Sounds like Bobby is asking for more of that stimulus money he doesn’t want or need that he takes credit for getting——huh?

Last time I checked, my impression was that Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama and north Florida were the habitat of millions of Sarah Palin enthusiasts who’ve got no time for “tree huggers”, are proud of their gas guzzling pickups and love to get together and chant “drill baby drill”. I know I’m not describing the entire population of that region, but I think I have accurately described the majority. For that majority, all I have to say is, this disaster couldn’t have happened to a nicer bunch of people. I do feel sorry though for all the poor fish, birds, sea turtles and sea mammals whose lives are being lost and whose habitat is being destroyed.

Although the spill, in and of itself, is devastating – the disaster is yet unfolding – I’m left with a hallow feeling in my gut. Here’s what I’ve been grappling with: suppose the rig fire, the death of the employees, the spill itself had never occurred. Rewind, say, eight months and consider the rig stationed out there in the gulf of Mexico operating in a business as usual way, perhaps at capacity, perhaps at eighty percent…and now zoom out, and look at all the rigs in the Gulf.

Suppose that each of these rigs are able to extract 100,000 barrels a week.  If there are 10 rigs capable of this type of production, that roughly translates to one million barrels weekly.  Now understand that this proposition is entirely hypothetical – none of it based on any actual production data – but it’s really beside the point. 

And my point is this:  the environmental disaster that we’re currently struggling with is finally visible in a way that we’re able to understand.  It is by no means any less of a disaster to the environment than the day in / day out, business-as-usual damage that oil refining and fossil fuel consumption exact on our world on any given day.  Yes, this disaster will have lasting impact across the Gulf, perhaps even the Eastern seaboard.  Yes, lives will be impacted, livelihoods lost, families displaced as fisheries are decimated by the sludge.

If we are to awaken from our addiction to oil and fossil fuel consumption, I feel it’s imperative to see this terrible event as something that is happening every day; it’s just that this time, instead of the pollutants being concentrated in one region, we typically inflate the biosphere with these poisons – in such a way that it’s easy to just look the other way instead of wondering where those 12 gallons of gas have gone to at the end of the week.  Here, finally, is a chance to see a condensed example of something (typically) so very invisible.  Here, as the world looks on and wonders aloud how this is going to change the way we vacation, is a chance to see clearly the future that awaits us if we continue forward unimpeded as we increase our consumption, and keep our blinders securely fastened.  It may be a wake up call, but I doubt it.  More likely, this ecological tragedy the first of hundreds of disasters that await us; a primary salvo among countless future catastrophes that will fall on an unwitting audience rather like the first failing vein experienced by a novice junky…there’s always another way to get a fix, dance with the devil, live in the fast lane. Can we, as a collective humanity, garner the strength to repair our fragile world? Or will we, like so many failed societies past, fall victim to our own greed, oblivious to the glaring writing on the wall?

http://www.ted.com/talks/jared_diamond_on_why_societies_collapse.html

Main energy will have to be nuclear, then wind and solar; electric and hydrogen are both a waste of money and corn fuel burns up too fast. 

It is time to move on.  There should be no more talk about continuing with oil at all.  Just how soon can nuclear be safely installed, because all waste can be disposed of on the moon or some other planet, and the USA must produce wind mills and solar panels.  Everything will have to change and we must be about it.

hello. this is devastating to people, ecology, and this industry. an acoustic switch may or may not have worked with this size of gas explosion. still the parent company did slide under the radar. not a corporate terrorist attack, but a shareholders’ attack. 3 days ago this well should have been permanently sealed with remote subs planting bombs. but the shareholders would lose all that investment. it is sad; how initially we were told the gusher was 42k barrels a day: and it is now going to destroy the New Orleans and Mississippi oceanic populations- after some misguided public relations propagandist was allowed to be misquoted at 1-5 thousand barrels/day. the whole southeast is being inundated from high winds with all the chemical dispersant they are polluting both the water, and now also the air with. beads and globules of tar is what they expect to accomplish. crap. nobody will swim in it. no fish will live in it. and the politicians want to be sure if they mobilize every breathing available worker to scrub everything with blue Dawn detergent, that they will be compensated. meanwhile, for another couple of months, it will just keep flowing- and why wouldn’t they lie and say it is not? they already did lie a few days ago, and said it wasn’t gushing. now a magical cone is going to entrap the entire gusher without oil seeping out beneath it in 5000 feet of water. if this complete destruction of the Gulf of Mexico does not immediately usher in electric and hydrogen vehicles- we are doomed.

By McTN, May 2 at 5:44 pm

Correct and that is why the ‘terrorist bid laden’ designate is used
to direct attention from those crooks on wall street who are the
real terrorists on constant attack of this country. Otherwise even
the MSM would not be able to help cover those financial
terrorists from the people and this country just might have
physically gone after them to give them their well earned bath of
tar and feathers. But still, the plan is working well enough for
them to steal more money.

