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Gulf Methane Levels 1 Million Times Above Normal Are Depleting Oxygen And Creating Marine Dead Zones
Reuters is so not getting the administration's latest round of taxpayer bail out funding when mainstream media comes knocking on Obama's door looking for handouts. The media company has shockingly decided to release some of the truth about the biosystematic genocide currently happening in the Gulf: "As much as 1 million times the normal level of methane gas has been found in some regions near the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, enough to potentially deplete oxygen and create a dead zone, U.S. scientists said on Tuesday. Texas A&M University oceanography professor John Kessler, just back from a 10-day research expedition near the BP Plc oil spill in the gulf, says methane gas levels in some areas are "astonishingly high." Luckily, America is gradually realizing that the entire food chain in the southeast is about to be turned around on its head, leading to a massive and unprecedented ecological disaster, which will certainly wipe out thousands of species and result in not only a surge in unemployment (that's a given) but outright loss of life (at statistically significant levels), and the anger is mounting. Perhaps the one good thing to come out of the worst ecological disaster in world history will be the sudden, and jarring awakening from the generational slumber for most of America, and a long overdue overhaul of a broken political and economic system.
More from Reuters:
Kessler's crew took measurements of both surface and deep water within a 5-mile (8 kilometer) radius of BP's broken wellhead.
"There is an incredible amount of methane in there," Kessler told reporters in a telephone briefing.
In some areas, the crew of 12 scientists found concentrations that were 100,000 times higher than normal.
"We saw them approach a million times above background concentrations" in some areas, Kessler said.
The scientists were looking for signs that the methane gas had depleted levels of oxygen dissolved in the water needed to sustain marine life.
"At some locations, we saw depletions of up to 30 percent of oxygen based on its natural concentration in the waters. At other places, we saw no depletion of oxygen in the waters. We need to determine why that is," he told the briefing.
Methane occurs naturally in sea water, but high concentrations can encourage the growth of microbes that gobble up oxygen needed by marine life.
Kessler said oxygen depletions have not reached a critical level yet, but the oil is still spilling into the Gulf, now at a rate of as much as 60,000 barrels a day, according to U.S. government estimates.
"What is it going to look like two months down the road, six months down the road, two years down the road?" he asked.
No commentary necessary, suffice it to say we sincerely urge Whitney Tilson to hedge his BP holdings with at least a few puts.
h/t John
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Gas masks, Bitchez!
Silly peon. BP's just testing their new seawater-based delivery system. Be ready to pay BP each time you visit the ocean - they're coming out with their own counterpart to the DMCA to make sure you pay or go to debtor's prison.
Power boats and Jet skis don't need fuel tanks anymore !
Much like water wells in PA are becoming combined water/gas wells. All you need is an water/oil/gas separator and a single well can heat your house and provide you with drinking water (after running through 20 or so reverse-osmosis stages). All for less cost than a B2 stealth bomber!
And Wyoming, Texas, and Colorado--all shown in Gasland on HBO in which GG was kind enough to post a picture from on a previous thread.
However, the gas is not the real problem, Max. It's the 565+ fracking chemicals like benzene and other carcinogens that are getting in the water supply as well.
A relative of mine is a groundwater geologist living in CO, so I have some idea of what you speak.
I wouldn't say the gas is not the real problem, I would say it's not the only problem. It is quite possible to have drinking water (from a well) that is contaminated with the fracking chemicals but not with gas. That's a big problem, requiring you to truck in water or possibly get an expensive filtering system. But it's also possible to have basically clean water that's contaminated with enough gas to be flammable, and that's a serious problem too - you can't continue to use that water without some safe way to remove the gas. Either one can be fatal to your well, and of course you may win the lottery and get both at once.
Gasland appears to be a great documentary, and I hope it will get an audience.
Here's a link to chemicals in Colorado found in fracking. I agree that gas is a very serious problem..espcially if you are bathing in it and drinking it every day. http://www.ewg.org/reports/injection
It is on HBO on demand all month if you know someone who gets it. It is also open at 2 NYC theaters and being shown throughout the Marcellus Shales in select towns.
