for keeping us up to date with truth and “facts” about the current state of the spill. Brit Hume, on the Sunday panel had also said that the natural seepage in the ocean accounts for much of the oil in the ocean. He also brought up the fact that it is the tanker’s, bringing in foreign oil that also makes up for some oil in the ocean.

Just heard today that some tar balls that have washed up in Florida are being tested, as some of the tar balls being found have nothing to do with the BP spill.

Anything to take our fossil fuel resources off the table, and make the US look like nothing but bumblin bufoons to the rest of the fossil fuel seeking world.

…for the latest Hayride update on the spill.

You are correct in your assertion in this and other posts that the media’s oversensationalizing of what is already a giant story is obscene. It also does unwarranted damage to folks people like Shepard Smith say they’re looking out for. Tourism and the seafood business will be hurt more from a perception of harm when none occurs than the spill itself, but naturally that won’t be any concern of the airheads on TV who want to turn the Gulf into the La Brea tarpits for the purpose of Nielsen ratings.

Too many talking special interests out there and way too much speculation, of course that’s never stops the talking heads or MSM from pushing out those special interest talking points.

Well I sure butchered my spelling on the above post..that’s what I get for typing while listening to all these windbags during the commerce comm’s live stream on C-Span.

not surprised I haven’t seen this mentioned here:

hay is a natural solution to the oil spill. It absorbs and removes the oil without pumping harmful chemicals into the ocean. It’s been used succesfully in gulf oil spills before. wonder why it’s not being used now?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eck8hEhzNp0

This Fabius Maximus post is enlightening.
http://fabiusmaximus.wordpress.com/2010/05/17/spills/

For instance: Valdez was actually the 35th largest spill on record.

The largest spill (Ixtoc) was a similar to the Horizon spill in two distinctive ways. It was a deep water spill and it was located in the Gulf.

In comparison to Valdez the Ixtoc spill was (if averaging the lower and higher estimates) 26.25 times larger than the Valdez spill.

This fixation on the Valdez spill does not do our nation any good.

polifrog

They cut off and set a valve on the DP sicking out of the riser. Would it have made sense to connect to that from topside and possible pulled what the straw is getting now? DP is likely broken but that is still upstream from the open riser.

If they started a draw via that DP they could then dump a wet barite slug (no gel) to settle and plug up the broken riser. This would minimize the seawater intrusion.
If they can keep the riser negative via DP and even the straw also they might eliminate the other leaks in the riser kinks.

DP is built to several different specs. Shears on smaller land well stacks will not cut some of the stronger DP they may have available to use. That would be a toolpusher’s job not to use the higher grade DP without adequate BOPs.
The DP is likely broken at every point in the riser that the bend exceeded the DP ability to bend. Bigger pipe bends less.

That DP they caped is likely broken within the riser a short distance from the end of riser. Deeper in the riser than that straw. I would still see benefit in plugging the end of the riser with a pliable weight material to avoid some fancy custom fit cap. Any overflow would still come out but the inflow of seawater could be minimized.

One more idea: They could base an electric pump on the seafloor or even two in series. One to draw from DP and straw. Small reservoir between. One pump pushing to surface.

All because:
What seems to have happened was several avoidable mistakes made while the company man is taking every shortcut under the sun to bring the job in on budget.

1. Short cementing on casings and liners.
2. Short on cement plugs.
3. A total disregard for anomalous BOP tests.
4. Short on time waiting on cement.
5. Short on mud as they unload to transport. Replacing the mud with sea water on a live well.

My family and I vacationed near Appalachicola, FL last week. For those who do not know, this is a fishing / shrimping / oystering village on the gulf coast of Florida, east of Panama City and southwest of Tallahassee. It is as authentic as it gets, with the locals making their living as much from the gulf as they do from the tourists. The beaches in the area are “ours” in that we have been vacationing there for twenty-five years. We absolutely love everything about it, especially the abundant marine life. As a matter of fact, Florida State University has their Coastal Marine Laboratory nearby.

Needless to say, when I heard about the oil spill I was quite disturbed for a couple of reasons. First, the wackos will use this until kingdom come to agitate against any drilling anywhere. BP should have been able to handle its business after the tragic accident occurred, and it did not. That is a simple fact.

Second, I was very upset about the threat to oyster beds, grass flats, the bays and islands and the sugar white sands of nearby beaches such as Destin. As it turns out, most people who were planning to vacation in Florida were upset too, and cancelled. We did not. I figured I would either help the local economy by spending every dime I could, or help clean the place up.

There isn’t a drop of oil anywhere near the place. Not a drop. Not one fisherman or shrimper I talked to had seen a thing, no matter how far they had gone out. The oil simply is not there. The beach was beautiful, the shrimp, fish and oysters were great, but the good people of the area, to put it very mildly, were on edge.

They have been interviewed and queried and asked about something that is simply not a reality until they are all sick and tired of it. The media has played this to a point where visitors aren’t coming down, people aren’t eating seafood, and the locals are suffering very nearly as much as they would if the beaches and gulf were three feet deep in oil.

Listen to Vladimir. From now on, I will.

Who needs drilling when you can just tap the 100 billion barrels of oil in the plumes?

It seems to me that the thing that should have taken place after all the oil workers on the rig were rescued the oil slick should have been allowed to burn. The government response was too slow. And the largest calculations from the leaked pipes has been 70,000 barrels of oil a day aired on local TV. JGM K9JWJ

Ya know, we could have been pumping Millions of barrels out of a two (2) sq mile footprint in Alaska. The surrounding land is a frozen nightmare in winter and a swampy hellhole with mosquitos the size of your head in summer — and no human or economic development for hundreds of miles around.

However, due to Greenie propaganda of Caribou playfully prancing around in a verdant valley of natural wonder (nowhere near ANWR), a REAL playground and economic hub for actual HUMAN BEINGS is now being threatened.

Thanks a lot algore.

Just sayin’…

“Math is soooo hard.”

Proper grammar saves lives.

Let’s eat Grandma.
Let’s eat, Grandma.

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they said some congressional site had a link to the live feed. I swear I saw fish swimming around plain as day.