Shell to court: We're ready to drill Arctic Ocean

Soon as all that extra ice melt water weighs down upon the ocean floor bottom drilled into Swiss cheese... we won't be having to worry about oil any more. Just let that ice cold water break through into earth's core buddy-ro there won't be enough left in space to call us Krypton.

I can understand some good-natured teasing and practical jokes, and even a prank, but really I mean it this time too => when does the calendar reach 21st Century?

This isn't about stopping AMERICA, this is about stopping SHELL. When you understand that then maybe you won't look like a total fool here with your "green hatred." This is also about MORALITY GLOBALLY since Shell is a GLOBAL company. Save your BS holier than thou politically partisan sermons for someone who gives a damn. Oil drilling KILLS THIS PLANET, wildlife and marinelife, and is contributing to the tipping point of our climate balance and it is way past time to move on to the future which is totally possible. But of course not to those stuck in the same status quo ruts. You need real vision to understand that as well.

Gee, that was most excellently stated. Uhm, the only thing I feel compelled to add is that most people are looking exclusively at ocean damage. When the Exxon Valdez crashed the News people made a big deal later on about how it wasn't as bad as it could be because the sun had evaporated 4+ million gallons INTO THE AIR.

Oil molecules are too large for the human body to do anything with, so whether we get it one way or in the air we still get dragged behind a pickup truck's bumper.

The jetstream usually dips south from Alaska then swings back north. It just so happens that I was up north and by the time those molecules reached Vermont I suspect they had touched base with enough dust to come down into my breathing space. I left up there some days later driving south to Virginia to my destination. I was feeling real funny almost like my bloodstream contained a poison. That was where I had the worst accident of my life and my disability began on March 27 1989, from which I remain disabled yet to this day.

I don't find evaporated crude oil very funny, nor much of an answer.

I do find it more than passing interesting that eventually I figured out an engine that makes its own fuel "on-the-fly" compressing air by using the swinging kinetic energy of the car body and re-heating water into steam, the two combining to make a powerful yet non-combustion explosion, and no exhaust of any kind. My health was dealt many various blows by a 1,000 lb bale that hit me from 8 feet and took a few extra bounces up & down on me another 3 times.

When I came back, God willing, I showed how people would never, ever have to breathe that airborne garbage again. That was 2003 when I had the process defined. In 2008 I completed the engine design. That's where the story ends. Big Money and Big Money's politicians took over from there. We still play the same broken fiddle two years later. The economies of the world are a broken fiddle too. Men obviously will never build an engine that doesn't pollute, generates its own combo fuel and doesn't begin showing wear for maybe a hundred years.

ssshhh. Don't tell anybody we don't need oil out of the ground any more. The top 1% get really uptight when we talk like that.

But SHELL is the topic of THIS post. Your defense of these murderers actually makes me sick. Got it? YOU SICKEN ME.

This isn't only about DRILLING in regards to Shell. This is about HUMAN RIGHTS ABUSES AND MURDER. Are you that dense? Or just that much of a moral coward? Which is it? BOTH? I don't have the patience anymore to talk to scumbags who defend these companies just because it is either CONVENIENT OR FINANCIALLY REWARDING FOR THEIR LIVES OR FILLS SOME SORT OF BS PARTISAN POLITICAL/IDEOLOGICAL AGENDA. YOU are part of the problem. So don't sit there pontificating to me. I will say it once again so you understand: DRILLING IN GENERAL KILLS THIS PLANET, SHELL (complicit in MURDER in Nigeria) which is the topic of this post in corrolation to OIL is now begging to spread their destruction to the ARCTIC ( also don't recall typing the word America at all anywhere here) one of the most pristine places on Earth and also the one area being hardest hit by the climate change burning their shit causes, all the while KNOWING what that shit causes in the midst of one of the most destructive environmental disasters once again involving OIL. If you can't see the moral and ethical side of this discussion besides being absolutely BLIND to the environmental and economic effects of continuing to burn this shit thus bringing this planet closer to a tipping point, you are HOPELESS... And I have no more time to WASTE on you.

No, Ken Salazar is doing his job exactly and perfectly. His job just has the wrong title. He should be titled Hatchet Man the 1st. Take a hatchet to the Gulf states, take a hatchet to Florida, take a hatchet to the East coast, and by all means take a hatchet to those scoundrels in Massachusetts who dare think they deserve a morning time unobstructed view of the sunrise.

Just take some videos of the sunrise before its hatcheted away, OK?, and play the sunrise on the tribe's cable TV stations. Honestly, why do Indians have to make something so easy into something so difficult I'll never understand. Give em some beads & trinkets it worked before.

No, you were right on time. It has failed and they knew it would. It's called C Y A.

What they were attempting to do -push an upside down "cup" over a heavy upward stream- was pretty much impossible. I see they have published a different explanation, something about ice forming and lifting the dome. That's a very ignorant thing to come up with because they said the dome weighed 100 tons. It would take more than a few ice crystals to lift 100 tons.

Their idea was wrong from the start. What they could have done was lowered two halves, one to each side of the oil streams with a large couple of bolts through both, then tightened the bolts bringing the heavy halves together.

Basically they failed, not by being poor engineers, but failed because deep down they don't think oil spills are all that bad. So they gave a token effort and then blamed failure on ice crystals... knowing all the time the general public wouldn't see through their lie.

Or, if they wanted to git FANCY they could put hinges at the bottom points... so that upon lowering it down the bottom would begin pushing up => closing the top. Kinda like artificial choppers.

Right on! Sometimes I wish there was a hell, just for people like this.

How about we clean the mess in the ocean and stop drilling altogether?

i hear what you are saying but what do you plan to do to change the way things are done? you can just say that like "i dream of genie", but you have to replace it what about planes, trucks, ext. whom will pay to convert all the moter's of the planet to bio-deasal or what have you? we must not be knee jerk even if we are totally correct.

trust me i agree i haven't owned a car since 2002 and haven't had my DL since 2004 (no dui's just don't like the pollution and the half ass i care hybrid stuff)

Diesel trucks, cars can be run on 100% biodiesel with no conversion. I have a diesel VW that I run on 100% (99.9%) biodiesel in the summer. The fuel lines have not clogged. It runs fine. The only complication has been military, redneck republican interference as they don't want the public to know that you don't have to purchase their oil. (They have done all kinds of things to my cars, it has been horrible) This is soy biodiesel You can also run a diesel on grease, that when you need to add a heater and filter.

All cars can presently be run on up to 50% ethanol without any additions. I run my Prius on E-85 year round. David Blume offers an alcohol fuel conversion kit you can add to any car (i think it's about $300.00) that automatically makes the proper adjustments to run on 100% alcohol.

The present problem is finding the fuel. I live in the midwest so E-85 is available but it is GMO corn. I have to travel out of state to get soy biodiesel as the rednecks around here won't sell me any. The soy biodeisel is also GMO. We need sustainable non-GMO fuels to be widely available to the public. That's why people make their own alcohol or use grease.