Posted on 05/01/2010 10:33:38 PM PDT by granite
Barack Obama flies in to meet BP chief over Deepwater Horizon oil spill
I'd love to be a fly on the wall...
If it was a deliberate attack on America, it was compliments of the White House. “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” If no crisis exists, create one.
Wow. I did not know SWAT teams had been sent to other rigs.
I suspect foul play. The silence from the media and our govt on the cause of the explosion is DEAFENING!
As I stated yesterday on another thread, it is NO SECRET that the FBI released a report years ago that Al Quaeda was targeting oil refineries, platforms, wells, etc. in the U.S. and Canada!
Well, let’s see....
Environmentalists have been violent before in opposing man’s encroachments on “Mother Earth” whom they worship as a goddess.
Obama, the most leftist U.S. President in history, opens up areas to offshore drilling.
Major accident takes place that radically alters public policy.
SWAT teams are sent to rigs in the Gulf.
???
Adds up to something smellier than gas.
If this was indeed a terrorist attack, be it domestic “earth first” fruitcakes or foreign radicals, it reinforces the vulnerability of nuclear power plants and hampers future consideration for hydrogen services. Sabotage is an old tool in these zealot’s war chests...
I fail to see how any SWAT Team of any flavor could protect anything from a NK Heavy torpedo...
I might ad here that the person legally in charge of managing and cleaning up the spill is his highness himself: Oil Spill Protection Act 1990 makes Hussein head of the management.
I think Obama did it as a distraction to his marxist muslim agenda
That’s what I was thinking-first coal and now oil.
How “unprecedented”.
I wonder what’s next?
Gina, you are a “crazy conspiracy theorist.”
From that link:
...”marking 2010’s celebration of Earth Day with one of the largest environmental catastrophes our World has ever seen.”
For the life of me, I can’t figure out why Environmentalists would be keen on causing an environmental catastrophe.
BP was also the operator of the 2005 Texas City refinery explosion and fire that killed 15. They were responsible for the 2006 oil pipeline spill in Alaska in 2006. The common feature in these three disasters is BP. And BP is a company where safety takes a second place to maximizing revenue.
Thanks for posting that link.
I saw this in the comment section over at ragingdebate.com.
I sure hope this guy is wrong.
I’d much prefer the terrorist scenario myself....
“Dropping back in briefly to update this thread with some Uber-Doom analysis from the pages of The Oil Drum:
A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch this one
evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and he shares this
long (but worthy explanation why:
“Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning,
and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing
the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.
First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day
spilling into the ocean. Now they’re saying 200,000 gallons a day. That’s over a
million gallons of crude oil a week!
I’m engineer with 25 years of experience. I’ve worked on some big projects
with big machines. Maybe that’s why this mess is so clear to me.
First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out
where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the
crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do.
Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all
of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the
rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure
behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science
to contain it.
When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some
5,000 feet under the ocean.
Now they’ve got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked
oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into
the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!
First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try
to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil
rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years
and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the
muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.
The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear
bomb. I’m not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might
seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.
If we can’t cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the
world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean
water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?
We’re so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their
criminal agendas that we aren’t recognizing that we’re staring straight into
possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if
that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet.
Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.
Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen
level in the atmosphere for human life.
We’re humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be
sure of that.” “
This guy is a noob. The rig isn’t sitting on top of the wellhead.
oh good. Thank you!
I was hoping a FReeper would shoot that one down quickly!
You are assuming they are honest.
Here’s a picture of the situation. As you can see, the rig isn’t anywhere close to the well head. If it was on top, they wouldn’t even be able to attempt to activate the blowout valve, which I’ve seen photos of them attempting to do. It’s serious, but it’s not armageddon.
http://media.nola.com/2010_gulf_oil_spill/photo/beneaththeoilslickjpg-26ae69ad5b2d305c_large.jpg
You & I both know that one spark with a 10,000 to 40,000 psi event, sets off the explosion, which would then totally blow out the well.
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