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Second Gas Pipeline Explosion Rocks Texas In As Many Days
No, we are not joking. After yesterday's explosion in Texas claimed one life, a new gas pipeline explosion has occurred near Darrouzet, Texas. No reports of casualties yet, although several people have been reported missing. This is starting to really not look good for the President's clean energy initiative.
From Fox News:
DARROUZETT, Texas (AP) — A sheriff's official says three people are injured and others are missing after a natural gas pipeline exploded in a remote part of the Texas Panhandle.
Vickie Nelson of the Lipscomb County Sheriff's Office the blast about 4 p.m. Tuesday was near the small town of Darrouzett, a few miles from the Oklahoma border.
Nelson says at least one person has been taken to a burn unit, but she didn't immediately have other details on the injured or missing.
The blast about 270 miles northeast of Lubbock is the second natural gas line explosion in Texas in as many days. A line exploded in Cleburne, south of Dallas, on Monday as utility workers were digging in the area. One worker was killed in that blast.
We will provide details and pictures as soon as they are available.
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Did anyone frisk Dick Cheney for torpedos and missiles when he left office?
So he hit a pipeline. Give the guy a break, he was just trying to hit a quail.
( If you junk this post, Dick Cheney will shoot you in the face. )
looks like we quit outsourcing to Nigeria
It's terrorists, they said they could attack oil fields inside American soil years ago, and the Bush administration blew it off ass impossible.
This is all Clinton's fault. If he hadn't had a bl, a bl (i can't even think about) if he hadn't had relations with that- that HARLOT none of this woulda happened to this great and glorious country. This is just God telling us we must change our ways!
I mean really, has anyone confirmed an interview with the so called utility workers who were supposedly digging in the area from the explosion yesterday? No? We all know this government won't tell the truth, look at 9/11. Although I believe 911 was terrorists, I still believe Bush knew the plan all along.
I'm not sure about Bush... Cheney, however...
going to H E L L in a handbasket, part II.
Tyler, can you elaborate on "This is starting to really not look good for the President's clean energy initiative". I would think if anything these kinds of events will reinforce the socialists' efforts to get us on "clean" energy. Maybe that's what you meant, and I read it backwards.
Because we can stop drilling by running our cars on natural gas!
"socialists' efforts to get us on clean energy." - teabaggers are so funny
Yea he has it wrong but not in the way you hope. "socialists' efforts to get us on clean energy." Should have read "Socialists efforts to destroy this country..." there fixed it. Motherfucking Obama and his supporters can kiss my ass. Communists from the beginning and too fucking cowardly to admit it.
+1000
I think we are having more of a problem with fascists than with socialists or communists, but to each his own; have fun with the revolution either way.
For example: Was the pipeline expolsion more the fault of socialists and/or communists, or was it more the fault of fascists?
Communists, socialists, fascists, statists all the same thing...all targets when the revolution begins. Free men and women don't need to have folks telling them what to do. Let those who need that sort of tit feeding die in the shadows when the collapse comes.
+ .223
+ .308
"Free men and women"... yeah...
Hitler said the "free men" of Germany couldn't be "enslaved" by the "jewish communists".
Tea Party = NSDAP
Godwin's law...really is that where you want to go?
What's next KKK? Amerikkka here we come? Is that where you want to go?
Well then. Who, which group, would we say has the best or at least most functional plan for marching out of the shadows with power and influence and such? Free men and women do not need such a thing, sheep and proles do. Ministers and board members in command of sheep and proles stand a fair chance against free men and women in the present itteration of this problem.
(Not to disagree, but to educate myself)
Both Italian fascism and the Nazi regime were explicitly and proudly socialist.
Statism usually ends up looking about the same, in terms of its results: misery, oppression, scarcity, and optionally war, famine, and/or genocide for the more severe cases.
I don't want to repeat myself, so, read this comment:
http://www.zerohedge.com/article/descent-weimar-reality#comment-389028
+1. Still do not understand why the left wing socialists are on this site.
Really? Socialists?? Where are they?? We have to shoot them! Hang them!
[teabagger mode off]
Don't try to get on my good side now asshole...
