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US bans offshore drilling as Deepwater Horizon slick hits land

tell it to noaa

He speculated. It is the oil company's responsibility to be prepared for disasters like this. Not the government job to babysit them.
 
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nah, speculate's not the best word, he's too expert

estimate, might be more like it

either way, even 30% is better than nothing

hello

NOT A BOOM ON HAND!

GOTTA BUY ONE!

ONE!

THEN BORROW FROM BRAZIL!

humiliating
 
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Wrong. Burning would have only destroyed 30% at the most. This is light crude on rough seawater, not gasoline.
It's funny how the free market people scream for government to bail them out when things get out of hand.

They tried to burn it but, the wind and waves made it almost impossible.

Great post!
 
they still only have one boom

they're still trying to borrow booms
 
I watched a little Hannity last night and could not believe my ears. He was actually blaming Obama for the mess.




I did too. He did no such thing. He compared the non-response of the Obama administration and the failure to enact the federal fire boom plan as hypocritical of the media compared to the way they slaughtered Bush on Katrina.



Which is absolutley true... You all blamed Bush for a failed federal response to a local problem, yet you are all silent on Obama's failure of a federal problem to an interstate and national coastline problem.


I'm not a big fan of Hannity, however he was spot on here.
 
Wrong. Burning would have only destroyed 30% at the most. This is light crude on rough seawater, not gasoline.
It's funny how the free market people scream for government to bail them out when things get out of hand.




wait 30% less oil to destroy the gulf coast? This is a bad thing how?



As a free market libertarian, I am all for the Federal government stepping in to protect our ecosystem from an impending disaster...



Guess, I'm more an environmentalist than most left wingers. :shrug:
 
Off shore drilling will always be "on the table" because that is the only way Obama can garner bipartisan support for cap and trade.
 
He speculated. It is the oil company's responsibility to be prepared for disasters like this. Not the government job to babysit them.





Those living in the coastal reagions of this spill applaud your hypocrisy.
 
Didn't the obama administration just authorize off shore drilling though?

To my understanding the Obama Administration authorized off shore drilling for Virginia while simultaneously stopping or preventing some kind of drilling elsewhere I believe. Essentially a nice switcharoo where he could hopefully get some republicans happy with him by pointing to one thing, the environmentalists happy with the other, and really have a net neutral affect. I didn't look into the matter extremely closely though so by no means take my word as gospel truth.

IF this is legitimately a TEMPORARY hold, then I'm fine with it. My only issue is that often times with the government these temporary things because indefinitely temporary type things. Yes, by all means perform some research to be sure that this freak unusual accident does not happen again. However please don't let this be like the issues with nuclear power where something bad happens and a grave over reaction is made on something that could've provided so much benefit in the long term.
 
If they didn't want this extreme measure to be taken against offshore drilling then all the companies involved should have made DIRE and ENDLESS efforts to make it more clean and safe.

But since they didn't give a crap - now they're being served what they never wanted.
 
As a side note, I live in Biloxi, MS. We have been watching and dreading the arrival of the oil to our beach for a few days now. I must say that MEMA (Mississippi Emergency Management Agency) has staging grounds all over the area and several hundred volunteers in place to assist with the cleanup. While this is a disaster and could be much larger than the Exxon Valdez, BP was able to cap one of the leaks today, which is somewhat good news.

I don't think most Americans truly understand the impact this will have on the locals all along the Gulf Coast. All commercial fishing has been halted, which is devastating to those who make their living by way of the fishing industry. This is also the beginning of our tourist season down here and this will affect the hotels and casinos as well as other recreational businesses.

Should the oil spill make it to the Florida Keys, this could wipe out the coral and other sea life living there. So both the environmental and economic ramifications of this mess are going to be felt for a very, very long time.
 
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because they're the ones who killed cap and trade, silly
 
US bans offshore drilling as Deepwater Horizon slick hits land - Times Online



I strongly support off-shore drilling, but I think this is a good idea. If we are going to do it, we should do it as safely as possible.

Well a couple planes got flown into some buildings so now I guess we have to ban commercial airliners :roll:

Yeah and about the spill...they're lowering a dome onto the leak....kinda fast to pour a dome capable of performing at that depth, don't you think? They know the plan will work because, and here's the important part....they've don this many times before with other wrecks of the same type.

Nothing new here folks...oh except that President Obama needed to drum up support for banning off-shore drilling.
 
They know the plan will work because, and here's the important part....they've don this many times before with other wrecks of the same type.
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They don't have a clue if it will work or not. Where do you get your information?

(CNN) -- A four-story oil-containment dome is near the 5,000-foot-deep Gulf of Mexico seafloor, and BP workers are using remote-controlled craft to start placing it over a gushing wellhead, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The move to try to cap oil leaking from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig started early Friday. This technique has never been tried at such a depth, and there are no guarantees it will work, said BP, which holds the license for the well.

"It's a technology first," BP CEO Tony Hayward told CNN's David Mattingly. "It works in [300] to 400 feet of water. But the pressures and temperatures are very different, so we cannot be confident that it will work."
 
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They don't have a clue if it will work or not. Where do you get your information?

(CNN) -- A four-story oil-containment dome is near the 5,000-foot-deep Gulf of Mexico seafloor, and BP workers are using remote-controlled craft to start placing it over a gushing wellhead, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The move to try to cap oil leaking from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig started early Friday. This technique has never been tried at such a depth, and there are no guarantees it will work, said BP, which holds the license for the well.

"It's a technology first," BP CEO Tony Hayward told CNN's David Mattingly. "It works in [300] to 400 feet of water. But the pressures and temperatures are very different, so we cannot be confident that it will work."

Right, it's never been used at that depth, but it has been used many times before because this by far not the first blow-out they've dealt with. That was my claim and you just backed it up for me :2wave:
 
There have been seven major oil well disasters in the last 33 years. That works out to less than one every five years (this does not include incidents of oil spills from tankers/ships). Not so "freak" after all.

But, when you compare that to the hundreds of thousands of wells that didn't blow out in the past 33 years, those are freak accidents.

Besides, you have to ask yourself how those blowouts happened. I'm still not convinced that the Horizon blowout was an accident.
 
They don't have a clue if it will work or not. Where do you get your information?

(CNN) -- A four-story oil-containment dome is near the 5,000-foot-deep Gulf of Mexico seafloor, and BP workers are using remote-controlled craft to start placing it over a gushing wellhead, according to the U.S. Coast Guard.

The move to try to cap oil leaking from the sunken Deepwater Horizon rig started early Friday. This technique has never been tried at such a depth, and there are no guarantees it will work, said BP, which holds the license for the well.

"It's a technology first," BP CEO Tony Hayward told CNN's David Mattingly. "It works in [300] to 400 feet of water. But the pressures and temperatures are very different, so we cannot be confident that it will work."

And, low-n-behold, the damned thing worked. Gee-willikers!...:rofl
 
But, when you compare that to the hundreds of thousands of wells that didn't blow out in the past 33 years, those are freak accidents.

One blowout every 4.75 years? You may want to believe such incidents are as rare as hen's teeth, but the facts say something different.

Besides, you have to ask yourself how those blowouts happened.

No, I don't. Regardless of how they happened, they still happened.

I'm still not convinced that the Horizon blowout was an accident.

Oh boy, here we go. Get out your tin foil hats, gang! :rofl
 
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