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Gulf Oil Leak - leeman - 05-28-2010
U know, a texas person just made a car that runs on water..............................
Water from the mexican gulf.....
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:Umm no?I'm sure the rest of your post was accurate though.
Well, what i mean is that they haven't got it plugged and do you know how long it takes all that oil to surface from a mile deep? I mean oil floats, but barely and it takes it a long time to surface from that deep. They say there are huge oil pockets still deep under the surface that have yet to make their way to the top. I was just pointing out that even when they stop it, it is still going to get bigger.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
leeman Wrote:U know, a texas person just made a car that runs on water..............................
Water from the mexican gulf.....
Yeah, I was thinking about that the other day. Why not just dam up the gulf south of florida and turn all those wells loose like this one and then we can just siphon oil right out of the gulf.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD, did you hear Obama's point man (basically his Michael Brown) yesterday when he was having press conferences to update everyone on exactly how the "Top Kill" was going? He was giving like hourly updates and describing in great detail exactly what was being done and how all of the experts were monitoring the process and how they felt about its success chances.
Giving hourly details about how they are pumping the mud in, what the mud is doing, how well it is going, etc.
Then later BP announces that they stopped pumping the mud the night before because they had a problem.
Man, that dude must have felt like a complete ass. I wonder if he was even anywhere near them during the day or how he could have gotten such bad information. It was like he was just watching the live underwater feed and guessing like everyone else.
Gulf Oil Leak - BIRD33 - 05-28-2010
Im really not interested in a debate with you on this.Read the article I posted.This was an industrial accident the government was never supposed to be capable of handling.Oil clean up,yes.Capping blown oil pipelines 5000 feet below the ocean, no.
You've been searching for a reason to blame Obama for something.You think you've found it.In reality you just end up looking foolish.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:Im really not interested in a debate with you on this.Read the article I posted.This was an industrial accident the government was never supposed to be capable of handling.Oil clean up,yes.Capping blown oil pipelines 5000 feet below the ocean, no.
You've been searching for a reason to blame Obama for something.You think you've found it.In reality you just end up looking foolish.
So you didn't hear about the President's pointman updating the press all day yesterday with completely false information? I mean, that's not Obama's fault. But the guy looked like a total tool.
Gulf Oil Leak - BIRD33 - 05-28-2010
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:So you didn't hear about the President's pointman updating the press all day yesterday with completely false information? I mean, that's not Obama's fault. But the guy looked like a total tool.
I did not see it.I'm sure he did look like a dick.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
And I did read the article. And I get the fact that the government is not equipped to handle leaks a mile deep in the ocean. They have a role in it somehow, but since this is sort of new stuff, I think they are just now figuring out what that role is. Understandable.
Sort of the same thing as having a city the size of New Orleans hit with a storm of the magnitude of Katrina and having the levees fail. That was a new one. I think they learned a lot about those type storms, the numbers of poor people that won't evacuate even after being told, and the preparations that need to be done to prevent that from happening again.
Gulf Oil Leak - BIRD33 - 05-28-2010
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:And I did read the article. And I get the fact that the government is not equipped to handle leaks a mile deep in the ocean. They have a role in it somehow, but since this is sort of new stuff, I think they are just now figuring out what that role is. Understandable.
Sort of the same thing as having a city the size of New Orleans hit with a storm of the magnitude of Katrina and having the levees fail. That was a new one. I think they learned a lot about those type storms, the numbers of poor people that won't evacuate even after being told, and the preparations that need to be done to prevent that from happening again.
#1 People did know before Katrina hit that the Levee's could not handle a storm that size.8 will agree with that I bet.
#2 Sure they didnt know how bad it was going to be but it should not take 48 hours to send help.Thats the complaint with the way GW handled it and thats why this oil rig situation is not apples to apples.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:I did not see it.I'm sure he did look like a dick.
