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edited September 2010 in A Moving Train
are you fucking kidding me??????

http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/09/02/re ... lf/?hpt=T2
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    doesn't say if any oil is leaking....of course when deepwater horizon exploded there was no spill initially, and then weeks later it was the biggest spill in history...can't wait to see how this shakes out...
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  • NastasjaNastasja Posts: 9,668
    2010...watch it go to fire :?
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!!


    :twisted: :twisted:

    2 explosions in 5 months in the same region.... this deepwater drilling is no longer a safe practice and should be banned. and if i were in congress i would sponsor the damn bill to ban it...
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  • NastasjaNastasja Posts: 9,668
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    DRILL BABY DRILL!!!!!


    :twisted: :twisted:

    2 explosions in 5 months in the same region.... this deepwater drilling is no longer a safe practice and should be banned. and if i were in congress i would sponsor the damn bill to ban it...

    or people are getting over-sensitive to the news, or people tend to mess up even more with the last GOM disaster in mind... whatever... I hope things change SOON. We're messing up our planet
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  • josevolutionjosevolution Posts: 30,250
    Really this is a fucking shame this company should just be banned from our shores period ...
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  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    josevolution wrote:
    Really this is a fucking shame this company should just be banned from our shores period ...


    What company is that?
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    is it a BP rig? i have not seen any other info than just the general news story of:

    13 workers are safe.
    investigating possible leak.

    no company name that i can find...
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  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    it amazes me that people still buy gas at BP...not that the other gas stations arent ass holes too.but you know...sometimes we need to use a car and put gas in it...i just dont understand why, when there are ususally multiple gas stations in a general area, you would go to BP over Sunoco or Mobile or whatever else is nearby, at this current point in time with all that is going on....and their prices are usually higher!!! Some people really have absolutely no idea what is going on in the world that they are not directly living in. Glad i was never a fan of seafood...cuz i wouldnt try a bite of any of it for lots of money, knowing it came from our waters/oil infested waters....its sick, sick sick


    Im assuming its the BP rig they are talking about...it was just recapped recently....tho im sure there are others out there leaking that they arent telling us about or are just playing the blind eye themselves...

    we need a better solution...order the entire country to get a horse/1 car per family, free bikes and public transport...the whole country will not change unless it is mandated
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  • CosmoCosmo Posts: 12,225
    twisted thoughts wrote:
    it amazes me that people still buy gas at BP...not that the other gas stations arent ass holes too.but you know...sometimes we need to use a car and put gas in it...i just dont understand why, when there are ususally multiple gas stations in a general area, you would go to BP over Sunoco or Mobile or whatever else is nearby, at this current point in time with all that is going on....and their prices are usually higher!!! Some people really have absolutely no idea what is going on in the world that they are not directly living in. Glad i was never a fan of seafood...cuz i wouldnt try a bite of any of it for lots of money, knowing it came from our waters/oil infested waters....its sick, sick sick


    Im assuming its the BP rig they are talking about...it was just recapped recently....tho im sure there are others out there leaking that they arent telling us about or are just playing the blind eye themselves...

    we need a better solution...order the entire country to get a horse/1 car per family, free bikes and public transport...the whole country will not change unless it is mandated
    ...
    The thing is... those rigs may represent more than one oil company.
    I had a roughneck neighbor that used to work the oil islands off the coast of Long Beach. The company that paid him was called 'THUMS'... which stood for Texaco, Humble, Union, Mobil, Standard.
    I'm not sure if this is the same thing with the Deep Water Horizon rig in the Gulf. BP was responsible because they were the ones doing the drilling at the time of the explosion/oil gusher. But, they may be getting paid by Atlantic Richfield, Chevron or Shell. So, even if you do avoid BP filling stations... they (BP) may stilll be getting paid on the money-go-round.
    The whole oil industry is as murky as the crude.
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  • Boxes&BooksBoxes&Books USA Posts: 2,672
    White House Briefing "The oil rig off the Louisiana coast that reported a fire is “not a deepwater facility” and “was not in active production,” Gibbs said.


    keep your fingers crossed. :?
  • g under pg under p Surfing The far side of THE Sombrero Galaxy Posts: 18,200
    Here in South Florida it seems BP is doing very well, they bought all of the Citgo gas stations down here. Yes, all of them I can't find a Citgo gas station anywhere.

