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2010-05-05 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by tipper 2010-05-05 13:33|| || Front Page|| [11125 views ] Top

#1 While the BP oil geyser pumps millions of gallons of petroleum into the Gulf of Mexico,

Flat out LIE in the first sentence.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2010-05-05 13:40|| 2010-05-05 13:40|| Front Page Top

#2 5,000 barrels/day is 1M gallons every 5 days.

Oh, and if you believe this:
In a closed-door briefing for members of Congress, a senior BP executive conceded Tuesday that the ruptured oil well in the Gulf of Mexico could conceivably spill as much as 60,000 barrels a day of oil, more than 10 times the estimate of the current flow.

Posted by ed 2010-05-05 14:22|| 2010-05-05 14:22|| Front Page Top

#3 If all restrictions were removed from the oil flow it is not impossible that it could produce 60,000 BOPD (Spindletop came in at more than that back in 1903 or so.) If the restrictions were removed abrubtly the odds are that it would blow fast briefly and then sand up/bridge over or otherwise collapse on itself. So you suggest 'blow the restrictions out of the way and cause the well to collapse'? Nah, what if it didn't collapse (and not every well would) - then you have an even bigger problem than you had before.

Posted by Glenmore 2010-05-05 15:08|| 2010-05-05 15:08|| Front Page Top

#4 WAPO is also reporting (h/t to drudge) that just last spring (2009 during current Obummer administration) EPA exempted BP from a detailed environmental impact analysis.

And all this time I thought it was just Bush and Cheney who were in bed with Big Oil.

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2010-05-05 16:51|| 2010-05-05 16:51|| Front Page Top

#5 #4 WAPO is also reporting (h/t to drudge) that just last spring (2009 during current Obummer administration) EPA exempted BP from a detailed environmental impact analysis.

I simply cannot imagine why the Obama regime would authorize a measure such as that.
[snark off]

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-05 17:08|| 2010-05-05 17:08|| Front Page Top

#6 Goldman Sachs too.

Posted by DMFD 2010-05-05 18:13|| 2010-05-05 18:13|| Front Page Top

#7 Off-Shore drilling is OK for BP. T. Boone Pickens and all of you other wildcatters.....~~cut your own deal with~~ please see President Obama.

Posted by Besoeker 2010-05-05 19:25|| 2010-05-05 19:25|| Front Page Top

#8 * ION BHARAT RAKSHAK/TOPIX > EUROPE"S WEB OF DEBT [NYT COlor Graphic]; + GREECE'S DEBT WOES TEST EU UNITY [Bonds of Union].

and

* WAFF > [der Speigel] GREEKS STRUGGLE WID "SICK MAN" STATUS + HUGE NATIONAL DEBTS COULD PUSH EURO ZONE INTO BANKRUPTCY [Also read, BREAK-UP].

Personally, and in conjunction wid GREECE's monetary woes, I'm viewing the GULF OF MEXICO = MAHICO spill as a PRE-2012 [Iran, Islamist-MilTerr Nuclearization = Nuclear Terror], PRE-APOPHIS [1960's = 1980's MTV RAP "Thingys that make the MOON go Boom"] TEST FOR DESIRED OWG-NWO.

AND, MOST IMPORTANTLY, NEWS > MADONNA looks utterly fantastic in her new Celeb photos.

Posted by JosephMendiola 2010-05-05 22:30|| 2010-05-05 22:30|| Front Page Top

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