All these socialists have been crying like little bitches for years and years about wanting a motherfucking revolution...I say careful what you fuckers wish for. Here is what Ayers and company, company that included friends of that assclown in the White House, had to say.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWMIwziGrAQ&feature=player_embedded
Here is what I say to threats made by all these clowns...bullshit.
"fascist" my friend ... to seize energy.
Will the "Oil Barron" that want's to give up his lollypop please stand up.
everybody still sitting.............................!
Green energy Proliferation ?
Right !
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Peak Gas....just like that.
good chance the Great Socialist Leader Barack Obama will announce a moratorium on the movement of nat gas through pipelines, and his jack-boot henchman ken salazar will be instructed to place his "boot on the necks" of those evil pipeline operators
Seriously, this is suspicious. Enourmous investment into forcing the cap scheme. Honestly, I believe that it is one of Barry's prime directives. The Left want's control over energy very, very, badly.
Exactly!
This smells like tea-n spirit!
Cap and Trade here we come.
O&G bad.
Rare earth filled, highly subsidized Tesla Roadsters for all here we come.
What a damn joke.
The real answer is at www.squareandc.net
Come on by. We can turn this ship away from the iceberg.
Obama's clean energy crap was nothing but a ploy to get elected. If he was so worried about getting off oil dependency then why did open up the shores for drilling and oil leaks? Doesn't sound like a clean energy agenda to me, to allow more drilling.
This sounds fishy. Natual gas pipelines don't explode that often. To have two incidents during the BP oil spill disaster suggests someone is playing games and trying to influence energy policy.
And - what? - 3 coal-mine disasters in the span of about a month without another one in the last 2-3?
Sheesh, I really don't want to turn into one of those tin-foil types but I have to admit this bunch in DC is starting to bring out the dark side in me.
What should we get long on ? (other than Mandy Drury!)
once is tragic. Twice is worrisome. Three times (including PA) is beginning to look intentional.
4th time if you want to include the offshore rig that blew up, I'm including it since BP said they found an undocumented object on the BOP riser
I'm with you there, Sonic. I have a hard time believing that this is all just a weird set of coincidences.
“Once is happenstance. Twice is coincidence. Three times is enemy action.”-Auric Goldfinger
Decide for yourselves who the "enemy" could be...
This stuff happens all the time.
It only gets media attention now because of the spill in the gulf.
The blowout in PA is completely different and has nothing to do with a pipeline.
Do you really believe that all of the people at the wellsite working and experienced in drilling/completions etc... Are going intentionally do the wrong thing and are in the conspiracy? Try working offshore, just try it. You can't do anything with a permit to work and 3 signatures. Everyone knows about everything thats going on. It's not like one person can just go and intentionally blow up the rig.
As far as pipelines blowing up, this has been happening for ages. It happens ALL THE TIME.
This is way too far out there. Take off the tinfoil hats.
lol.
You make a good point. I'm about sure still that preferred focus has more to do with this latest series of unfortunate events. Something is fishy though, the events are not hitting the news cycle in the manner that I would expect were it a 'conspiracy', at least not yet.
Just FYI... I long had trouble accepting the plausibility of a global conspiracy. That was until I read a book titled 'A windswept house', author; Maliki Martin.
Reading that book opened my eyes.
I said this the other day. Once is an accident, twice is a coincidence, three times is on purpose. I got flagged up the yang for it. I'm not a conspiracy theorist by any means.. but damn, guys.. there are certainly A LOT of "coincidences".
I got flagged alot too, don't sweat, its just the Bush supporters, they are still angry for some reason or another. LOL
Maybe the media is just paying more attention that usual. These things happen out in flyover country a lot. We have a lot of gas pipelines, big, high capacity ones and lesser sized ones crisscrossing out here.
I once worked for a nat gas utility company and unfortunately this happens. More often than not, these explosions are caused by a guy with a backhoe digging without enquiring about what might be buried there.
Quoting myself:
"That's why I hate fossil fuels. Hopefully they will end some day, when all reserves are exhausted."
Footnote: the iraqi resistance explodes gas pipelines every week. Coming to the US territory?
Typical...we should have powered our economy and all these wonders of the modern age with flowers and unicorns...fuck. Whats next you gonna claim that there are too many people on the planet?