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  • Brock SamsonBrock Samson Posts: 328
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    doesn't say if any oil is leaking....of course when deepwater horizon exploded there was no spill initially, and then weeks later it was the biggest spill in history...can't wait to see how this shakes out...

    not quite the biggest spill in history. (the image is too big, so you'll have to clicky the link.)

    http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4006/4700592764_e78faef3f9_o.png
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  • twisted thoughtstwisted thoughts Posts: 4,377
    update from http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion:
    By ALAN SAYRE, Associated Press Writer Alan Sayre, Associated Press Writer – 7 mins ago

    NEW ORLEANS, La. – A mile-long oil sheen spread Thursday from an offshore petroleum platform burning in the Gulf of Mexico off Lousiana, west of the site of BP's massive spill.

    Coast Guard Petty Officer Bill Coklough said the sheen, about 100 feet wide, was spotted near the platform owned by Houston-based Mariner Energy Inc.

    He said Mariner had deployed three firefighting vessels to the site and one already was in place fighting the blaze.

    The Coast Guard says no one was killed in the explosion and fire, which was reported by a commercial helicopter flying over the site around 9 a.m. CDT. All 13 people aboard the rig were rescued as they floated in the nearby water in survival outfits called gumby suits.

    The platform is in about 340 feet of water and about 100 miles south of Vermilion Bay on the central Louisiana coast. It's location is considered shallow water, much less than the approximately 5,000 feet where BP's well spewed oil and gas for three months after an April rig explosion.

    All 13 people aboard the rig were found floating in the water, sticking close together, Coast Guard spokesman Chief Petty Officer John Edwards said.

    "These guys had the presence of mind, used their training to get into those gumby suits before they entered the water. It speaks volumes to safety training and the importance of it because beyond getting off the rig there's all the hazards of the water such as hypothermia and things of that nature," Edwards said.

    All were being flown to a hospital in Houma to be checked over. Coast Guard Cmdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau said one person was injured, but the platform's owner, Houston-based Mariner Energy, Inc., said there were no injuries.

    "Mariner has notified and is working with regulatory authorities in response to this incident. The cause is not known, and an investigation will be undertaken," the company said in a statement. It said the platform was located on Vermilion Block 380, approximately 100 miles off the Louisiana coast.

    The platform is a fixed petroleum platform that was in production at the time of the fire, according to a homeland security operational update obtained by The Associated Press.

    The update said the platform was producing about 58,800 gallons of oil and 900,000 cubic feet of gas per day. The platform can store 4,200 gallons of oil.

    Seven Coast Guard helicopters, two airplanes and three cutters were dispatched to the scene from New Orleans, Houston and Mobile, Ala., Ben-Iesau said. She said authorities do not know whether oil was leaking from the site.

    White House press secretary Robert Gibbs said President Barack Obama was in a national security meeting and did not know whether Obama had been informed of the explosion.

    "We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water," Gibbs said.

    Mariner Energy focuses on oil and gas exploration and production in the Gulf of Mexico. In April, Apache Corp., another independent petroleum company, announced plans to buy Mariner in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $3.9 billion, including the assumption of about $1.2 billion of Mariner's debt. That deal is pending.

    Apache spokesman Bob Dye said the platform is in shallow water. Responding to any oil spill in shallow water would be much easier than in deep water, where crews depend on remote-operated vehicles access equipment on the sea floor. Mariner said in initial flyover for no hydrocarbon spill.

    A company report said the well was drilled in the third quarter of 2008.

    The platform is about 200 miles west of BP's blown-out well. On Friday, BP was expected to begin the process of removing the cap and failed blowout preventer, another step toward completion of a relief well that would put a finals eal on the well. The BP-leased rig Deepwater Horizon exploded April 20, killing 11 people and setting off a three-month leak that totaled 206 million gallons of oil .
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    so there is oil spewing into the gulf again?? mother f@cker!

