Really upset with BP (understatement)

[Lt.Del]

all the people who want to stop drilling. to them take a hard look at the stuff you use everyday that was made from oil besides for gas

If we don't drill, other countries will, just 50 miles out in international waters.  Want to pay China for oil that is drilled two hours off the coast of Virginia? China doesn't have to listen to U.S. laws.

Made of oil (plastics)..hmmmmm: computers, tv's, ceiling fans, car interiors--instr. cluster-switches-shifter knobs-tempered glass-steering wheels-door panels-dash-interior lights...., Electric car interiors !!, car light lenses, CD's, DVD's, dvd players, BluRays, jewell cases, packaging for everything, vinyl siding, window blinds, shotgun shells, vacuum cleaners, eyeglasses, lawn mower gas tanks-wheels-throttle levers-air cleaner-etc.., vinyl chairs and car interior seats, cameras, smoke alarms, purses, makeup, pens, markers, clocks

All those green protesters should take their plastic posters and shove them....well, this is a family site, nevermind.

[Stephanos]

I've seen the news and heard people talking all about the spill. Politics and blame aside, I feel really bad for the deceased oil workers, their families, the countless families along the gulf coast who rely on fishing and other water related jobs for income and the sea life that inhabits the gulf. Times are hard right now anyway, people trying to stretch a dollar as far as it will go, now more than ever so it seems. This oil spill doesn't help matters. I wish I could wave my hands, say a few words and make it go away, but alas, I can't.     

[team39763]

Could this oil spill evenutally affect the whole planet?  That seems like a lot of oil and with the water currents and systems/cycles it'd seem like that stuff would get into everything.  Is it possible it could even end up in our drinking water?

[topp]

Could this oil spill evenutally affect the whole planet?  That seems like a lot of oil and with the water currents and systems/cycles it'd seem like that stuff would get into everything.  Is it possible it could even end up in our drinking water?

Compared to other oil spills, it's not as bad as the media would have you believe:

http://www.gavinpotenza.com/worst-oil-spills/

[bobcooter]

The sad part is that 11 men were killed, close to 500,000 people will loose their jobs between the loss of fishery and tourism related jobs along the Gulf Coast and the deepwater drilling shut down. The government has turned this thing into an entirely political stunt to force us to go green. To show us the error of our wicked oil dependant ways.. Especially the deepwater drilling shutdown. A judge has ruled not once , but twice for the Dept of the Interior to lift the Drilling Ban, but the Feds won't budge. Obama's solution is to let everyone go on unemployment! Now that took some really deep thought. The Feds stand to loose millions upon millions in future royalty payments due to the undeveloped wells. The country's going broke. Turn your nose up at all of the lost revenue and tell me to caulk around my windows and buy double pane insulated windows.  The window's may help sheild me from some of the hot air coming from Washington. But that's all OK.

[Lt.Del]

good points bobcooter.  It seems anything anyone can do to get people more dependant upon the gov't, it's being done.  Any way possible fo the gov't to be overstepping its bounds, it's being done.  Any way to turn the gov't into a big nanny, it's being done. 

Ultimate Goal is for everyone to be reliant upon the gov't to eat and breathe.  Folks, that means big problems for the future.  I think Germany was like that in the '30's.  We all know what happened.  Well, the stakes are higher now due to the weapons we ALL have, ie, nukes.   

[team39763]

That's it, I'm convinced Obama is trying to ruin America.  I don't know crap about politics, but it seems like he has someone else's best interest in mind....not America's.
Topp, that's a lot of oil in the water.  I wonder how bad that is for the environment?  When I was truck driving, we had a 4 gallons of recycled motor oil bust under the bunk...that crap made me so sick.  I can't imagine how sick those animals feel swimming around in that crap.

[topp]

That's it, I'm convinced Obama is trying to ruin America.  I don't know crap about politics, but it seems like he has someone else's best interest in mind....not America's.
Topp, that's a lot of oil in the water.  I wonder how bad that is for the environment?  When I was truck driving, we had a 4 gallons of recycled motor oil bust under the bunk...that crap made me so sick.  I can't imagine how sick those animals feel swimming around in that crap.

I am not saying it's just a drop in the gulf...
What I am saying is it's being "used" to promote blowbamano's personal agenda...
The media that Hyped him into office has done his beck and call ever since.....

[Grim 82]

Ultimate Goal is for everyone to be reliant upon the gov't to eat and breathe.

+1. How else do you provide job security for people that don't actually produce anything than by making them the caretakers of an otherwise perfectly capable populace?
Not to undermine the severity of this disaster, but the earth has a pretty good way of taking care of itself, it just won't happen overnight (or before the next election ).  Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.

[bobcooter]

SgtDel hit the nail on the head. Anything, anyway to make us all dependent on Uncle Sugar.

[topp]

The proposed Carbon tax (cap and trade) is the first step into taxing us for breathing out CO2....

[bobcooter]

Believe it or not, BP was a big proponent of the Carbon Tax. They were trying to get coal burning power plants to switch to natural gas where they would be a major supplier. Seems like everybody's out to skin you these days.

[smitty77]

Not to undermine the severity of this disaster, but the earth has a pretty good way of taking care of itself, it just won't happen overnight (or before the next election ).  Don't believe anything you hear and only half of what you see.

+1!!  I love all of the "global warming" activists preaching the end of the world is near if we don't change our ways.  10,000 years ago, which is the snap of a finger in the age of the earth, the land I'm standing on was under a mile of ice.  The earth warms and cools but always comes back to some form of a steady-state.  All we're doing is hastening our demise as a species.  Once the human race has eradicated itself from existence, things will return back to normal in another 100,000 years or so.

[bobcooter]

Yea Smitty, we are actually at the end of a warming cycle that has lasted about 15,000 years. I mean it would be nice if it stayed at around 70 degrees year round. But that's not the way it works. Then, the thing that literally makes me sick is is thinking about fat, bloated, pasty Al Gore flying all over the country in his private jet (pumping out millions of pounds of carbon) to tell everyone they should change their lifestyle. He is a plain, old career politician and snake oil salesman.

[Irish_Alley]

the blobs back
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110322/ts_yblog_thelookout/officials-remain-baffled-over-source-of-oil-slick-as-louisiana-coastline-is-oiled-again
now one thing I learned about in welding underwater that when there was a leak the companies would most time just spray it with dawn the soap would attach to the oil and then become heaver than oil and sink to the bottom of the sea. Kind of looks like this might have been what happened