Unfortunately for you, crude oil is just Jurassic dead plants oil, and will not last forever, actually, at the current consumption rate, it will be exhausted quickly. Then I want to see what your "modern civilization" will do without the stinking and polluting dead plants oil.
Next step will be a gradual move to the next most inexpensive and effective energy source. Duh. Markets, and the people in them, react to incentives such as rising prices, adjusting and innovating.
How do they handle this on your planet?
As to the oil and gas on our planet, what would have been your recommendation, leave it all the ground? Hello, it is fucking useful, and has been very cheap relative to alternatives.
The point is we are out of CHEAP oil, which is the lifeblood of every facet of modern society. There is no replacement. This calls for deep thought.
Kindly provide a link from a credible component of the scientific community (and by that I don't mean the petroleum industry, because I know from personal experience this is not a priority) that proves that geologically deposited petroleum/oil is primarily the product of the decomposition and fossilization of organic material...
coal, yes (not petroleum)...and shallow methane from the garbage dump doesn't count either....ermmmm how about real world experience and under-reported science instead of knee-jerk propaganda to keep people unaware:
http://www.engdahl.oilgeopolitics.net/Geopolitics___Eurasia/Peak_Oil___R...
[snip]
Dr. J. F. Kenney is one of the only few Western geophysicists who has taught and worked in Russia, studying under Vladilen Krayushkin, who developed the huge Dnieper-Donets Basin. Kenney told me in a recent interview that “alone to have produced the amount of oil to date that (Saudi Arabia’s) Ghawar field has produced would have required a cube of fossilized dinosaur detritus, assuming 100% conversion efficiency, measuring 19 miles deep, wide and high.” In short, an absurdity.
Oil at depth is abundant as strongly suggested by the BP Gulf oil volcano (and many other epic off-shore finds of late)...the question now is...Was the BP gulf debacle just plain old incompetence? or the fortuitous and fore-warned negligence that will provide that same drilling company and all its stooges (glObalma et al) the pretext for, and the benefit of, an emphasis on "green energy" as the sugar pill for the private central bankers' carbon tax as the new yoke for planetary industrial and economic domination?
Thesis-> Anti-thesis-> Synthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thesis,_antithesis,_synthesis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Left_right_paradigm
Slippery subject, huh?
Thanks for the post. Very interesting. The internet at work.
cheers and regards,
There are only too many people on the planet if you count Zina!
The North Koreans, in cahoots with al Qaeda, have developed suicidal land sharks after their successful attack by suicidal eco-terrorist dolphin team 6 on Deep Horizon.
Never mix French Wine with take-out Chinese food...messes with the brain.
We're doomed.
http://www.spike.com/video/land-shark/2802070
No, no, it's Clinton's fault, no wait it's W's fault, no wait it's Abrahams fault, no wait, it's George Washington's fault.WTF? Most of the comments on here align w/ the intelligence of the website...but this crap? WTF?? With that kind of divide & conquer thinking, just look in the mirror, D.A.'s
If it's that bad Tim, why don't you go back to huffpost?
Perfect. LOL
OT:
Dennis Kneale just about gone from CNBC. Evidently he will get to see just how over the Great Recession is.
Get to the back of the line for Free Cookies and Koolaid Dennis
Somebody get the CIA out of freaking texas. This isn't gong to smoke screen what is going to happen in the world markets this week and next.
I turned down a job offer from a major oil company 6 weeks ago to fly pipeline patrol in TX. I figured I was going to regret my decision, but maybe not so much anymore. Maybe I am psychic? Premonition? Probably just dumb luck. I am good at that one!
Honestly, I turned them down because I figure the shit is going to hit the fan soon....why start a new job?
Say hello to carbon credits. These "disasters" are not accidents.
Hello carbon credits. Fuck off and die.
"Do you really believe that all of the people at the wellsite working and experienced in drilling/completions etc... Are going intentionally do the wrong thing and are in the conspiracy?"
That's the problem with conspiracy debunkers. They (childishly) think everyone must be in on it to be a conspiracy. Oh never mind, go ahead and be a lemming.
And they're so quick to believe the official conspiracy, that evil dark darkskinned men in caves brought down the towers and continue to escape us and that's why we're at war, but, no, these other events couldn't possibly be attacks because otherwise our leaders would say so.
