Over the weekend BP finally claimed victory in the war against their fucked up oil pipe. You see, they plugged it in with a 4 inch pipe and are now collecting oil as it spills out of the bottom of the ocean. Here, take a look at the pipe before BP's success;
now compare that to how it was flowing out now with the new pipe on it....
What a difference a day makes! Ha. Fuck this gay planet. I mean, seriously. If I wasn't laughing right now I would be crying because I really don't know what to tell you. How could anyone claim that is a success when it looks exactly the same as it did before. Oh wait, I know what it is that makes this a success, they're finally collecting it.
Yup, the results: Hey guys, we're collecting oil again! Doesn't look like we've made a goddamn difference in the hole in the ground spewing up deadly ocean toxin and making your Gulf Coast look like a Sonic the Hedgehog level, but now we can sell you some of it in the future! Wooohoo, go us!
Let's just bring about the colossal shit storm of dead sea life and oil washing up on shores all along the Eastern seaboard as this sucker gets caught up in the loop current. I want oil blobs in those cat 4 Hurricanes to rain down upon the ignorant masses that shrug away this shit.
I just don't seem to care anymore. No wait, it's not that otherwise I wouldn't be writing this piece here. I guess I just don't expect anything to change. Of course those idiots will keep shrugging this shit away and blame Obama and the Dems for it all while electing another Republican into office who will line their pockets with big oil's money and scream about how we should Drill, baby, drill! I just want to see some natural justice rain down on these assholes. Crying faces on TV as their cities are covered in gunk, car accidents everywhere on roads slicked to the extreme. Fires rage with no end in sight as the rain itself comes down in flames.
Yes, I want to taste this destruction. I want to breath in smoke. I want it all to burn down because we really don't deserve anything nice anymore. We're children who don't know how to play with their toys and we just end up breaking it and crying when it's too late. C3PO's arm can't be glued back.
Why am I so bitter right now? Oh, let me bring you into my world of darkness. You see, there's a cap to how much an oil company has to pay out in damages to those whose lives it ruined. They've been trying to increase this cap from 75,000 to 10 billion. It's only fair, right? You ruin an entire eco system and destroy the way of life of people and a community around you, you should pay... Well, that would be if our politicians weren't so fucking corrupt or had any balls. Ours don't.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma used procedural move to stop the bill from coming to the Senate floor, saying that raising the cap would hurt smaller drillers.
"Big Oil would love to have these caps up there so they can shut out all the independents," he said.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma used procedural move to stop the bill from coming to the Senate floor, saying that raising the cap would hurt smaller drillers. "Big Oil would love to have these caps up there so they can shut out all the independents," he said.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma used procedural move to stop the bill from coming to the Senate floor, saying that raising the cap would hurt smaller drillers. "Big Oil would love to have these caps up there so they can shut out all the independents," he said.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma used procedural move to stop the bill from coming to the Senate floor, saying that raising the cap would hurt smaller drillers. "Big Oil would love to have these caps up there so they can shut out all the independents," he said.
Republican Sen. James Inhofe of Oklahoma used procedural move to stop the bill from coming to the Senate floor, saying that raising the cap would hurt smaller drillers. "Big Oil would love to have these caps up there so they can shut out all the independents," he said.
Baw-ha ha ha ha ha ha... I fucking love this country. I mean, I seriously can't stop laughing at this shit. Really? REALLY?! I just wonder why our country is so god damn blinded from seeing how clear this is. I mean, I must sound like a raving mad man on this subject, but there's logic to my insanity. Let's take a look at the this guy's campaign contributions.
Campaign contributions
In the 2008 election cycle, Senator Inhofe’s largest campaign donors represented the oil and gas ($446,900 in donations), leadership pacs ($316,720) and electric utilities ($221,654) industries/categories.[48]
In 2010, his largest donors represented the oil and gas ($429,950) and electric utilities ($206,654).
"Big Oil would love to have these caps up there so they can shut out all the independents," he said.
($429,950)
Yes, struggling mom and pop oilrigs would suffer if we increased these caps.. Waaaaaaah wwaaaaaaaah. I sure know that I have the god given right to use the money I have saved working as a cashier at the Gap to build my own oil platform! Why are you people against the American dream?
Who the fuck is this mom and pop oil rigging business that they're trying to protect? Even assuming this bullshit is true, isn't it still the responsible and logical conclusion to have an effective cap in place? You know.. just in case shit happens. I have auto insurance for the event that my car gets crashed into, why not make sure that these places are insured?
Not to mention that if you can't afford to pay the damages for a disaster that ruins an entire ecosystem, maybe you shouldn't be drilling and you should just get your mom and pop ass back to main street so that the nearest Wal*Mart closes you out.
If Obama wasn't a nutless coward on this subject he could handle this. It's very easy when you think about it. He just needs to tell Inhofe that the federal government wants its ten billion dollars and if inhofe wants to suck off the oil companies that bad, he could tell him that the feds will refuse to grant authorization to any new drilling in Oklahoma. The EPA and MMS is also about to get protological on every well in the state until he caves or the federal government gets its 10 billion dollars. When it comes to these companies it's the money that talks. Be it in saving some or spreading it around a little to cover up their shit storm like some cheating husband buying his gal a new ring. You see their latest token gift?
BP Awards Tourism Grants to Gulf States
BP announced grants to each of the states of Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana to help their Governors promote tourism around the shores of the Gulf of Mexico over the coming months.
