Your Thoughts On The BP Spill

Comment by DeeperCheaper on June 5, 2010 at 10:17pm

I have been emotionally overcome by the images of the brown pelicans awash in oil on the Louisiana shore.

I became so emotional that I pulled my billfold out, just knowing I had a blank check in there, and was just about to write President Hussein a $10,000.00 check, just to help him (if nothing else) to pay for the fuel for AF1 to come visit the coast and offer up his enlightening insights on exactly how to deal with this "mother of all disasters"....

But I got diverted....(Imagine that!!)

For one thing, I did not see camera crews walking down the beach, filming their approach to the deeply wronged pelicans. All I saw was a cut-away shot, which could be contrived. But that is just wrong of me to believe the media would contrive a photo op to serve up an agenda....donch'a think?

But the real biggie came as I dug deep into my billfold to find that blank check, and Lo and Behold!!! I found my hunting/fishing license!! Guess whut!!! It has a sticker on the back of it wherein I paid the Department of the Interior $12.50 a year.....so I could blow a bunch of ducks and geese out of the sky!!! Haven't done all the math, but I do believe this $12.50 entitles me to kill somewhere around 150 ducks of various varieties, along with about 100 geese.

Lemme figger this out.......I can go to Louisiana, and in the interest of entertainment, masculinity, feral lust, and just plain old selfishness, blow about 250 birds a year out of the sky? Dang! I love my guv'mint!!! They must actually support the destruction of wildlife, or they wouldn't have accepted my $12.50. Right?

Or do you think they lack the courage to stop speaking out of both sides of their mouth? If they stop the hunting of migratory birds, they might lose a vote or two....and NO politician wants to do that.......

It gets Deeper............

Comment by levi smith on June 7, 2010 at 7:04pm

You can anticipate the worst still check everything, Push button step pedal, BUT IF YOU SEE PIECES OF THE BOP COMING OUT OF THE HOLE SURE AS **** STOP!!!!!!!

Comment by Chris Keilberg on June 9, 2010 at 10:07am

It’s The Greens That Sowed The Seeds Of The Gulf Oil Disaster

June 9, 2010 by John Myers

To the Greens I have six words regarding the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico: Your President, your policies, your fault.

After all Barack Obama was the progressive Green candidate, a thinker who could steer the course in the 21st Century. Oprah anointed then-Senator Obama as "The Chosen One". To Oprah and a great majority of Liberals, Obama was the anti-Dubya; a larger than life leader with savior qualities that would lead us to peace and overcome all obstacles.

So far, so bad. America’s endgame for Iraq is in question because of increasing levels of Shiite-Sunni violence. Afghanistan looks more untenable all the time. The recovery is sluggish and healthcare has been rammed down the throats of the American people. Now we face an enormous crisis in the Gulf of Mexico. It’s been almost two months since an explosion sent crude pumping into the Gulf and the Obama administration has shown an astonishing lack of leadership.

David Gergen, a centrist political commentator and advisor to four Presidents, has pointed out a basic lack of leadership from the Obama administration: “Ultimately it is not the responsibility of BP or any other company to protect American interests but the responsibility of the Federal government.”

While on Anderson Cooper 360° on CNN, Gergen added: “If our government had fought World War II like the way we’re fighting the oil spill, there’s a good chance many of us would be speaking German today.”

Gergen is hardly alone in the criticism. Former Secretary of State Colin Powell, the general who endorsed Obama in 2008, says the President has been far too slow in asserting leadership over the Gulf spill and the time has come for a "comprehensive and total attack" on the problem.

So here it is, a news flash to Oprah and the Liberals: When it comes to leadership, Barack Obama is a lot more Herbert Hoover than he is Harry Truman, regardless of how many “the buck stops here” speeches Obama chooses to give. Little wonder that a recent USA Today/Gallup survey showed that six out of 10 Americans believe the Federal government is doing a “poor” or “very poor” job handling the spill.

The President bristles at criticism that the Gulf crisis is his Katrina. Even in the face of the failure of BP to stem the spill with its top-kill option, Obama was defending the Federal government’s record and promised aggressive action to ensure future drilling is done safely. He has extended a moratorium on new exploration drilling in the Gulf and announced that 33 current projects in the deep water will be suspended along with two permits for exploration wells in the Beaufort Sea off Alaska.

“As we continue our response effort, we’re also moving quickly on steps to ensure that a catastrophe like this never happens again,” he said. “I’ve said before that producing oil here in America is an essential part of our overall energy strategy. But all drilling must be safe.”

Respectfully Mr. President, can we not worry about future leaks until we fix this one? After all, the BP gusher has well surpassed the 1989 Exxon spill in Alaska as the largest ever in the United States. Crude has continued to spew for 52 days after it began with a rig explosion that killed 11 people. Every effort to stop the spill has so far proved unsuccessful.

When I was a boy on the farm we didn’t worry about the horses that might get out; we scurried about to catch the horse that had gotten out. And right now there is a big and nasty animal rolling about the Gulf presenting a clear and present danger to the United States. Meanwhile we are getting the Green lecture—how to stop future oil spills. Which brings me to my second news flash—it is Green policies that got us into this mess in the first place.