I would think all these fossil fuel accidents (one every other day? wtf over?), would bode well for solar power. Silicon is very inert. Im getting somewhat suspicious of the timing of all these accidents. Blowing up a gas line would be easy enough for a terrorist. Slip across the pourus Mexican border like an ordinary illegal and go find a main gas line (clearly marked for your convenience) in a place where you can dig undetected.
Not much terror value though, they just shut the line down and send a crew to fix it the next day.
NG prices have been very low, maybe Goldman bought a bunch of otm calls and grabbed some shovels? (I kid)
Distraction to cover the first failure of Keynesian economics about to unfurl as CBs are unable to print their way out of default? Hey everything was fine and those dadgummed terrorists struck again!!
It's not terrorism. It's racketeering. The next big thing will be cap and trade. They're going to ram it through, even if it takes blowing up several oil fields and gas pipes. Though I suspect we're just getting warmed up. More to come, I bet.
I'm guessing dozens of gas field fires and another big oil spill with a couple tanker spills to top it off. My power company just raised their gas fees for electricity to the tune of about 5 bucks a month for each customer. Like they knew it was going to happen.
I'm more worried about leaks that get "caused" but don't happen to hit the right ignition densities of air and gas and end up just poisioning people.
Who supplied the natural gas pipeline? Inquiring minds want to know.
Ni Hao (A Gold Farmers Story)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dkkf5NEIo0
Tragic.
Prayers to the victims families.
So is this going to make natural gas prices go up or down?
And Zina, I'm not a teabagger (of any sort).
Gas prices and oil prices are going through the roof because the west will be out of gold and the east will stop accepting promises. So the carbon goon squads have to try to take control now using force as payment because when this bitch double dips they won't sell the gold. They'll sell the stocks.
Doesn't matter. If you don't embrace socialism, hate freedom, and laugh at individualism, you're a damn teabagger. Or Hitler. Or something.
Never let a crisis go to waste. Just in case your confused about the mission of the Marxist cunts attempting to enslave you.
Cap and Trade: It's an Energy Tax
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQsIBtwUh6Q
Your music video for the evening.
Ministry - Thieves
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xyv2h_ministry-thieves_music
and the Earth moves.
Yes, I am in the moment with you on that. Stability/permanence was always an illusion. Funny little apes scampering across the face of the planet thinking they know what they are doing, plotting, planning, conceiving, deceiving. Funny little apes, shitting in their nests, flinging poo. As it always was. As it always is. ehizzz. Ohlm.
Really? Haven't you seen the new iPhone 4? Somebody knew what they were doing with that one. (sort of tongue-in-cheek, but sort of not)
Seriously, the morph to a new way of life has already started. The iPhone 4 will probably provide the critical mass to get videoconferencing going for real. That will cut down on fuel consumption some. It won't replace the thrill of trips home to the grandparents for Thanksgiving (over the river and through the woods ...) when cheap fuel disappears. But it beats the pants off of what used to be - leaving home and knowing that you probably would never see your family again. Now you will at least be able to touch base through videoconferencing when you can't afford the fuel to travel.
I've started using go-to-someone's-pc from home and have probably cut my gas consumption in half (only go to the office half the time now). Someone above said, roughly, that as fuel becomes more expensive, we will find other ways to get things done. I think that process has already started. And it doesn't involve flinging poo (at least not yet anyway; who knows what working from home can lead to).
To tell the truth I haven't even read this story, but the sensationalism in the MSM like headliner... it says it all. Now all of you fine folks here at ZH just go ahead and condemn me. Just sayin this is a better place than this.
There is a curious in-evitability to our blundering ways.
Eye in the sky, pie in the sky......
Meanwhile...
Look out below!
If Obama's a socialist he must also be dislexic.
BP manipulating search results in Google and Yahoo...
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article7146177.ece
Perhaps it is just salvo fired in the battle where the EPA is trying to take over all Texas environmental policy.
http://www.fwbusinesspress.com/display.php?id=12663
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123894530&ft=1&f=1025
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2522411/posts
Hitting a live pipeline with a bulldozer blade might cause an explosion. That's why they pay those guys $30/hr.............
EURO chart indicates a move soon :
http://stockmarket618.wordpress.com
http://www.zerohedge.com/forum/latest-market-outlook-1