A relative of mine is a groundwater geologist living in CO
ask him about shale water. please, get back to me. i couldn't find a gd groundwater geologist that knew much about this nasty sulfur shit black water. they all lie and say it can be filtered. lies and more lies. colorado has huge shale reserves of everything apparently, water, gas fucking fracking.
i trucked in water, i filtered, expensive analysis. guess good thing i got rid of the third world i called home, in the rah rah realty days of '06. living without water, adapted. guess what, i hate to shower.
Marcellus Shales ruined my fucking life.
are you getting prude? Where are dem titties
peak titties.
Or for a few facts with your propaganda:
http://images.magnetmail.net/images/clients/IPAA_comm/attach/GasLandDebu...
I live on the border of NY/PA and know people within 15 miles of here that can light their water on fire....in the last 6 months they started to smell gas in their bathwater, are getting sick, and can't sell their property now because they hit the front page of the newspaper. Gee, what a little coincidence that Chesapeake drilled a half mile from their house and claims it was a pre-existing condition since it wasn't within 1/4 of a mile of the fracking.
Nice little gas co propaganda site you got there. I suggest you buy some property in PA in the areas where they are drilling the most and have a nice short life.
it's really a shame howard cuz that area would be a lovely place to have a farm.
FYI : www.biosandfilter.org
get some jersey greensand and/or fuller's earth to use.
not perfect, but better than dead...
Interesting gasmiinder, but ultimately just a whole lot of circumlocution and some obfuscation; no 'debunking' really worth mentioning going on at that link. eg. I've got some mere 'household' chemicals for ya to taste, but you'll be wanting to have your will all sorted before imbibing even a millilitre of some of 'em.
I'll be saving that one for reference though, so thanks.
Regards
TD: This is the 2nd thread today that originated from a link I had earlier posted. I'm sick of doing all the heavy lifting for you, MackDaddy. Keep it up and I'm gonna insist you rename the site TurdHedge!
You'll be pleased to know that www.turdhedge.com remains available for sale
And...its much better than ZeroTurd, which sounds rather like a colorectal issue.
Talk about anal-retentive!
Didn't I hear something about John Wayne having had a zeroturd problem?
I'll bet Mr. Turd knows a thing or two about methane gas, baby.
For only three letters, that's a pretty damn big word right there.
um, old news, several years old. Dead zone in the gulf has been there for years.
and, could we please please invest in some new goddamn servers? keep the economy going and pick up some new blades!
I`ll match you dollar for dollar on your ZH donation. Serious.
Just donated $25. Not much but time to pay up, FB
Please back that request up with a donation. Thank you.
http://www.zerohedge.com/content/donate-zero-hedge
Come in Teaser your time is up.
ZH Admin - other payment methods? Paypal not acceptable this far south of the border.
S L I D E
........got to be word of the day.
VOTE ±
I'm long unemployed, huge underwater mortgage, etc etc blah blah blah, but I'll chip in a donation if there is some way to pay by other than the execrable PayPal. Google payments?
Donation done. Not much but something. Rock on!
What's another gigantic new dead zone among friends, anyway?
GOM dead zone, from 2008:
http://serc.carleton.edu/microbelife/topics/deadzone/
...and, from the "Science Museum of Minnesota"
here is the official Gulf of Mexico Dead Zone website,
http://www.smm.org/deadzone/
I really wish I had saved or cached the link because I can no longer find an AP story discussing BP and hurricanes. In it some fool was saying that the good news about a hurricane would be that it would stir up the waters and dilute the oil and gas as well as mix oxygen into the water column.
I swear to God this was what it said. Never again will I read such amazing spin and not cache the link. Never.
This?
http://www.property-casualty.com/News/2010/6/Pages/Beneficial-Harmful-Hu...
@-Michelle-
I don't know why you waited until 3 weeks and 3 days ago to come into our lives. :)
Agreed.
While I always lament losing an old time ZH regular, occasionally a real gem takes their place and immediately contributes in every sense of the word.
Thank you -Michelle-
I miss Green Sharts. He was different and usually challenged the antinomian or wildly anti-establishment thoughts expressed here. There are others, notably a few old Ritholtz hands that didn't stay around, but I miss Green Sharts the most.
Thank you both!
