5000 barrels a day of oil (210,000 gallons) leak off the coast of Louisiana

[Dorje113]

While it can't actually rain oil, I'm def. worried about a hurricane redistributing it everywhere and causing a much larger mess.

 

[med_breeder]

What becomes of the oil particles that rises into the sky when oil is burned?
I am no scientist but what goes up must come down.

Can corexit 9600 evaporate?

 

[med_breeder]

What I find staggering to absorb is all you people blaming Obama, car drivers and everyone but the real fucking criminals........greedy, corrupt, narcissistic white collar Corpo-Nazi scum who gamble with the health of our planet for their own malignant gain.

We have become so used to the exploitative "profit before all" paradigm that drives our world that we have come to expect this kind of behaviour, and write it off as "business is business".

Should we not be able to expect companies to behave in a responsible, safe manner WITHOUT having to be regulated, inspected and monitored?? Why is that such a stretch??

Until the profit motive and the concept of infinite economic growth is put aside and a truly long-term, sustainable paradigm is adopted by humanity, shit like this will keep happening, because the greed is encouraged by the system, and the people responsible are not accountable at all for their parasitic and self-centered exploitation and the permanent devastation is causes.

You want to put an end to shit like this, start by executing the CEO of BP and any BP executive who was involved in that rig. If that had been done to the Bhopal criminals after they murdered 25 000 innocent people, the Deepwater Horizon tragedy would never have happened, you can be sure.
Mr Arrogant Asshole BP CEO Tony Hayward would have made damn fucking sure that rig was safe, if it was his own personal ass on the line.....dontcha think?

And until their own fucking personal asses ARE on the line, the Corpo-Nazi monsters of the world will continue to pull off shit like this and laugh about it in their ivory towers...................over-priviledged, over-paid, arrogant, malignant and untouchable.

After all, who cares about some redneck shrimp farmers and a buncha sea turtles......man's God given right to rape the planet for personal gain is so much more important.

Just ask hoosier, he'll agree with ya 100%......but only after he blames Obama.

Genkisan,
I feel and respect your anger. I do not condone violence, but I see your point. time and time we see that real change only happens when the greedy elite's arse is on the line.
That being said
I am just thinking outloud now:
As a youth in my neck of the woods many SUV dealerships, and condo communites were burned down. So called "Eco-terrorist" groups took responsibility for it. In my view that was a grave over reaction.
Now, where are these so called "Eco-terrorist"?
They have a fat juicy boogeyman out there.
It leads me to believe that these eco-terrorist were no more than just a bunch of scared,bored,rich,spoiled kids. They were just vandels who framed their distruction in a way that would let them sleep at night. They daydream about what life would be like as a crip or blood pulling 187's.

Every healthy society needs the faint wiff of vigilantism in order to survive.

All good pitchers from time to time need to throw a 90 mph fast ball high and tight. A brush back, or out right plunking the batter is key to dominating the plate.

Just thinking out loud
Don't taze me bro.

 

[elmanito]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2010/jun/25/bp-accused-of-killing-turtles

BP is doing a nice job to safe wild life.All in the sake to safe money.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YzCN7qStYXQ

Approximately 2 million barrels have leaked since this evening into the Gulf.EnCore Oil found a big oil field in the North Sea nearby Scotland which is good for 300 million barrels of oil.If Deepwater Horizon is as big or even bigger, well they can better change the name into Gulf of Oil.

Namaste

 

[maxibiogreen]

Perhaps it would help folks to not be so alarmist. Sure, this is a bad deal, and possibly our worst. But to be so alarmist that one would think doomsday is upon us is simply illogical thinking.

You ask about percentages...well, let's look at the percentages....
The total square mile of water that covers the earth is about 139668500 sq. miles in total.
Now, the oil spill covers about 1800 sq. miles of ocean.
Doing the math, we see that the total square miles of oil spill is
1/77594'ths of the total. So for those who have trouble following the math...that would mean that if we had all the water boxed up in 1 square mile boxes, there would be ONE of them gone out of the 77,594 remaining square mile boxes of ocean.
That is precisely the percentage of oxygen lost, if in fact that amount of water is not putting out oxygen.

Air locks for the White House....good grief.

You must be smoking bad but real bad weed or it can also be the polluted air that you breathe everyday who fucked your brain up.
If this was an isolated case it would be damaging for the environement but not vital for the planet and her living creatures but right now there are far too many problems everywhere on earth to believe stupid things like u do.
Open your eyes on the rest of the world see how bad it is and remember you re living in.

 

[danut]

Don't you mean - fish are trying to evolve?

No .. I used to live in Midland MI .. global HQ for Dow.

Talked to an old fart there. He told me about the old days. If they had an excess of something they would just open some valve and dump crap in the river.

Anyway, the old guy would talk about the fish. The ones with eyes burned white that seemed to try to swim out of the water. They'd climb up on to the shore to try to avoid the bad water.

Out in the Gulf, smaller fish move toward shore to try to find better water. Then the sharks followed the small fish. So now there are swarms of large sharks in the surf. Everyone looking for oxygen.

In the news video, the little fish were jumping out of the water. Almost like the water was boiling there.

