Drill Baby Drill: New Leak Pumping 5,000 Barrels A Day Into Gulf
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This is what happens when you stay addicted to oil and refuse to innovate.
The Coast Guard says a new leak has been found at the site where an oil platform exploded and sank in the Gulf of Mexico.
Rear Adm. Mary Landry says that 5,000 barrels a day is now estimated to be leaking. Officials had been saying for days that it was 1,000 barrels a day.
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..but at least the oil companies are getting record profits! Who needs the environment anyway? At least the oil robber barons can add another story to their mansions this year.
One would hope that President Obama will nix the drilling plan he proposed but I’m not holding my breath.
Too bad 90% of the politicians are bought-and-paid-for or else we could have some REAL energy reform and invest in renewable energy sources sometime rather then destroying the planet by continually feeding the oil addiction.
This is what happens when you stay addicted to oil and refuse to innovate.
No wonder you think MY logic is BS.
No wonder you think MY logic is BS.
Why not? Everything else you post is.
Get a grip people, if you think switching over to a new energy source can happen immediately; then you are completely misinformed. It will take 40-50 years to switch everything from natural resources, assuming we even had an alternative solution right now.
We need something to hold us over until we have an alternative solution, that “something” has to be the natural resources that we have in our own country, unless you want to keep funding terrorist nations and be completely dependent on foreign sources.
Do yourself a favor, learn some history and get your facts right.
–Oliver’s Energy Advisor
That doesn’t make any sense. Never try what, not developing better alternatives to oil?
Actually what I’m saying is we should try. We just shouldn’t do things that clearly don’t work.
Oil clearly doesn’t work?
I think perhaps some investigation into preventing these leaks might be useful, but – oil clearly doesn’t work?
Oliver is suffering under the delusion that we can just pull an energy substitute for oil out of our collective asses and stop drilling today.
Face it Oliver, unless Obama has figured out a way to convert unicorn farts into a fantastic new energy source immediately, we are going to be using oil for at least the next couple of decades until we can develop and rollout alternative energy sources to take oil’s place.
Since we have to keep drilling, and Oliver and the Democrats are aghast at the idea of drilling in our own backyard and polluting our own waters, we have to go elsewhere for more of our oil.
Better to let these environmental disasters happen in other (mostly brown) people’s country, eh Oliver?
You’re an idiot. Blatantly so. I’m saying we need to devote more time and resource to alternative energy than pretending the future is drilling.
Spill here, spill now!
Who’s saying the future is drilling? Really, I’d like to know. Please provide a link. EVERYONE, even dimbulb Sarah Palin, recognizes (or at least says out loud) that we need an alternative to oil. The problem is, there isn’t one yet, and even if we had one in our hands today, it would still take decades for it to completely replace our use of oil.
What has President Awesome done to create a viable oil replacement that Bush, Clinton, Bush Sr. and Reagan didn’t do before him? And spare me the “Oh, Obama has earmarked $x billions for alternative or green energy”. Where is the “Manhattan Project” type effort that we’re realistically going to need to overhaul this country’s energy infrastructure? Cap and Trade? Sorry, but the main focus on that is reducing our energy use. It funnels money to expand existing “clean” energy (wind, solar, geothermal), none of which are going to be replacing oil. However, only $20 billion goes towards basic R&D to find a new source. And I must have somehow missed Obama’s push for the expansion of clean, safe, nuclear power that could replace many oil (and coal) fired plants TODAY.
Your original comment was “This is what happens when you stay addicted to oil and refuse to innovate”.
What you’re really doing here is clucking disapprovingly at the current oil spill and acting like if we’d just listened to wise old Uncle Oliver and developed alternative energy like he suggested, we wouldn’t be in this mess.
You’re a tool, Oliver.
Where is the “Manhattan Project” type effort that we’re realistically going to need to overhaul this country’s energy infrastructure?
Dave, you know full well that if Obama proposed such a program (something I would love to see as well), the Republicans and their enablers (I’m looking at you, Dave, Frank, SaveFarris, et al) would just shout it down, water it down, or obstruct it — just like they’ve done with everything else Obama has proposed. All they have to do is pick one of the following lines of argument and run with it:
“It costs too much, and the country’s broke!”
“You’re moving too fast! Slow down! Start over!”
“SOCIALISM! Blargh!”
“Show me the birth certificate!”
And anyone reading this who thinks anything differently simply hasn’t been paying attention.
It doesn’t matter what Obama proposes, they’re against it. When he supported offshore drilling I actually expected the teabaggers to start screaming about that.
You mean Obama’s offshore drilling plan that actually restricts more than it opens up? Specifically:
* No drilling in the Pacific Ocean.
* No drilling in a large portion of the Atlantic Ocean.
* No drilling in some of the most promising areas of the Gulf of Mexico.
* No drilling in much of Alaska.
You’d be wrong, Tim. I’d be the first one to give Obama a standing ovation. But I’m not gonna hold my breath waiting for it. Or for Obama to do anything about unemployment, for that matter.
Ha ha! Sucks to be you! w00t!!!
You’d be wrong, Tim.
No, you would.
Woooooooo!!!!!! In your face!!!!
Well that destroys my fishing trip in Lake Ponchatrain! More evidence that BP(beyond petroleum LMFAO!) is full of shit.
I am not eager to see the oil companies drill our NC coast, but in fairness energy is not the only product of oil. For instance:
The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge publishes a list of oil uses on its Web site.
Here is a brief excerpt:
Guitar strings
Pantyhose
Golf bags
Dentures
Candles
Hair coloring
Aspirin
Footballs
Food preservatives
Shampoo
Lipstick
Electric blankets
Ammonia
Pillows
So like it or not we need that oil for many years to come.
I think this assumes that we could not make these items without petroleum. Not exactly the case, though most industry would have to retool to make those replacements. But, that would be ‘investment’ and why invest when you can just do what you were already doing?
Oliver is suffering under the delusion that we can just pull an energy substitute for oil out of our collective asses
Not exactly. But there are alternatives.
http://gas2.org/2008/06/11/solazyme-makes-first-algae-diesel-to-meet-strict-us-standard/
Good thing we tried.
EVERYONE, even dimbulb Sarah Palin, recognizes (or at least says out loud) that we need an alternative to oil.
so when she and McCain were getting people to chant “Drill, baby, drill”
they were talking about what, drilling for wind?
It is awfully windy in Pamlico Sound. Just sayin’. Consistently windy.
Translation: We can’t change today, so why bother try tomorrow?
Duros, we can’t do that because Al Gore is fat and Ted Kennedy and shut up that’s why…