Sure it wasn't a Reuters link?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/37501821/Obama_Hurricane_May_Actually_Help_With_O...
Could have been. Amazing logic. I understand the basic premise is to dilute the oil, but when we get to the point where we're cheering on a hurricane to try to save the GoM, we've collectively jumped the shark into total insanity.
I work with a bunch of engineers, or should I say God's gift to mankind. Anyway, the lead engineer was talking a month ago about how a hurricane would be the best thing because of the dispersal/dilutive effect. Yesterday, he was agreeing that we could have condensate precipitation (more precise term for "oil rain"). Some people get so caught up in the mechanics of a problem, they fail to grasp the consequences of the solution.
"I work with a bunch of engineers, or should I say God's gift to mankind."
I have (had) a casual acquaintance who is an engineering gift from God. At least he thinks so. Anyway, one day as I suffered through an anal explanation of the poor stitching on his new mattress (I swear to God he had just bought a new mattress and was near tears about the poor quality of the top of the mattress stitching job) I finally turned to his wife and asked her what it was like to make love to an engineer?
She laughed so hard her soda came out of her nose. After she regained her ability to speak, all she would say while hubby was glaring at her (and I) was that I didn't want to know. Needless to say I've never been invited back, though the wife called me a few days later to tell that he's particularly meticulous with the "process". :>)
BTW I probably shouldn't talk about "anal" after publishing a 42,000 word, 108 page, 5 chapter essay. :>)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/33507389/Welcome-to-the-Insane-Asylum-Our-Collective-Psychosis
L-O-L. You literally got me into trouble as I burst into laughter in my office. Thank God for alt-tab and quick excuses. :D
Frickin' priceless.
+1. funny stuff
Hey, Engineers created the very internet and PC you're using to dis them -- show some respect.
doctors kill people one at a time. engineers by hundreds and thousands.
Damn Right - So don't you lot get uppity or we send some machine round to your house, kill you, your neighbours, whatever bystanders there may be (innocent or not) AND justify the mess by having your scorched remains labelled "Taliban" (much easier to attract funding if we label every dead person "Taliban" - it's like the spear of Odin that never, ever misses).
Cognitive Dissonance
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=evGZ7caYJto
Which one is you? :>)
Of everyone I've ever met in my life I would imagine you the most qualified (integrity + knowledge) to indicate that moment.
"Are we there yet?" LOL.
Thanks for everything, CD.
Oilcane anyone????
http://oilprice.com/Environment/Oil-Spills/The-First-OilCane-What-Happen...
Evacuations???
http://oilprice.com/Environment/Oil-Spills/Government-Insiders-Get-Ready...
FEMA camps???
http://silverbearcafe.com/private/06.10/gassed.html
The government's prepared though....enter these coordinates into Google Earth to see preparations...
29.97213,-81.660047
I wondered about that. And then I imagined them trolling neighborhoods in Jacksonville, "Hey, you crack addicts! We're trying to save your life! Come get in this van - we're taking you all to Minnesota! Hurry, hurry, hurry, come quick! You'll be rooting for the Vikings in no time...(inaudible)...Yes, you can get crack there, too."
Huh. I know right where that is. Next time we're out that way, I'll have see what I can see.
Love to know what you find out.....the date on Google Earth is 2008 for the picture...
big jesse should do a conspiracy theory episode on that joint.
Yes, we need a hurricane to whip up the Corexit/oil mixture into submicron droplets that we can inhale deep into our lungs.
It would make Bill Gates happy!!!
Duo, dont forget to bring matches or a lighter. Thanks
i'm still betting on oily fiery vortices of death.
+1000 CD
If you want truly scary spin, you have to go to the mother source: the government.
http://response.restoration.noaa.gov/book_shelf/2076_hurricanes_oil.pdf
I wonder where is Mr.Dover III with few jokes about current situation in GOM?
Allow me to step into the breech for my distant cousin, Ben Dover: "Today in Washington, BP CEO Tony Hayward told members of Congress that his company is working to make sure that a spill like this does not happen again. And they have a great plan in place. They're going out of business." —Jimmy Fallon
and there's this:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/markets/marketreport/7841853/BP-oil-s...
Interesting Lamentations, but Taking our Eyes Off the Prize.
