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Kathianne
09-02-2010, 10:55 AM
http://www.wdsu.com/r/24854300/detail.html

Now Obama will really shut down the Gulf.

BoogyMan
09-02-2010, 12:12 PM
No problems for YEARS and now we have two in the same year. Your comment below is pivotal, as I believe that is exactly why we are seeing such events take place.


http://www.wdsu.com/r/24854300/detail.html

Now Obama will really shut down the Gulf.

Alias.258
09-02-2010, 02:40 PM
This is an Article i just found on Reuters. I like it a little better but that's probably because I'm partial to Reuters as it is one of my primary news sources.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6813VY20100902

Little-Acorn
09-02-2010, 03:14 PM
Some of our loonier leftists believe the U.S. Government was responsible for two* skyscrapers collapsing in sequence on Sept. 11, 2001.

Maybe we should ask them who was "really responsible" for two gulf oil platforms exploding in sequence this summer....??

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* Or three, depending on which loony leftist you ask

Alias.258
09-02-2010, 03:32 PM
I don't know why i couldn't find the AP report until after i posted the Reuters article, but i found it when i wasn't even looking for it in the one place i didn't look. Anyways here is the one written by the AP.

http://www.military.com/news/article/oil-sheen-spotted-after-gulf-rig-explosion.html

pete311
09-02-2010, 03:43 PM
No problems for YEARS and now we have two in the same year. Your comment below is pivotal, as I believe that is exactly why we are seeing such events take place.

grow up

Insein
09-02-2010, 05:03 PM
This is an Article i just found on Reuters. I like it a little better but that's probably because I'm partial to Reuters as it is one of my primary news sources.

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6813VY20100902

Not an official timeline by any means but this is all I found on past Oil Rig Explosions.

http://www.google.com/search?q=history+of+oil+rig+explosions&hl=en&prmd=n&tbs=tl:1&tbo=u&ei=-waATJHaAsP58Abr9KzeAQ&sa=X&oi=timeline_result&ct=title&resnum=12&ved=0CEMQ5wIwCw

Here's some actual data on all the major rig incidents in the Gulf in the last decade.

http://home.versatel.nl/the_sims/rig/losses.htm


Glomar Baltic I 5/9/2001 GOM - JU Blowout -
Marine IV 7/13/2001 GOM - JU Blowout -
Ocean King 8/9/2002 Grand Isle 93, GOM - JU Blowout Fire
Nabors Dolphin 105 10/2/2002 GOM - JU Sinking Lili - collapse and capsize
Rowan Houston 10/2/2002 GOM 0 JU Sinking Lili - Collapse and capsize
Parker 14-J 9/11/2003 GOM 0 JU Collapse Jacking mechanism failure
Ensco 64 9/15/2004 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Major damage
Medusa Spar 9/15/2004 GOM - P Hurricane Damaged
Thunderhorse 7/10/2005 GOM 0 SS Hurricane List after Dennis.
PSS Chemul 8/29/2005 GOM 0 SS Hurricane Major damage
Shell Mars 8/29/2005 GOM 0 P Hurricane Major damage
Hercules 25 8/29/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Katrina - derrick fell on rig
Ocean Warwick 8/31/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Major damage
Rowan New Orleans 8/31/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Katrina - Capsized, sank
Noble Max Smith 9/9/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Major damage in Rita
Chevron Typhoon 9/27/2005 GOM 0 P Hurricane Major damage
Rowan Odessa 9/28/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Rita - missing, sunk?
Rowan Fort Worth 9/28/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Rita - Beached, written off
Rowan Halifax 9/28/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Rita - Beached, written off
Rowan Louisiana 9/28/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Rita - Beached, severe damage
Adriatic VII 9/28/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Major damage
High Island III 9/28/2005 GOM 0 JU Hurricane Major damage

Its hard to decipher on here but only 6 incidents occured from 2001-2005 that didn't involve a hurricane.

Something definitely seems a miss to have 2 high profile explosions in less than 6 months.

Gaffer
09-02-2010, 05:18 PM
Why isn't the conspiracy band wagon forming here? Sertes, -cp, where are you? It's just the sort of thing that begs for engineers and architects along with a couple of thousand other degrees and specialties to get in there and speculate. Where was Chaney during all of this? :thumb:

Alias.258
09-02-2010, 06:59 PM
Interesting information Insein...Why was i quoted?

Anyways I'm not qualified enough to say anythings "a miss". I need more detailed and broken down information about how exactly each indecent occurred before i can even think about speculating that. I don't like not being able to back up my opinion and at this point i don't have the information to back up, or even have one.

Insein
09-02-2010, 10:41 PM
Interesting information Insein...Why was i quoted?

Anyways I'm not qualified enough to say anythings "a miss". I need more detailed and broken down information about how exactly each indecent occurred before i can even think about speculating that. I don't like not being able to back up my opinion and at this point i don't have the information to back up, or even have one.

Its all circumstancial but unlike the "Inside Job" nuts that were convinced Bush knocked down the towers, this actually has a motive. To prove that Bush wanted to kill Americans to start a war for money is a flimsy premise to base any opinion on. You would have to assume that Bush is an evil sociopath the likes of which the world had never nor will ever see (I guess most leftwing nuts believed that).

To have oil rigs blow up right as new legislation for a system of new taxes on industry to "Protect the environment" is very conceivable. Low casualties, hard to prove its intentional cause there are no witnesses and the media will eat up the anti-oil angle like a fat kid at an all you can eat buffet. For this motive, Obama would not have to be a sociopath. He'd just have to have an enormous Ego combined with a a monstrous sense of superiority. He truly feels he is doing the right thing to save the planet and feels that the only way to do it is for the government to tax industry to death. Thus an unpopular legislation is now quasi-popular. Blow up one more oil rig and support starts to sway for it.

Its 100% speculation. I have no proof whatsoever but it fits way too convienantly to not see the correlation.