Oil rig an accident?

[cat slave]

Does anyone besides me suspect that the oil rig was not an accident?

It is all too convenient a tool to stir up dirt people and RFKers.

Cap n tax is looming and how convenient for this to happen and in the gulf
too. Plus, the messiah veered from his deep path of anti oil just last week or
so and said he would open up new areas for drilling....now this....uh no, this
was no accident.

How often will we see dead sea turtles with the oil thing implied as the
cause of death which no one knows yet? How many times will we see the
same clip over and over and over? Yet they stopped 9-11 scenes because
they were too disturbing.....! Think about it.

No one could care more about the environment, really care, than I, but
I have more than half a brain and come to the conclusion that there is
more going here than meets the eye. And, I love turtles!!!!! I also want
my truck with gas in it, my electricity, propane for people who use it to
heat with, and all the other vast products that come from oil.

I love animals as much or more than anyone on the face of the earth and
do more for more than any one person should have to do so dont do the
"animal life" thing on me...wont work.

Your thoughts....unless someone already asked this and I missed it.

[KarlMarx]

It was set off by a bunch of right wing crazies who had something against Obamacare....

or wanted to kill gay whales

[Little-Acorn]

It was set off by a bunch of right wing crazies who had something against Obamacare....

or wanted to kill gay whales

You left out bitterly clinging to guns and religion.

Seriously, I've heard no evidence that it was anything other than a natural accident: gas below ground, under high pressure, causing a blowout. A spark ignited it, and away we go.

I guess I'm curious why the platform had no warning equipment that such a thing was coming. No sensors on the wellhead (5,000 feet down at the bottom of the gulf there) wired to warning lights on the platform, and/or big valves that can shut off the flow AT THE PLATFORM before the blowout gets to the surface?

From what I've heard, such blowouts are not unknown, and are one of the major problems that such platforms are designed to deal with. Especially "exploratory" platforms like this one was, where you don't always know what you are about to hit with the drill. So why wasn't this one dealt with?

[KarlMarx]

You left out bitterly clinging to guns and religion.

Seriously, I've heard no evidence that it was anything other than a natural accident: gas below ground, under high pressure, causing a blowout. A spark ignited it, and away we go.

I guess I'm curious why the platform had no warning equipment that such a thing was coming. No sensors on the wellhead (5,000 feet down at the bottom of the gulf there) wired to warning lights on the platform, and/or big valves that can shut off the flow AT THE PLATFORM before the blowout gets to the surface?

From what I've heard, such blowouts are not unknown, and are one of the major problems that such platforms are designed to deal with. Especially "exploratory" platforms like this one was, where you don't always know what you are about to hit with the drill. So why wasn't this one dealt with?

Ask Beloved Leader (as in Kim Il Jong).. or so I've heard... he may be able to answer that question

[PostmodernProphet]

It was set off by a bunch of right wing crazies who had something against Obamacare....

or wanted to kill gay whales

there's no need to kill gay whales, they don't pass on their genes anyway.....

[sybarite]

It was set off by a bunch of right wing crazies who had something against Obamacare....

or wanted to kill gay whales

...and you left out racist!

[Mr. P]

Meanwhile, while everyone is watching the Gulf who's watching Congress? Watch that finance reform bill I hear they've already slipped some stuff in the 1200 pages while nobody was lookin.

[Little-Acorn]

Ask Beloved Leader (as in Kim Il Jong).. or so I've heard... he may be able to answer that question

Got a reference, or any reason to think so?

[HogTrash]

...and you left out racist!

[KarlMarx]

Got a reference, or any reason to think so?

It's just a rumor... but I wouldn't put it past the little !*%&##@!!!!!

[KarlMarx]

...and you left out racist!

I forgot homophobic, too

[krisy]

lol!!!