    :x :x :x :x

    i told you the initial reports weren't going to say anything about any spill...
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  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    Hey Judge Martin Feldman- President Obama only ask for six months and we didn’t even make it to six months. Anyone else feel like apologizing to this oil companies?
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    puremagic wrote:
    Hey Judge Martin Feldman- President Obama only ask for six months and we didn’t even make it to six months. Anyone else feel like apologizing to this oil companies?
    i do not understand your post. what does obama have to do with this and why should anyone apologize to "this oil companies"? :?
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  • yahamitayahamita Posts: 1,514
    This is starting to sound like this is on purpose.
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  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    puremagic wrote:
    Hey Judge Martin Feldman- President Obama only ask for six months and we didn’t even make it to six months. Anyone else feel like apologizing to this oil companies?
    i do not understand your post. what does obama have to do with this and why should anyone apologize to "this oil companies"? :?

    Obama Offshore Drilling Moratorium OVERTURNED By Judge

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/2 ... 21229.html
    First Posted: 06-22-10 02:01 PM | Updated: 06-22-10 05:35 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an immediate danger, too.

    The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
    ……

    You don’t remember good ole Rep. Senator Joe Barton of TX.
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  • puremagicpuremagic Posts: 1,907
    yahamita wrote:
    This is starting to sound like this is on purpose.


    If it was done on purpose, then blame the oil companies for being greeding in order to beat the next round of the Justice Department's appeals to reinstate the moratorium.
    SIN EATERS--We take the moral excrement we find in this equation and we bury it down deep inside of us so that the rest of our case can stay pure. That is the job. We are morally indefensible and absolutely necessary.
  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    puremagic wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    puremagic wrote:
    Hey Judge Martin Feldman- President Obama only ask for six months and we didn’t even make it to six months. Anyone else feel like apologizing to this oil companies?
    i do not understand your post. what does obama have to do with this and why should anyone apologize to "this oil companies"? :?

    Obama Offshore Drilling Moratorium OVERTURNED By Judge

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/2 ... 21229.html
    First Posted: 06-22-10 02:01 PM | Updated: 06-22-10 05:35 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an immediate danger, too.

    The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
    ……

    You don’t remember good ole Rep. Senator Joe Barton of TX.
    i still do not understand your point....obama issued a moratorioum on DEEPWATER drilling, and it got overturned. this was in " shallow water" so it is not affected by the moratorioum and it had a permit before the moratorium...so why apologize to the oil companies if there was a moratoratorium if a second one exploded less than 140 days after the first one?? :? :? :?
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  • gimmesometruth27gimmesometruth27 St. Fuckin Louis Posts: 23,303
    now they are saying no signs of a spill....so which is it???

    http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_gulf_rig_explosion
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  • haffajappahaffajappa British Columbia Posts: 5,955
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    puremagic wrote:
    gimmesometruth27 wrote:
    i do not understand your post. what does obama have to do with this and why should anyone apologize to "this oil companies"? :?

    Obama Offshore Drilling Moratorium OVERTURNED By Judge

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/06/2 ... 21229.html
    First Posted: 06-22-10 02:01 PM | Updated: 06-22-10 05:35 PM

    NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- A federal judge struck down the Obama administration's six-month ban on deepwater oil drilling in the Gulf of Mexico as rash and heavy-handed Tuesday, saying the government simply assumed that because one rig exploded, the others pose an immediate danger, too.

    The White House promised an immediate appeal. The Interior Department had imposed the moratorium last month in the wake of the Deepwater Horizon disaster, halting approval of any new permits for deepwater projects and suspending drilling on 33 exploratory wells.
    ……

    You don’t remember good ole Rep. Senator Joe Barton of TX.
    i still do not understand your point....obama issued a moratorioum on DEEPWATER drilling, and it got overturned. this was in " shallow water" so it is not affected by the moratorioum and it had a permit before the moratorium...so why apologize to the oil companies if there was a moratoratorium if a second one exploded less than 140 days after the first one?? :? :? :?
    I think he was being facetious...
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  • unsungunsung I stopped by on March 7 2024. First time in many years, had to update payment info. Hope all is well. Politicians suck. Bye. Posts: 9,487
    g under p wrote:
    Here in South Florida it seems BP is doing very well, they bought all of the Citgo gas stations down here. Yes, all of them I can't find a Citgo gas station anywhere.

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    I'd shop at BP over Citgo any day.
  • davidtriosdavidtrios Posts: 9,732
    why would you shop at BP over Citgo- doesn't it make sense to you to boycott BP?
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