The Future Bend     empirePie  

Bush Obammer, Bush Obammer, brand me for my end
con me, mark me, make me, chill me;
spill me with the wash on toxic shores.

Find a friendly gavel for the truth speak of the dusk.

Let the shadow masters throw the dice,
the color coded future it ain’t nice.

Bush Obammer, Bush Osammer, oil me to the end.
Does your future call?

Is there a need to bend?

Leaked report: Government fears Deepwater Horizon well could become unchecked gusher.
*****

A confidential government report on the unfolding spill disaster in the Gulf makes clear the Coast Guard now fears the well could become an unchecked gusher shooting millions of gallons of oil per day into the Gulf.

“The following is not public,” reads the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Emergency Response document dated April 28.
*****

Spill-Baby-Spill, Leakers scramble for damage control.

FULL STORY:
http://blog.al.com/live/2010/04/deepwater_horizon_secret_memo.html

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

WikiLeaks—Collateral Murder
http://wikileaks.org/

Corporate irresponsibility has been “threatening our way of life” and everybody elses’s for lo! these many decades.  How long has it been since anybody—from ceo down to stockholder—has walked away from a profit because “the mine ceiling had inadequate support” or “the run-off polluted the water supply” or “children got sick and died because their fathers couldn’t make enough money to feed them” or—you name any human disaster.  Behind it will always stand the brave figure of some “titan of industry” who has a great reputation on Wall Street and in the halls of Congress.

The Corporate State and in particular the oil companies have been threatening this much-lauded way of life for a long time and they are the biggest force in putting out disinformation on climate change which in turn is the biggest threat the human species has ever faced: on par with a nuclear holocaust.

It’s way too late for this observation, Gov Jindahl. Progressives have been naming the global corporatocracy as terrorists for a long time;the profit hunters have done more damage to our economy, govt, and way of life than bin Laden could ever dream of doing. What have you done to prevent it? Have you insisted on regulations and safeguards to protect our country, opposed the kind of lobbying that buys the loyalty of elected officials and overrides democratic principles?

Too little, too late.

Since we have remotes for everything in our house
why wasn’t there a remote for cutting off the oil
when the rig caught on fire?  The major crime is
that a remote control device exists but wasn’t
installed because of COST.  This according to
911truthdotorg’s comments preceeding mine.  If this
is true some heads should roll somewhere.

Word is that if remnants of the valve, from which crude is currently bubbling forth, becomes compromised, or completely dislodged; the enormity of pressure behind the valve could manifest itself as an uncontrollable gusher at over a million gallons per day.

Ask Bobby-bo-Jangles how many other ‘Spill-Baby-Spill’ platforms exist out there, lack the acoustic-switch, as a result of profits being more important than safe-guarding the habitat which supports us all.

Peace, Best Wishes and Hope

WikiLeaks—Collateral Murder
http://wikileaks.org/

This is what happens when lobbyists control the government, when they prevent the use of safe guards by bribing congress.

When the plutocrats are in control of the government then your life and health and freedoms are at risk.

Whether it’s Henry Waxman sneaking an amendment into financial reform legislation to all the FTC to control vitamins, or the USDA allowing chicken feces to be fed to cattle, it’s just the same as the oil spill.

Let the public be dammed as long as we make some money and no one is the wiser we don’t care.

And when there’s a disaster, we’ll say we’re sorry, and stare at our shoes, and pay a palliative fine or two.

But maybe next time millions of lives will be on the line, what then?

No amount of money can make it better.

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As each day or hour and minute that goes by where NOTHING
gets done, it is now beginning to dawn on people that what the
whole corporate world is doing is nothing but that what little w
declared as being a terrorist attack, no matter how much big bp
tries to insert the ‘accident’ factor because they do know that
this will grow to so big of a disaster that the pressure to hold
accountable those responsible is not lost, not just on bp, but
the whole corporate world because it would mean regulation,
oversight, accountability and transparency, real open
transparency.

To me, it would hopefully and rightly rein in and control that
criminal bribery called lobbying so that those that do pay for
favors and influence and those who take those bribes will be
investigated, indicted, prosecuted and punished and not with
just hard time but with the confiscation of all wealth as their
crimes should dictate the forfeiture of their ill gotten gains.

THIS IS A CORPORATE TERRORIST ATTACK! and you, Governor
Bobby Jindal, are correct in saying or intimating that it is.

Drill Baby Drill!!

Leaking Oil Well Lacked Safeguard Device

“By 2003, U.S. regulators decided remote-controlled safeguards needed more study. A report commissioned by the Minerals Management Service said “acoustic
systems are not recommended because they tend to be very costly.”

The oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn’t have a remote-control shut-off switch used in two other major oil-producing nations as last-resort protection against underwater spills.

The lack of the device, called an acoustic switch, could amplify concerns over the environmental impact of offshore drilling after the explosion and sinking of the Deepwater Horizon rig last week.

Another gift from the bush crime family who didn’t enforce ANY regulations for the oil industry, or anywhere else for the matter.

The bush crime family - the gift that keeps on giving.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html