Oil Rig Explodes in Gulf Of Mexico

Have you been sniffing glue? Like dependency of foreign oil do you? Give our remaining wealth to our economic foes because of irresponsible development and management of our own resources by our own government (who btw - have thrown more regulatory monkey wrenches into responsible and profitable production into industry developed enterprises than Carter has pills). . . man when are you going to learn that Govt Is The Problem, not the answer?

@hellnwait
-------" Like dependency of foreign oil do you? "--------

Don't look now, but 3/4 of the oil we are using right now is imported, and the % ratio keeps rising. We are currently sending over $500 Billion per year out of the country to import oil. Even if we tripled oil production(we can't) we'd still be importing oil. This is a threat to national security, international politics, and it is crippling our economy. No one seems to give a damn.

Biofuels and natural gas can do anything that can be done with petroleum. Better and cheaper. And, they can be produced by workers right here in the US, using resources that are right here, and very frequently just going to waste right now. Every $1 that we spend on biofuels is $1 less we spend on imported oil. Every $1 we spend on natural gas is $2 less we spend on imported oil(natural gas is cheaper than oil on a per unit energy cost basis). Every $1 we do not send out of the country is $1 of economic stimulus money that stays right here and builds the US economy, and does not cost us one cent in taxes.

The choice seems crystal clear to me.

That is true, yet our own environmental regulations have done nothing but discourage the development of our own oil independence. . . that fact is also indisputable and crystal clear to me as well.

:
I agree with you hellnwait. Theodore Roosevelt once said, "Do what you can, with what you have, from where you are."

I only have a few bricks. I don't have enough bricks to build a wall big enough to keep oil from being imported into this country. But I'm putting down the few bricks that I do have. Truth about biofuels, environment, the economy and the ability to let others know the truth. My hope is that other people will join me, and come add their bricks to the wall. If we have enough people join us, and add their bricks to the wall, we will have our wall.

I hope you will join me. I want a better world, for everyone in it. And I am trying to build it one brick at a time. I will need a lot of people to work with me.

And keep posting new articles in groups such as "BP Catastrophe," so people are constantly reminded.

we may have philosophical and political differences wd, but I'm with you on this!

Maybe we are not so different as it sometimes appears.

That is so, it is that we oft differ on which is the "right" means to achieve nearly, if not the same goals.

Product??? Do you mean oil?

A simple fire? As opposed to a complex fire?

What you are doing is try to deny that this event even happened when clearly it did happen.

There should be no offshore oil permits allowed to drill for oil. This incident shows that there can be no assurance that oil can be drilled and produced safely.

All the Liberal idiots can do is B.I.O.B.

Dare I ask.... What does B.I.O.B. mean?

Blame It On Bush!

Thank you.

Hell yeah blame it on bush!!! this is what happens when you deregulate and let the industry make the rules!!

Halliburton took its $36 Billion in Iraq/Afghanistan no bid war contracts and packed up its entire corporate headquarters and moved to Abu Dhabi, UAE when the GAO, Congress, and Judge Advocate General's offices began investigating them.

UAE does not have an extradition treaty with the US.

We've come to expect this type of thing to happen whenever we let people with your political and environmental views run things.

oil junkies.

that too. But seriously calling President Obama all those names is sooooo 5 minutes ago :P

I just want to know where those Swat Teams are that he put out there. Hummm

We haven't forgotten what Obama stands for.

the fact that this is all our faults, probably be more accurate considering we are the ones complacent on oil.

ONE human being (not "you hippies") caused danger at the Discovery building. This one human being clearly was not capable of thinking clearly, to say the very least. I doubt if he was ever an actual "hippie," at least when it comes to those of us political hippies from the Sixties, who would not condone violence... as you should know.

As for the rest of your insane writing, you really ARE out of your bloody, stupid mind. "Campaign of terror"?!?!?!?!?? Mr. Alphabet, you cannot possibly be taken seriously, you pathetic -- and dangerous -- hateful idiot.

Agreed out of the mind of dumpkoffs comes inane chatter.

He was an insane gun owner.

I am not part of any so-called made-up "Campaign of Terror" of yours. Do not project me as such. That is a slanderous statement if you're including me, personally, in your ugly slam.

It hasn't started. I would say that you sound like a typical far right conservative from the 50s, but they weren't as big as crackpots as you. Hell, even the 9/11 conspiracy theorists have some logical arguements to back their claims.

Or maybe it was North Korea!!!

He's being facetious. It's harmless.

He's neither facetious nor harmless.

Voted UP

Your just a big meanie I suppose. LOL Hurt their tender little feelings.

We really only like that because we have something called "evidence" to back our claim. In case you don't know what it is (as it seems you don't), evidence are pieces of information that are used to back up a claim and make it valid. It's a lot easier to be right when you have evidence and don't just pull shit out your ass.