The Greens Made Us Drill So Deep
Last January I wrote about the problems and costs of drilling for oil at such extraordinary depths as those being worked off the coast of Louisiana. It was called The Deep Truth About Oil and the Gulf of Mexico.

In that column I said: “Chevron has spent 10 years and a whopping $2.7 billion for this project. This is the cost of running a drill and casing more than 30,000 feet through earth and ocean, the same distance that an airliner flies above the earth. Chevron will spend billions more and in the end, even with all the high-tech in the world, there are no guarantees that its deep-water experiment will hit pay-dirt. In fact there is less than a 50/50 chance that Chevron’s latest deep-sea adventure will yield anything. Still Chevron and their brethren don’t have a choice.

“The Wall Street Journal sums up the situation: ‘Big easily tapped oil fields close to shore have become off-limits.’”

Fast forward a few months and we saw the real danger in not drilling in shallow waters and places like the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR). We see what happens when Big Oil is forced to drill in 5,000 feet or more of seawater; depths at which accidents can’t be easily repaired.

I’ve been talking to my friends in the Alberta oil patch about this for weeks. But the problem didn’t see the light of day until the May 29 episode of Meet the Press. There Host David Gregory asked White House Energy Adviser Carol Browner if in response to the Gulf Coast oil spill, America should start drilling in ANWR.

Gregory asked: "Is the problem that we’re drilling in water that’s just too deep?"

Gregory continued: "Should you (the White House) even rethink your own approach to the environment to say… maybe in the Arctic Wildlife Reserve; we ought to be drilling there… we ought to be going into shallower waters so that this can be done more safely?"

Incredibly Gregory wasn’t given an answer. But even I know this simple truth—that we need to be drilling in shallow water and places like ANWR. Places where accidents can be corrected.

Don’t expect any leadership on this from the President even though his decision to suspend deepwater drilling off the U.S. coast will have consequences.

“An extended moratorium on safely producing our oil and natural gas resources from the Gulf of Mexico would create a moratorium on economic growth and job creation,” said Jack Gerard, chief executive of the American petroleum Institute.

It’s worth noting that the Gulf of Mexico currently produces about 1.6 million barrels of oil per day—an amount larger than the output of Canada’s oil sands. It was expected to grow to 1.9 million barrels by 2025. But the jury is out on this until Obama—"The Chosen One"—chooses leadership over politics and stops this catastrophe.

Yours for real wealth and good health,

John Myers
Myers’ Energy and Gold Report

Comment by Overshot on June 9, 2010 at 2:36pm

"But the real biggie came as I dug deep into my billfold to find that blank check, and Lo and Behold!!! I found my hunting/fishing license!! Guess what!!! It has a sticker on the back of it wherein I paid the Department of the Interior $12.50 a year.....so I could blow a bunch of ducks and geese out of the sky!!! Haven't done all the math, but I do believe this $12.50 entitles me to kill somewhere around 150 ducks of various varieties, along with about 100 geese.

Lemme figger this out.......I can go to Louisiana, and in the interest of entertainment, masculinity, feral lust, and just plain old selfishness, blow about 250 birds a year out of the sky?"

Ah, Deeper, you might check on that license a bit closer. I suspect when you look real close, there isn't anything on there that says anything about the oil covered waterfowl being fair game....you gotta save those ya' know. Only the non-oil covered waterfowl are fair game to be blasted out of the sky/water.

Go figure....

Comment by Overshot on June 9, 2010 at 2:37pm

Sorry all, am I being a bit too cynical and jaded? If so, my tongue-in-cheek apologies....

Comment by Terry Phillips on June 17, 2010 at 4:57pm

Hello just a thought here, why can't BP or Transocean just cut off the BOP and adapt their drilling vessel with and oversize casing sub and drill over top of there 21 inch dia. casing there and put a stop to this whole thing. It would be a lot cheaper and easier than what i have seen them do. or use and inflatable packer to slow it down?

Comment by David J. on July 11, 2010 at 6:12pm

Fellas, I just heard Axelrod say "this is the worst environmental disaster in history". Nay, nay I say. The worst environmental disaster in history has and will continue to be the excruciating bloviation that comes from the mouth of Washington politicians who insist on blabbering on about a subject they know nothing about. What a waste of good ol O2!

Just my take on it, David.

Comment by DeeperCheaper on July 11, 2010 at 7:45pm

Well said David J.

Somebody needs to tell Axelrod about Chernobyl, WWI, WWII, Ixtoc, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, etc.......ad infinitum..........ad nauseaum..

But one with an agenda can't let a catastrophe go to waste, right?

D

Comment by Drilling Ahead on July 11, 2010 at 8:55pm

Saw a billboard on the highway on the way home this evening. Local election time here and the billboard supported no particular party or candidate, it just said

"YOU CAN'T FIX STUPID, BUT YOU CAN SURE VOTE IT OUT"

I really hope local folks here take that advice.

Comment by Dave Sereda on July 11, 2010 at 9:09pm

So Curtis that is a good phrase. When is your next election or which state are you in? And by changing one governor or one senator would that really make much of a difference?

We can change members of parliament and not much will change, we have to change the Prime Minister to do anything and we are having a lot of trouble doing that. Can't get anyone with common sense.

Comment

• ‹ Previous
• 1
• …
• 3
• 4
• 5
• 6
• 7
• Next ›
• Page