1800 square miles of freshly dead ocean. I guess it might be OK if it stops there.

What happens when the relief wells don't work?

 

[danut]

Perhaps it would help folks to not be so alarmist. Sure, this is a bad deal, and possibly our worst. But to be so alarmist that one would think doomsday is upon us is simply illogical thinking.

You ask about percentages...well, let's look at the percentages....
The total square mile of water that covers the earth is about 139668500 sq. miles in total.
Now, the oil spill covers about 1800 sq. miles of ocean.
Doing the math, we see that the total square miles of oil spill is
1/77594'ths of the total. So for those who have trouble following the math...that would mean that if we had all the water boxed up in 1 square mile boxes, there would be ONE of them gone out of the 77,594 remaining square mile boxes of ocean.
That is precisely the percentage of oxygen lost, if in fact that amount of water is not putting out oxygen.

Air locks for the White House....good grief.

I find it very alarming that 1800 square miles of oxygen production has been depleted from our planet. I find it even more alarming that it is still growing.

Those square miles are our CO2 scrubbers.

 

[JacuzziSplot]

I agree with amos's quote above. Logic and goodwill are gone in us politics. We piss on everything this country was founded on. Fucking hippies missed the whole idea of free and equal. It doesnt leave room for handouts, tax breaks, special classes, etc. because nothing good comes from pity it only leads to slavery.

 

[elmanito]

I agree with one thing with Hoosier and that the oil spill is not the beginning of the end of the world or like some say the beginning of doomsday.Mother Nature can handle with oil although in the meanwhile a lot of sea creatures will die caused by the oil or the chemicals BP is using.I'm sure that this is the beginning of the end of the oil industry.

I wonder however how emotionless Hoosier will react if someone start to spray a herbicide like paraquat in his botanical garden on his flowers during one night without knowing who did it.

Namaste

 

[MoldyFrogToe]

Sure, that zone of oxygen depletion may be small compared to the rest of the ocean but keep in mind that the rest of the ocean isnt similar to the gulf in terms of its ecological value. One can measure that zone in area but if measured in ecological value the numbers would be much different.

And when you pile on the rest of the globe's destruction brought by humans, a zone of oxygen depletion becomes even more significant!

 

[Marywanna]

"Yes We Can" is turning into "Yes We Did". We cannot let that happen.

 

[mriko]

Other than that it CAN'T rain oil.

Wait for the hurricane season to start and you might retrieving these words...

I find it very alarming that 1800 square miles of oxygen production has been depleted from our planet. I find it even more alarming that it is still growing.

Those square miles are our CO2 scrubbers.

Then you should worry even more than you are, 1800 sq miles is not that big area compared to what's destroyed in Amazonian or Indonesian rain forests.

Sure, that zone of oxygen depletion may be small compared to the rest of the ocean but keep in mind that the rest of the ocean isnt similar to the gulf in terms of its ecological value.

Actually this dead zone is not something new, but thanks to the leak, it's going to grow even bigger and instead of being seasonal could become permanent. There are other ones in the Eastern pacific if memory serves me.


DON'T FORGET NIGERIA, Spills & leaks have released way more oil in the environment than what's going on in the Gulf.

Irie !

 

[MrBomDiggitty]

saw on the news they are collecting a million gallons a day now. still looks a little leaky though

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

"Yes We Can" is turning into "Yes We Did". We cannot let that happen.

That's funny, "yes we did" left town after spending 5 trillion.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Two decades of global commerce have decimated unions. Big banks and special interests with deep pockets fill the gap of contributions. Now corporations have the same freedom ($$$) as individuals.

 

[dagnabit]

So if your neighbor's dog dumps on your sidewalk, you own the cleanup? I'll admit it has to be done but are you ready to take first dibs? Short of blowing up the well, we're dependent on the folks that brought us the problem.

yes blow the fucking well...

untie the hands of the local governments to protect themselves..

and yes if my neighbors dog shits on my sidewalk and leaves it i dont wait months and months and let my kids track it in the house.....i hose it down and shit on his porch

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

WSTT, with all due respect, I try to abide by the TOU. I try to avoid political perception and stick to what can be attributed to fact. The fact that some disagree isn't always free of perception due to politics, not fact. I too have a political perception but it's closer to the center than a few here seem to realize.

 

[JJScorpio]

I get so sick of the same few people ruining thread after thread. This is not a political thread. It was started for those that are affected or would like information regarding clean up efforts, etc. Complaint after complaint come in regarding the same few people. You'll soon be on your way out.

If you can't keep your political views to yourself, don't post in this thread. Because I will ban you personally. This is your one and only warning, and whoever wants to be first, just post some political foolishness or start calling someone names. I don't give a shit how long you've been here. Try me.

 

[flubnutz]

yuk.

 

[DiscoBiscuit]

Clearly the commodity exchanges are subject to being manipulated and have and in likelihood are continuing to be manipulated. Consider that more than 137 billion barrels of oil were traded on the Nymex alone last year. That is not counting all the other exchanges throughout the world referred to above. And yet the world consumes barely 30 billion barrels of oil annually.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/raymond-j-learsy/bps-smoking-gun-and-the-m_b_630275.html