Hey, what was all that stuff about how great the record of the offshore oil drilling has been?

[zbdent]

[ShortnFiery]

1. It only takes ONE BIG ACCIDENT to shoot that all to hell.

:(

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4. Delete - wrong spot.

[stray cat]

2. We really need to boycott oil, coal and nuclear power and anything that used or uses it!

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3. So how did you post this? n/t

[FBaggins]

6. Lol... I thought the same thing

Must have the hamster wheel conected up to a UPS.

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7. And a wooden computer running a hemp based processor?

I mean we should REDUCE consumption of natural resources, and recycle when possible but certain things like plastics require oil. That is what makes the rate we are burning it even more stupid. There are lots of ways to produce energy and oil is only one of them but oil has many non-energy uses.

[FBaggins]

8. There was a post yesterday

from someone bragging that he unplugs everything in the house when he isn't using it.

I thought "maybe we need some light switch training" :)

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5. Technical question

so why couldn't the qovt require that valves be installed on the ocean floor. The valves would close if they receive an alarm signal from platform or loses all signal (because platform is on fire and/or sinking)

I mean it is leaking 8,000 gallons an hour. Why not design these so they cut off the flow in an emergency at the source.

There are shutoff valves on the oil platform the problem is in an explosion they can be damaged and when the whole rig sinks it kinda doesn't do any good. Oil is flowing out of the now uncapped pipes that connect the platform to ocean floor.

[FSogol]

9. That would probably cost money. If there were regulations, gas might go up to $3.00 per gallon

By installing safety equipment, Exxon might only make tens of billions instead of hundreds of billions.

:sarcasm: