Offshore Oil Drilling and the Oil Rig Disaster in the Gulf

[kellypope]

As far as the Atlantic/Neptune Beach area goes, there was no oil.

[fsujax]

The TS is NOT heading towards the oilspill! It is moving over Central America into the Bay of Campeche  and hopefully into Mexcio. I can not believe how this is being hyped. The five day forecast from the National Hurricane Center.

http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/refresh/graphics_at1+shtml/150313.shtml?5-daynl?large#contents

[Bostech]

Maybe it can meet oil spill half way.

[Timkin]

Thank god for small miracles.. If tarballs are expected to be seen on the coastline in Jacksonville, appears they really do not need any further assistance from a storm.. That said, Now BP can bail on the issue , citing the storm and the situation will just get worse.   


Just F&*$#*ng  great! 

[Lunican]

http://embed.crooksandliars.com/v/MTczNTctMzgwNTI?color=173466

[Timkin]

Nice. B P  sucks!

[Bostech]

So Americans finally got exhausted from oil spill and now none is talking about it at all.
BP and government won.

[finehoe]

Industry vs BP Standards:  http://www.saveusenergyjobs.com/resources/infographic/

[civil42806]

Your federal government in action!

http://article.nationalreview.com/437803/gulf-state-officials-should-defy-obstructionist-feds/deroy-murdock


Yes I know its an opinion magazine, but some of the boneheaded Beaureaucratic responses boggle the mind.

[Timkin]

So Americans finally got exhausted from oil spill and now none is talking about it at all.
BP and government won.

Not exactly... We can continue to fume about it until we are blue in the face..which we may be when we all become poisoned from bad air and tainted food and water supplies.

[Bostech]

If spill happened of coast of Greece,how do you think Greeks would react?

[Timkin]

Not sure... But I doubt they would be any happier about the situation than we are.  I would love to know where things stand in the Gulf now.. but my guess is , the well is still spewing tons of oil out.

[BridgeTroll]

Thr good news is... We can now shut down drilling in the Gulf...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/07/09/obama-to-open-up-18-milli_n_641559.html

July 10, 2010   

Obama To Open Up 1.8 Million Alaskan Acres To Oil Drilling


ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- The Interior Department is offering oil and gas leases on 1.8 million acres of Alaska's National Petroleum Reserve while promising to protect critical migratory bird and caribou habitat.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar says the Bureau of Land Management will offer 190 tracts with bids to be opened Aug. 11 in Anchorage. The sale is one of dozens, mostly in Western states, that Salazar announced in November.

The petroleum reserve covers 23 million acres on Alaska's North Slope. That's an area slightly smaller than the state of Indiana.

The BLM withdrew for consideration lands in a buffer zone around Teshekpuk (TESH'-eh-puk) Lake because of its importance to migratory birds.

Eric Myers of Audubon Alaska says the agency took a reasonable approach with its measures to protect birds and calving caribou.

[urbanlibertarian]

And of course there are no liability limits on these leases, right?  The feds learned their lesson, right?

[Timkin]

Right.  I have a slightly used bridge you can buy too... I dont own it, but you still can buy it