The longer the Powers That Be keep the Reality of the Damage reasonably Contained, the greater the PR and Political Fruition Available Therefrom once the Disaster is of the Biblical Proportion.
Then, and only then, shall the Elite have Every and All Reasons under the Condensate Clouded Sun to Impose Further Regulations Upon and Funded by Spurious and Incidental Energy Related Activities.
The Greater the Disaster, the Greater the Need for Great, New, Fundamental Nation, Globe Building, Ecological Friendly Governmental Actions.
Never Let a Crisis Go to Waste.
Do you Really Believe that the Government is Not Aware of these Risks?
If they are, for what Reason do they Risk the Well Being, Health, Happiness and General Welfare, the Very Lives of Those thay are Sworn to Protect and Defend?
If not, they are Incompetent and Must Resign as Did McChrystal, for in this Case, The Risks make Political Comments by a Military Officer Pale in Comparison.
Speculation: Gen. Stan was ordered to screw up so he could return to CONUS as he is more apt to overlook various constitutional issues. Patraeus moves from Florida to Afgan as he may have been more likely to actually have read said constitutuion. Thoughts?
An interesting note: about a year ago I recall reading an article by a Chinese-Brit scientist over in the U.K. stating that the oxygen atmospheric content numbers were falling faster than the rising carbon dioxide numbers. (Unfortunately, I've forgotten the doc's name.)
Not a good sign....
Servers Bitchez !!
Seriously. Get daddy to buy you a few. Squid the firewall cuz who's going to hack the hedge. http://www.squid-cache.org
Network and server management might be a better investment.
Not sure what zerohedge is currently using but my company is using EC2 for one web application with high volume (but lots of spikes) and have found it economical and very easy to use:
http://aws.amazon.com/ec2/
Before recommending this I went to quantcast to get an idea of this zerohedge's traffic (higher than I expected) and love the the summary of the typical user - not me! Well except for Vanity Fair and more educated ;)
This site reaches over 644K monthly people, of which 436K (68%) are in the U.S. The site appeals to a predominantly male, more affluent, 50+, more educated audience.The typical visitor reads lewrockwell.com, invests at kitco.com, and subscribes to Vanity Fair.
There is a slight problem with retaining control and independence of the site (and its contents) if it's hosted in the US. Think about it, even without Hon. Lieberman's current proposal out there. Not to mention AMZ terms of service. I will take the occasional downtimes over permanent takedown anytime.
Good point - I didn't think about that
Understand the Zurich phone number now.
Another suggestion though - sorry if you have heard it before ;) In the comments when a link is posted, it should launch a new window. Right now any link posted opens up a site in the same frame which means the user leaves Zerohedge
Take a look at this link.
Just click on the 'Disable rich text' and edit your post with the HTML code.
If it bothers you, then just right-click on the links and choose 'open link in new tab'. I am pretty sure the site proprietor will not have time or inclination to edit each and every URL posted in the comments.
You may also want to check out: this quick tutorial.
yes i know how to force my browser to do certain things - should not be necessary - any web designer worth his or her salt knows how to direct traffic.
At the risk of sounding rude: quit yer whining.
As a point of debate: you seem to fail to grasp that the comments are posted by the readers, not the site designer/admin. The shell for the site is a standard one, and if you have a specific suggestion (including the necessary code) on how to modify the structure of the comment section, please by all means send it to "Tyler".
With the amount of difficulty using the other button on your mouse (or its equivalent on a Mac) poses, I am surprised you got this far.
lol Mr CD - I sometimes do do a lot of work with user interface - sorry if I am picky :)
We're all picky, I suppose, esp. if it's a topic close to our hearts/professions. My point was merely that in light of being offered the content and discussion that is on ZH, this was a trivial detail. You should have seen it when unregistered commenters were allowed to post...
lol Mr CD - I sometimes do do a lot of work with user interface - sorry if I am picky :) and there is something wrong with you
if there wasn't so much embedded css and javascript in these pages and the images were served from another throttled box maybe ZH wouln't need any more servers..
Software Bitchez!
...plus I come to ZH for the comments as much as the articles but do they really need this many comments per page?
If you were to look, you may notice a drop-down window below the comment section (just above the 'Add Comment' window) for selecting how many comments per page you want to see at a time. If your gripe is with the # of comments per article, I am out of suggestions.
Thank you ZH for maintaining focus of all things during these troubled times. For those who do not think that these issues are pertinent for concerning economics, wake up!
"Perhaps the one good thing to come out of the worst ecological disaster in world history will be the sudden, and jarring awakening from the generational slumber for most of America, and a long overdue overhaul of a broken political and economic system."
Sort of like France when Katla erupted the last time? Viva la rev!
The gulf States should have been evacuated immediately.
And not forcibly, and yes hoping that we could afford financing. I know, I know....this may not have been feasible concerning these recent economic struggles. Just sayin'.
Wow, I haven't read one "This-is-the-kind-of-post-that-tarnishes-ZH's-credibility" yet on this thread. These were the same people who pooh-poohed a possible BP bankruptcy a month ago. I guess some people just have to go through every stage of the Kubler-Ross process while others are open to new and unconventional ideas.
Cursive
"This-is-the-kind-of-post-that-tarnishes-ZH's-credibility"
There you go.
It really needs to become a stamp or T-shirt.
Are you saying that it is such?
Mr Lennon Hendrix
Are you saying that it is such?
Yes I would like T-shirts with that slogan. Maybe temporary tattoos.
huh?
Gully Foyle
This is the type that epitomizes ZH's credibility. Quote me.
LOL. I admit I have a difficult time understanding Gully. What about a design like:
(Gully's face here)
/\
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:
:
This-is-the-type-of-poster-that-tarnishes-ZH's-credibility
Not on this one yet. But there are always dudes who come on here and ask, "Hey Ty, stick to economics...yuck yuck yuck." And the funny thing is, the economy is everything combined, even thoughts and breathes. Butterfly Effect and what not; this and especially since the economy is as fragile as a butterfly.
You are an idiot due to the following:
a) linking Kubler-Ross to anything connected to financial markets and BP especially
b) BP is not going to go BK UNTIL ALL POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS are explored [think spin-off, LBO etc etc]
c) thinking there is any emotion vested in a position by the people who can actually move the markets
d) most of the "uncovential ideas" I read in the comments are pretty conventional, so FAIL
I agree with you on the "This-is-the-kind-of-post-that-tarnishes-ZH's-credibility" comments.
But think before you write; please; I know rants are almost equivalent to trashing Chinese shit with a baseball bat; but rarely acomplish anything.
I'm not trying to be a dick here, but the constant recycling of the same shit in the comment section just fucking pollutes said comment section. Stop with the fucking rants already. How many times do you think one needs to recycle "oh the Jews, the GS, the banksters, the Rothschild's, the omnipotent corporations, the omnipotent government blah blah blah"; god fucking dammit, we all get it OK; we all fucking get it so no need to write it in every goddamn comment.
Jesus; its like a bunch or rambling monkey on acid.
Now, freely, junk away.
LOL...Lay down on the couch, Cheeky.
Tell me about your rambling monkeys on acid experiences. Better yet, post a contributor piece to get that moron MHFT off the top of the page.
MHFT is a certified idiot, but that wont make me write shit until July 12th. Then is when WC is finishing. Until then, silenzio stampa. Also, people who need [hint; no one] to hear what Ive got to say know where to find me. I just cant read anymore of the same recycled comments. Not because of what is written in them [I agree mostly with what commentators try to say] but because there is not novelty in them; its same old same old.
jeeze ZH study of patience.
Prediction on Germany vs. England please Cheeky.
We are the all singing all dancing crap of the world; and this is our crap, and it is floating in the ocean. And anyway these fuckers spin the market, it is all coming down. Sound the alarms, monkeys! This shit is coming down!!!
Shut up you jewish monkey!
Oh Shit! You've done it now. I'll check back. This shit should be pure, acid tripping, space monkey entertainment.
Whoop that ass!
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Jewish Monkey?
Where I'm from, them fightn' words.
I'd rather carry 2 tons of potato pancakes in the back of my King Rancher, than be called a Jewish Monkey.
Damn.
Jesus/Palin 2012
But where is the vice-presidential candidate on your bumper sticker?
@Cheeky Bastard
Nice calling me an idiot. You really raised the level of discourse with that post. Try to be less hypocritical in future, as in, uh, that little bitchfest you wrote was NOT a rant:
Maybe you're just too much of a little bitch to read without your own cheekiness in your ear, but I wasn't ranting. That was me responding to LH. Don't like me talking to LH? Then move your cheeky ass the fuck on.
Major FAIL. Also, I don't write about Jews or the Rothschilds. GS or the banksters? Yeah, when TD posts about GS or the banksters. I won't junk you because I don't junk people; you can only junk yourself and you've done a fine job of that with your "rambling monkey on acid" diatribe.
You're hilarious, you know that right? If you ever get tired of economics and finance, I'll pay to watch your stand up. Thanks for the breath of fresh air. Now I'm stuck visualizing "a bunch o[f] rambling monkey on acid."
i miss wallstreetpro :(
I'm one who does not think these issues are nearly as important as they are prominent on zerohedge.
"The gulf states should have been evacuated immediately." This has to be one of the most ridiculous statements I've heard in my life.
I'm not sayin this isn't unfortunate and important, I'm just sayin that in the grand scheme people fixate on disasters like this and give them more weight than they deserve.
Wow. And how is it not important in so many ways? Financially, BP could go bankrupt, that could be a huge loss to the financials and many other elements of the market. Also, the fact that many jobs will be lost, as TD pointed out, another economic factor. And you think I am being overly dramatic? Well, you need to do your homework. There could be a huge loss of life, liberty and justice involved in this happening.
Do you and others commenting realize that the high levels of methane are in the water not the air?
It is in the water, and in the air. Maybe not at the same degree. You know what smell is don't you? When you can smell something that means it is present. Babies and developing children are being forced due to our governments incompetence to breathe this fowl air. Get a hurricane whipped up and the stuff may fall from the sky, if it isn't already.
Apples and oranges. My guess is that the highest concentrations are near the well... good guess no? My second guess is that the concentrations drop the further you get from the well... another good guess?
I wouldn't suggest you get in a boat and go investigate that area, it might smell funny. I'd also imagine there are some beaches in Louisiana that stink. People should probably not go to those beaches if they have sensative noses.
Like I said, all this is a shame. It will inturrupt peoples livelyhood, that's the worst part. But to pretend it's Pompei is silly.
Pompei?
Now there's a strawman if I ever saw one!
Interrupt livelihoods? Heh heh. How about megadeath:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Megadeath
Pompei a strawman and you introduce MEGADEATH.
I think 12 have died in the initial explosion. You are exactly .0012 percent there.
I can't tell who is serious and who is sarcastic.
Pompei = apple = ~10,000 human deaths
GoM = orange = flora/fauna/human oil-coated, benzene-choked, heavy-metaled, starvation-induced, social-upheaval megadeath
This is an orange:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zv7BImVvEyk
WW looks over the trench. A bullet whips over his left ear; he ducks! He looks down and sees his rocket launcher, he sets his rifle down.
"Now let's see if we can't have some fun." He says.
OK good guess. OK good guess. Are you going to add anything? Are you going to tell me I'm wrong? Tell me I'm wrong? Tell me that this isn't dangerous? Tell me people are free to do as they please. Tell that to the fishermen. Tell that to the reefs! Tell that to Gaia! We need her, don't you see? We need our mother and we are laying her to waste! And then we act like cowards hoping....YES HOPING....that this does not affect our everyday life (as in breathing and eating, never mind networking and entertaining). Livelyhood? That is all???? Wow. Find harmony in resonance before; this you will need to do. And at what point do we say enough is enough. How about no babies smell the toxic fumes? How about no one is poisoned?
Sensitive noses? You make light of a travesty how dare you!
I'm not making light of it and I said it WAS important in my initial post, not that it WASN'T important. All I said is that people fixate on disasters.
Although this is man-caused, it is very similar to a natural disaster. Crude oil is natural. Gaia manufactured it. We spilled it and it is unfortunate.
