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Nobody likes what has happened in the gulf. Contrary to liberal thinking even republicans don't like smelly oil polluted beaches.
But this constant media hype from Fox to MSNBC to CNN just goes to prove in the news business if it bleeds it leads.
Spilling a gallon is bad but how bad is this spill, really?
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Experts said satellite data indicated the oil was gushing from BP’s sunken Deepwater Horizon rig at 25,000 barrels a day. Previous estimates had put the leak at 5,000 barrels a day.
Of course it's bad. Anytime an accident threatens to put thousands of people out of work, destroy the eco-system of area and destroy their economy it deserves the "media hype" it's getting.
The scrutiny on cementing will focus attention on Halliburton Co., the oilfield-services firm that was handling the cementing process on the rig, which burned and sank last week…
Halliburton also was the cementer on a well that suffered a big blowout last August in the Timor Sea, off Australia. The rig there caught fire and a well leaked tens of thousands of barrels of oil over 10 weeks before it was shut down. The investigation is continuing…
Federal officials declined to comment on their investigation, and Halliburton didn’t respond to questions from The Wall Street Journal.
Of course it's bad. Anytime an accident threatens to put thousands of people out of work, destroy the eco-system of area and destroy their economy it deserves the "media hype" it's getting.
I didn't say it wasn't bad but it needs to be put in perspective.
Putting the worst face on we could say this well could leak for thousands of years but it won't.
BP announced today that a containment dome should be in place in 6 to 8 days capping the spill.
The oil spill is gushing out up to 25,000 barrels per day. It has the potential to do that for months, not at one time, not one week, but months.
In all aspects, it'll be the worst oil spill in American history.
Potential ? Iran has the potential to start a nuclear war! But never mind that lets act like it is the worst oil spill in American history.one can only hope right?
Potential ? Iran has the potential to start a nuclear war! But never mind that lets act like it is the worst oil spill in American history.one can only hope right?
Oh God, I hope they stop it tomorrow. The odds I'm hearing of the "caps" working, are around 50/50 at this point. Not great odds, but its better than trying nothing.
This is our last best hope to keep it from going on for months.
As I said before, its been pumping out 25,000 barrels a day, for going on 10 days now. Thats 250,000 barrels so far.
Iran is out of my hands, not my country. Any country that uses a nuclear weapon, or gives it to someone to use, is dead.
Spilling a gallon is bad but how bad is this spill, really?
From an environmental point of view, it is a whole different story.
The Pemex spill landed largely on beaches, not wetlands. It isn't necessarily which spill is the largest, as opposed to what area a spill affects.
The questions that haunt this region are how much more can the wetlands take and does their degradation spell doom for an increasingly defenseless southern Louisiana?
I didn't say it wasn't bad but it needs to be put in perspective.
So downplaying it is a better perspective?
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