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Let's have Rush sit down and snort and slop his way through a tureen of terrapin soup made from all those dead sea turtles now washing up on the beaches of the gulf coast. Then we can tell him that puking his guts out is "natural" and "will take care of itself."
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Great, Now the gulf coast is paying the price of 6 Years of doing nothing. Drill, baby, drill? I don;t think so. Ask the commercial fishing industry as well as the tourism industry if in hindsight this was a good idea.
Federal regulators learned in a 2004 study that a vital piece of oil-drilling safety equipment may not function in deep-water seas but did nothing to bolster industry requirements.
The equipment, called shear rams, is supposed to seal off out-of-control oil and gas wells by pinching the pipe closed and cutting it.
As oil companies drilled wells in deeper water, the shear rams had to become stronger and manufacturers responded. But the federally commissioned study questioned whether enough was known about the force required to shear off a pipe at these depths to set proper standards.
It is strange that these "safety" devices were likely to fail, has been known since 2004, and the standards not updated.
Goldman Sachs did it, to cause an oil panic and run-up in crude prices. As they say in Spanish: Via Con D'Oro! (go with the money!).
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Obama did it to turn people against oil and force us to enter the brave new world of down graded expectations and electric cars (for which the technology doesn't yet exist).
Ive never heard even a rumor that haiburton has ever given less than 100% in doing a good job or been paid more than they could account for. Never ! lol
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Cheney/Haliburton Sabotage Oil Rig To Embarrass Obama.