You sound like you live somewhere in the Gulf and you are worried. Yes, depending on where you live I imagine it could impact your everyday life and that is horrible. My point is that this article is about methane levels IN THE WATER. Sea life will die...that's horrible, then it will rebound...that's fantastic. The oil will not kill you or any babies.
I am not in the gulf. This is not personal.
Sea life will die, but we will not see it rebound for decades. In the meantime, move along? I think not. Huge change is acomin'. It is on our doorstep. It will flatten those not ready. Best be ready, mentally, spiritually, and physically.
OK, you just sounded worried. I agree, the gulf won't clean itself up for decades.
I also agree that changes are coming. It's just that I save my ire for those people doing wrong INTENTIONALLY. And I'm sure I'll get junked for this but I don't think BP did this intentionally.
I care not if they meant to, doesn't matter. Look at what they did! The end justifies the means and they were not prudent in their endeavors; the US gov as well for that matter. This is a big event, a monumental event. It will change, tens if not hundreds of thousands of lives directly. Then spin that off and we have millions of people affected directly or indirectly. Everything from food to tourism, from breathing to eating. It's all gone! And BP did it under the watch of our belligerent government.
And I am worried! Whats it got to do with me? We are all in this together. So let's get it together!!!
But BP WAS intent of doing this well on the cheap.
Those intentions activated caused the mess.
Good to see you hoarding that ire, however.
You'll need it.
So the oil will not kill any babies. I'm so glad you have it all figured out. Maybe this is our population control method.
How the fuck do you know when this will end? What about the high probability that any hurricane will push the oil further ashore into farmland and create a toxic cesspool. Personally, I think we have too many disasters to fixate on to call this one big rubbernecking event. The Fed, the economy, Europe, etc. are all disasters in the making of this giant clusterfuck. So yeah, we pay attention to the mess in the Gulf because most of us see it as part of a much bigger disaster.
Thanks for your wisdom. It is not a SPILL. It is a gushing volcano of oil. A spill happens on the kitchen floor or when a tanker spills its oil. Not when a well with the potentional for a billion barrels of oil is out of control with the minute possibility that relief well #1 will hit the G-spot. Or that the core of the well is compromised and the oil just keeps bleeding up through the seabed.
As for rebounded sealife--like bottom feeders from the Gulf? I will never eat one for the rest of my life. Why, you ask? Because they are eating petroleum for breakfast. I personally don't fancy petroleum for breakfast, lunch or dinner.
Hey Jean qu-est-que ton problem ? I am tired of posting this link but I suggest you read it .
http://www.sciencecorps.org/crudeoilhazards.htm
tu es stupid?
Methane has no scent - that's why it's so dangerous in underground mining tunnels.
Yes.
And what is this?
Cows fart, methane rises.
Gulf farts methane stays in the water according to Jean Valjean.
And i have always kept it in my pants
well it is about a A public company or publicly traded company is a company that has permission to offer its registered securities (stock, bonds, etc.) for sale to the general public, typically through a stock exchange, or occasionally a company whose stock is traded over the counter (OTC) via market makers who use non-exchange quotation services.
so if i were contemplating investing in BP, i sure as hell would want to know about this shit. i got rid of my XOM after valdez. jeeze go global, dude. kiss kiss to you mr. lennon†
Full moon tonight, gots my blood running....
Economics is in everything and that is why it is ridiculous to seperate it from things. Planting a garden, economics. Exchanging goods for services, economics. Using water, economics. Getting a whole sea and possibly an ocean covered in filth? Economics. How can people not understand this? Oh wait, I know....the moon...it is high above us, rising and falling in it's destiny. No, we do not covet, for we are seperate entities, but pulled pulled pulled towards her mounting embrace.
Finger Pointing to the Moon - Bruce Lee:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDW6vkuqGLg
bitch slapped again.
Does she rise and know she does?
Does she move and feel her epic?
An epoch waits and joins her soon.
For each day I breathe, I wait; new moon.
not to be pedantic Mr. Hendrix (I really wanted to type that line, ha), but the "full moon tonight" is actually a lunar eclipse early Saturday morning. . . which means we all still get a "Friday" to experience the emotional gyrations. . . I would be surprised if Friday didn't hold some. . . surprises.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeZm7KQJT1o
"don't go 'round tonight. . . there's a bad moon on the rise. . ."
