4:06:51 PM PDT by CowHampshire (NH, Tea Party, Banking Elite, Obama, Cloward-Piven, Totalitarianism, Fascism, Taxation)
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To: rock_lobsta

can we start the drumbeat NOW????

“WHY ISN’T THE PRESIDENT DOING SOMETHING???
HE WAITED TOO LONG TO BRING IN THE NAVY AND COAST GUARD!!
HE DOESN’T CARE ABOUT NEW oRLEANS OR THE ENVIRONMENT! HE HATES SOUTHERNERS!

HE DID THIS ON PURPOSE TO SABOTAGE DRILLING! WHY ISN’T THE FED GOVT HELPING INSTEAD OF BLAMING BP!!”

(If the drumbeat was good enough for Bush..its sure good enough for Obama! )
Seriously, why would he WAIT to send in Fed resources!


186 posted on 04/30/2010 4:09:18 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Ok, joke's over....Bring back Bush !)
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To: CowHampshire

SABOTAGE


187 posted on 04/30/2010 4:13:56 PM PDT by this is my country
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Also leaks like a “sieve” into the bay near Santa Barbara California. I think this oil spill hype is not the crisis the politicians and environs would have us believe. Just another way to control the energy sector and the people.

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923013,00.html


188 posted on 04/30/2010 4:22:28 PM PDT by rlferny
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To: WOBBLY BOB

Doesn’t seem like 1,000 gallons a day is that large of a spill when the ocean floors seeps 50 BBl. a day according to story below!!!

“If your dog got loose and went down to the beach, it would take you an hour to clean his feet.” Still worse, the putrid smell of hydrogen sulfide often hangs over the area like vapor from a truckload of rotten eggs. The culprit is not a leaking oil well, but nature. The ocean floor is spilling large quantities of oil and natural gas through fissures that geoloists call seeps. Says Petroleum Geologist Robert Gaal of the California State lands commission: “There are thousands of them down there. It’s like a sieve.”

Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,923013,00.html#ixzz0md5KF7GU


189 posted on 04/30/2010 4:34:24 PM PDT by rlferny
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To: al baby
No big surprise here. Rahm you magnificent bastard you. who knew he was an expert at UDT

AT THE ABSOLUTELY PERFECT TIME OF THE YEAR...Al Baby..I spent 25 years in the oil fields of the Gulf of Mexico...March, April, and the first couple of weeks in May are the worst times of the year out there...winds CONSTANTLY out of the SE, S, and SW...MAXIMUM CASUALTY....YOU DAMN RIGHT.....

190 posted on 04/30/2010 4:51:51 PM PDT by OBXWanderer
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To: Oldexpat; All

That is what I’m hearing.. BP screwed the pooch..


191 posted on 04/30/2010 5:31:31 PM PDT by KevinDavis (Jesus Saves... Allah Kills...)
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To: thackney

Thanks AGAIN for the info. I had heard concerns of the wreckage of the platform sitting on the well head and hampering access for capping, etc. That does not seem to be the case though?


192 posted on 04/30/2010 5:35:59 PM PDT by 21twelve ( UNINTENDED CONSEQUENCES MY ARSE: "..now begin the work of remaking America."-Obama, 1/20/09)
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To: houeto
Totally agree with this.....

Thanks for the post...

193 posted on 04/30/2010 5:36:57 PM PDT by Osage Orange (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: surfer
Amazing how all these things are happening just as Obama is pushing his agenda...

Coal mine...chek

State of the Art Drilling Rig...chek

Nuke plant...pending

194 posted on 04/30/2010 6:06:33 PM PDT by OBXWanderer
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To: 21twelve

No, the rig came down away from it.

See this drawing of the locations.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2504050/posts?page=29

Also I have watched video of the submersible ROVs trying to operate the BOP on the wellhead. It did not take an impact.


195 posted on 04/30/2010 6:10:05 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Eleutheria5

Somebody help me out with something that has been puzzling me. If oil drilling is increased and refining capablities are not increased, since refineries are running at full capcity already, how will this increase the end product?


196 posted on 04/30/2010 6:11:41 PM PDT by reaganator
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To: Genoa

Oil is a commodity. The price of a commodity is set by market forces.


197 posted on 04/30/2010 6:16:49 PM PDT by reaganator
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To: reaganator

Our refining capacity is about triple our domestic production. So every increased barrel brought up in the US is a barrel that doesn’t need imported.


198 posted on 04/30/2010 6:27:57 PM PDT by thackney (life is fragile, handle with prayer)
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To: Recovering Ex-hippie

“Seriously, why would he WAIT to send in Fed resources!”

He sees some gain in waiting, some gain in making the crisis worse. Probably to justify some draconian action.


199 posted on 04/30/2010 7:12:54 PM PDT by DBrow
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To: mojitojoe

“Squatting” is just the way to put it.

Thanks.


200 posted on 04/30/2010 7:13:10 PM PDT by tsomer
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