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Old 04-30-2010, 08:50 PM
 
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I'm not trying to minimize the problem, I hope most of the oil is contained just like everyone else. I do get a little irritated when people try to use this accident as an excuse to go off on a political rant.
It's not political, it simply comes down to morals and whether you know right from wrong.
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Old 05-01-2010, 05:09 AM
 
Location: Lincoln County Road or Armageddon
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I'm not trying to minimize the problem, I hope most of the oil is contained just like everyone else. I do get a little irritated when people try to use this accident as an excuse to go off on a political rant.
Here we go-voicing concern about Big Oil's ability to safely drill for oil is now a "political rant".
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Old 05-01-2010, 11:22 AM
 
Location: Floribama
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It's not political, it simply comes down to morals and whether you know right from wrong.
Yeah okay we'll just shut off the flow and let people freeze to death this winter. Natural gas also requires drilling so we'll shut that off too, no more manufacturing, no more hot water or cooking for millions, no more city buses.

You're right, we need to do the right thing here.
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Old 05-01-2010, 12:15 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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A professor from UF stated yesterday that he believes the Gulf stream is going to catch the spill and bring it through the Florida Straits, and then whip it up the east coast of Florida......Good God.......can you imagine what that would do to our already non-existent economy????
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Old 05-01-2010, 12:27 PM
 
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A professor from UF stated yesterday that he believes the Gulf stream is going to catch the spill and bring it through the Florida Straits, and then whip it up the east coast of Florida......Good God.......can you imagine what that would do to our already non-existent economy????
If they let that happen then they are obviously idiots, because that would devasted the United States in its totally to extremes. I think they are smarter than that.
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Old 05-01-2010, 12:33 PM
 
Location: Silver Springs, FL
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If they let that happen then they are obviously idiots, because that would devasted the United States in its totally to extremes. I think they are smarter than that.
Dunno about that.....
They didnt even get the estimated spillage correct. The news said today the spill is the size of Puerto Rico......I wouldnt trust what any of those BP SOB's say.
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Old 05-01-2010, 02:22 PM
 
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Dunno about that.....
They didnt even get the estimated spillage correct. The news said today the spill is the size of Puerto Rico......I wouldnt trust what any of those BP SOB's say.

VENICE, La. – The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago.
The newly named federal point man for the oil spill said it was impossible to pinpoint how much oil is leaking from a ruptured underwater well. Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, head of the U.S. Coast Guard, told a conference call Saturday that "any exact estimation of what's flowing out of those pipes down there is impossible" because the site is about a mile underwater.


Expert: Surface area of gulf oil spill has tripled - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill - broken link)
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Old 05-01-2010, 03:12 PM
 
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VENICE, La. – The surface area of a catastrophic Gulf of Mexico oil spill quickly tripled in size amid growing fears among experts that the slick could become vastly more devastating than it seemed just two days ago.
The newly named federal point man for the oil spill said it was impossible to pinpoint how much oil is leaking from a ruptured underwater well. Commandant Adm. Thad Allen, head of the U.S. Coast Guard, told a conference call Saturday that "any exact estimation of what's flowing out of those pipes down there is impossible" because the site is about a mile underwater.


Expert: Surface area of gulf oil spill has tripled - Yahoo! News (http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill - broken link)
Dear god. The news just continues to get monumentally worse. I read in one article to picture a volcano a mile underground. The pressure being generated is that strong.

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