Mr Lennon Hendrix
"Also, the fact that many jobs will be lost, as TD pointed out, another economic factor."
Like what office staff?
Won't the oil rig side be sold intact and much of the staff kept?
Venezuela will just nationalize them...
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100624/ts_nm/us_venezuela_nationalizations
Venezuela = vuvuzela of the Americas
@ Mr. LH,
My thoughts exactly until I read Dburn's post this morning:
Considering the impossible enormity of a mass evacuation, and the bumbling, corrupt nature of our gov't, I'd say Dburn is thinking pretty clearly.
So what will be done? Nothing. "Fuck 'em."
It's up to the locals to prepare themselves. It will be easier to contain troublemakers with SWAT teams and roadblocks then to actually announce the South is now a massive Superfund. It's horrific. Only the connected will escape.
SELF-EVACUATION BITCHES!!
Yes, exactly, and thus why I used the rhetoric. I was thinking about how I could be misconstrued last night; 'but LH, you don't like big gov, and now you want them to...?'
I am being idealistic, dreaming....
You see, in a perfect world, the ONLY THING THE GOV WOULD DO, would be to fund evac plans. And they would not be forced, like "Hey here is "monie" from the Tres. to help these poor babies not breathe the gases for a few months while we clean up this mess."
But yeah, totally, our gov would fuck up the relocation process in earnest....KATRINA, dig?
But yes, that being said, people should move themselves out of there pronto!
+dig
I second or third that!
Get the hell out! Cant hardly believe folks would rather lose their lives then their friggen possessions.
Well that's the problem with life. Everyone talks about peace and respect and living together but you still die anyway. Now where did I put my I heart violence t-shirt.
Now let's just sit back and watch the powers that be try to convince the dumb animals (military) that they will have to take the blame for everything and should focus on conquering everybody before they have to pay for what they've done. Then watch the dumb animals take a smart dump and a brilliant piss.
Hell, the mayor and Gov of Louisiana didn't even evacuate when they had several days notice of a major hurricane. I remember the pix of the buses left to sit waist deep in water, unused in a parking lot.
†
As I have shared before:
Starting soon and over the remainder of this year the oil volcano will place pressures of irresistible magnitude on the populace forcing the relocation of tens of millions of Americans, creating chaos in America. Poison air and gas clouds will be visible even within the mainstream media. -HPH
June 26-28 Gulf coast/Florida region, thunderstorms deluges, tornadoes/waterspouts, followed by flooding later. Tropical Storm forecast with 80% confidence. - Piers Corbyn (weatheraction)
The currency crash/unemployment wave kicks off beginning June 28, with markets shaking quaking event. The currency woes of July will build to a crisis point of insurmountable proportions by August 1, and the crushing economic reality will come shining through for all to see. This summer will be the absolute last peak in the markets structure, while this fall will be three months of vomiting. The summer debt explosions go to such heights as to create massive overwhelming hyper-inflation in Fall that sweeps across countries globally with such ferocity bringing down governments. Riots and mob unrest will become a regular news story as the currencies are shredded publicly and planetary panic to buy precious metals overwhelms the censors in the propaganda press. June 28 provides the flood word for the precious metals, as well as the floating away of silver from gold. New reorganized currencies will not gain support and will be laughed at when introduced. The metals, especially silver, will from June 28 onward express their own destiny separate from the currencies. -HPH
ElCapitanNemo
DUDE COOL!
I would buy cable just to watch that daily. God I hope there is a reality show.
Relocation would be fucking interesting. Fishermen would head where, west coast? Others up north. Talk about culture shock, whitey pissed about Mexicans suddenly faces an influx of Southerners to boot.
Changes, turn and face the strange...
People don't like southerners? Just asking
I love southerners, I use to live in Columbia SC, great place.
Yeah, that Alvin Greene is a winner! Check out his interview on CNN.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IDb7l0AAvUY
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Don't repost HPH stuff, they work hard enough as it is without having to scrub out circular references. Give a hoot, don't pollute (the data stream).
+1000
Superb fictional account . I loved it tho the timing may be slower.
I did not junk you, but those who did have no appreciation of your imagination.