Obama's Point man on this disaster is the Commandant of the Coast Guard Thad Allen. Since his embarassing comments yesterday that were completely false aren't online yet (unless you want to watch the video on Nightline's site).
But here's a clip about him.
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Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
:lool: Fucking guy is talking about how the oil leak is stopped and they have a live feed of the leak beside him while he is talking. They had quit pumping mud several hours before this because they had a problem.
Here it is:
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Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:#1 People did know before Katrina hit that the Levee's could not handle a storm that size.8 will agree with that I bet.
#2 Sure they didnt know how bad it was going to be but it should not take 48 hours to send help.Thats the complaint with the way GW handled it and thats why this oil rig situation is not apples to apples.
Um. Okay, let's take "plugging the oil leak" out of the equation. Let's say the government had at least 48 hours (which we all know was more like 2 weeks) to prepare for this huge onslaught of oil that was going to migrate on shore and into the marshes along La. How well did they prepare for that?
And you are going to blame bush because the levees in New Orleans failed? seriously?
Gulf Oil Leak - BIRD33 - 05-28-2010
The guy is a admiral in the coastguard.Obama did not appoint him to anything.
You can't call this guy Obama's Michael Brown because before Bush appointed Brown he ran horse shows and the only reason he got the job was he was Bush's first choice's college roommate.Sad but true.
Gulf Oil Leak - BIRD33 - 05-28-2010
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:Um. Okay, let's take "plugging the oil leak" out of the equation. Let's say the government had at least 48 hours (which we all know was more like 2 weeks) to prepare for this huge onslaught of oil that was going to migrate on shore and into the marshes along La. How well did they prepare for that?
And you are going to blame bush because the levees in New Orleans failed? seriously?
Is anyone saying the cleanup effort is going badly cause I'm not reading that.Its a huge amount of fucking oil.There was no way it wasnt going to fuck shit up.Again you look like you are grasping at straws.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:The guy is a admiral in the coastguard.Obama did not appoint him to anything.
You can't call this guy Obama's Michael Brown because before Bush appointed Brown he ran horse shows and the only reason he got the job was he was Bush's first choice's college roommate.Sad but true.
The guy is the guy that Obama has put in charge of the government's response to this disaster. There isn't anything that says that when you have an oil leak in the gulf the Commandant of the Coast guard is the person you put in charge of it. Obama picked him to head up the disaster response. Sad but true.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD33 Wrote:Is anyone saying the cleanup effort is going badly cause I'm not reading that.Its a huge amount of fucking oil.There was no way it wasnt going to fuck shit up.Again you look like you are grasping at straws.
did you watch that first video I posted? because if you did, I can't see how you can say that "no one is saying the cleanup effort is going badly". They aren't saying its going badly. They are saying its going horribly, inexcusable. Wanting people fired. Etc. Just watch the video and tell me that's not what they are saying.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
CNN.com Wrote:The revelation that BP suspended the "top kill" effort for 16 hours before it was restarted late Thursday afternoon troubled some.
Neither Obama nor Coast Guard Adm. Thad Allen, who is leading the government's response to the oil spill, appeared to be aware of the break when they addressed reporters at separate news conferences Thursday.
A White House official told CNN that people inside the White House knew about the temporary halt in the "top kill," but it wasn't clear if Obama was aware of it.
Plaquemines Parish President Billy Nungesser, who has been critical of the federal response to the spill, said the delay in information from BP was "par for the course."
"We've been dealing with this from day one, and the information has not flowed on anything," he said.
Oh noes. 16 hours and they didn't know anything about it.
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-28-2010
BIRD is in way over his head on this one. LMFAO!
Gulf Oil Leak - leeman - 05-28-2010
Flumper Barflusterbutt Wrote:BIRD is in way over his head on this one. LMFAO!
And this is news why???
Gulf Oil Leak - Flumper Barflusterbutt - 05-29-2010
Man, looking at the live feed video of that well head, it doesn't look like what they are doing is working.
Where is that "Mission Accomplished" picture?