This is part of our ongoing commitment to help mitigate the economic impact of the oil spill.
BP is providing $25 million to Florida and $15 million each to Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana.
"The Gulf Coast is our home too. We are doing everything we can to plug the leak, contain the spill offshore and protect the shoreline. With the deployment of the riser insertion tool yesterday, we made important progress in containing the spill, and that will further strengthen our ability to keep oil off the shore," said Tony Hayward, BP's Group Chief Executive.
"We understand the Governors' concerns for the impact on the tourism industry, and are making funds available so that they can support the industry's efforts to provide accurate information about the state of the beaches across the region."
These grants are in addition to the $25 million grants BP announced May 5 to help each of the four states accelerate the implementation of Area Contingency Plans. The grants announced today are for the Governors to distribute as they see fit to promote tourism.
The grants BP has made to the four states do not affect BP's response to the Deepwater Horizon incident or existing claims process, but are supplemental to them.
I mean, really. What the fuck? Oh yes, let's encourage tourism to see the shores of slickness along the beaches. What kind of idiotic shit is this and who comes up with this crap? Who's going to want to visit these beaches now? They're going to be covered with oil and the slick is going to be shiny. It's not going to encourage tourism other than hippies coming here to help clean up some of the poor sea animals.
Oh, then there's the country clubs that are worried about the oil on the Keys. Just check out what these Bourgeois mother fuckers are hearing about the effects of this BP disaster on the Keys.
Dear Member,
As media coverage of the Gulf oil leak continues, you have likely heard reports of oil entering the loop current and approaching or arriving in the Florida Keys. On the evening of Monday, May 17, twenty tar balls ranging from 3 to 8-inches in diameter were found on the shores of Fort Zachary Taylor Park in Key West, a little more than 100 miles southwest of [REDACTED].
It is important to keep in mind that scientists have yet to form a consensus on whether oil has in fact reached the loop current, the amount of oil that could reach the Florida Keys or its potential affect on the Keys' marine environment. Similarly, the US Coast Guard has yet to identify the source of the tar balls found in Key West. A laboratory analysis is underway, which should confirm whether or not the tar balls derived from the Gulf oil spill. The Coast Guard will also conduct a series of shoreline and aerial surveys throughout the day to determine if additional tar balls are present in Key West.
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In the event that oil does reach our area, all Club and Associates stand ready to assist in cleanup efforts. Regular meetings reviewing operational contingencies are held with both organizations as information evolves.
[REDACTED] continues to monitor the situation closely.
I guess I shouldn't talk shit about dove. At least they actually donate all the soap to be used for animal clean up and it was found to be the best (and really only) good choice after a lot of experiments conducted by animal rescue groups. So that's not really just capital bullshit as usual.
Of course for the purpose, it's diluted to 1% so it takes only a few hundred of thousand little bottles a year so they're not really breaking the bank, but occasional, small gestures of decency from a company are a little better than the nothing done by the rest. At least they're not like the oil company who is drilling into vast pockets of stuff that could cause a mass extinction event.. but don't worry, it's totally cool. I swear.
The vast deepwater methane hydrate deposits of the Gulf of Mexico are an open secret in big energy circles. They represent the most tantalizing new frontier of unconventional energy — a potential source of hydrocarbon fuel thought to be twice as large as all the petroleum deposits ever known.
For the oil and gas industry, the substances are also known to be the primary hazard when drilling for deepwater oil.
Methane hydrates are volatile compounds — natural gas compressed into molecular cages of ice. They are stable in the extreme cold and crushing weight of deepwater, but are extremely dangerous when they build up inside the drill column of a well. If destabilized by heat or a decrease in pressure, methane hydrates can quickly expand to 164 times their volume.
Survivors of the BP rig explosion told interviewers that right before the April 20 blast, workers had decreased the pressure in the drill column and applied heat to set the cement seal around the wellhead. Then a quickly expanding bubble of methane gas shot up the drill column before exploding on the platform on the ocean's surface.
Even a solid steel pipe has little chance against a 164-fold expansion of volume — something that would render a man six feet six inches tall suddenly the height of the Eiffel Tower.
Scientists are well aware of the awesome power of these strange hydrocarbons. A sudden large scale release of methane hydrates is believed to have caused a mass extinction 55 million years ago. Among planners concerned with mega-disasters, their sudden escape is considered to be a threat comparable to an asteroid strike or nuclear war. The Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a Livermore, Ca.-based weapons design center, reports that when released on a large scale, methane hydrates can even cause tsunamis.
From what I know, which isn't a whole lot, methane hydrate eruptions like that are one of the short list of things that mass extinction groupies blame their favorite extinctions on. I know I've read something about the PT extinction being partly blamed on that. So with every pump into your tank you're playing Russian roulette with the lives of every living soul on the planet. Way to go.
Even if you strip out the doomsday elements of that article, I'm imagining that even the safer release of large amounts of methane gas from offshore drilling has got to be absolutely terrible for the greenhouse effect. You know, seeing as methane is much worse than carbon dioxide in terms of it's global warming potential. So it's pretty clear that this would be catastrophic.
And if that idea wasn't enough, remember that large amounts of methane ice is now thawing inb the arctic, and Greenland is melting at an insane rate, it melted 15 feet this year. The Arctic passage is open, We are at the point where we must kill oil companies for the planet to survive. I'll just leave you with this video.. cause really, in the long run, we're all dead. Sadly we're making sure that long run becomes a short run..
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