I'll give you that we "libs" have made our share of baseless assumptions, but your entire political stance is based purely on falsehoods.

Terrorist hippies?????

Not a bad idea. Hey everyone!!!! Let's all go smoke dope, dance naked and make love in the park----then we can run around and stick flowers in the hair of unsuspecting conservatives! Well,............if they have any hair to stick them in that is.

lol next time let them suffer in their rig... i am sick of saving people who destroy the planet.

CalgarC wrote that. I did not write that. I wouldn't say or think such a thing. And I'm most uncomfortable with CalgarC's statement, believe me. I don't know this individual.

Be careful how you word things, because you're lumping together everyone. I speak for no one but MYSELF, Mr. Alphabet!

Not only are you out of your bloody mind, but you're bordering on a lawsuit.

THINK ABOUT IT.

"...bordering on a lawsuit...". That's funny. What is the cause of action? Anyhow. I have enjoyed watching you guys spar here.
What we do need to ask ourselves is why. Why, after many years of no explosions we now have two. One we had in deep water in April and Obama nixed the deep water drilling. Now we have a producing, not drilling rig in shallow water, above Obamas 500 ft depth margin. We need to ask what is going on. Coincidence? Perhaps but who is to benefit. Certainly not the oil companies. Earth Liberation Front (ELF)? Yes but do they have the infrastructure to do the recent one much less the one in April? I don't know. The administration. Yes on both counts but to suggest that even this administration would go there is to invite conclusions that we do not want to ponder. I'll stick with coincidence for now in spite of the fact that I find it unlikely. Just musing.
Thanks for the entertainment you guys. Lawsuit, that's funny. Why don't you guys meet in person and settle it? Better than enriching attorneys and much more fun.

Bet you a buck CalgarC couln't fight his way out of a paper bag. Little minds talk big.

i understand... i just can't care for anyone who would even think of making a living working in an oil rig.

have you at any point in life had a thought that that actually mattered?
or is it always the same narrow-minded bullshit?

Too safe inthe armchair however, the older I get the more apt I am to buy someone a beer than to roll around in the dirt with them. Certainly flying anywhere for that is something I would not do unless extenuating circumstances existed. One of the beauties of the internet is that civil discussion/disagreement cannot exist, especially in the living room of liberals. Let em insult. It provides me with humor and, short of training opportunities in person, that will do nicely.

yah cause were all idiots magic and fairies are gonna save us from the big bad oil companies.

Then don't dump toxic chemicals in the environment. I'd say that is pretty basic. Shouldn't be too hard a concept to grasp.

Here's another concept for you. Internal combustion engines can run better on ethanol than they can on gasoline because ethanol has an octane rating 112. It can withstand a much higher compression ratio than gasoline. About 2.5 times as much compression without preignition. The compression ratio determines the efficiency of an ICE, the higher the compression ratio, the more efficient the engine. That is why all of the fastest, most advanced race cars in the world, the Indy League Racing Circuit cars, all run on 100% ethanol, and have run on alcohol fuels for over 45 years.
And ethanol is safe. If it is spilled in water---it simply dilutes disappears. Ethanol is not absorbed through the skin. It is so safe, that hospital workers wash their hands with it many times an hour, all day, everyday they work. Try that with gasoline. You can even drink it. Without ethanol in it----nobody would want to drink a beer, wine or mixed drinks. Try that with gasoline. Biodiesel is routinely made from oil used to make french fries----when it is, you can even smell the french fries when the engine is running. Try that with petroleum diesel fuel. I'll bet you wouldn't want many french fries. You won't find any colognes or perfumes on the market that smell like petroleum diesel fumes.

We don't need magic to save us from oil. We have biofuels, ethanol, biodiesel, and methane. Biofuels can do anything that petroleum can, and they do it better, and are safe to produce, handle and use. Clean, safe, and part of the natural carbon cycle that has sustained life on earth for hundreds of millions of years. Biofuels are better for cars, humans, and the earth.

thanks for some real info from a legit source -cheers

Let me guess, they had help from the evil commie-socialist with a mission to replace our Judeo-Christian nation with an islamo-fascist society hell bent on castrating and euthanizing all the good, white christians, or is that too sane?

So you admit Obama is behind it. Wow good guess that's what I think too!

no i think it was aliens, the government and aliens are colluding to help wipe out major population centers and they want to take out all of our precious oil. so people like you cant drive your SUV and have to do something besides be a jackass on the internet all day

The fact that you believe that... is actually not surprising at all. You seem like the type of person that believe anything told to you by any right wing talking-head.

Oh, good, your just a troll. Carry on.