This is terrible. Two oil spill workers have died – one in a swimming accident and one by his own hand. How sad. In addition, the gush has gotten worse. Fox News reported that a robot bumped the containment cap and the cap has been removed. So now even more oil is spewing into the Gulf.
Before the problem with the containment cap, it had collected about 700,000 gallons of oil in the previous 24 hours. Another 438,000 gallons was burned.
The current worst-case estimate of what’s spewing into the Gulf is about 2.5 million gallons a day. Anywhere from 67 million to 127 million gallons have spilled since the April 20 explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig that killed 11 workers and blew out a well 5,000 feet underwater. BP PLC was leasing the rig from owner Transocean Ltd.
Meanwhile, the Obama administration tried to sort out how to resurrect a six-month moratorium on new deepwater drilling that was struck down by a federal judge a day earlier.
Here’s Obama yesterday using the disaster to sell his agenda and get his supporters fired up. Nothing like taking a little time off from ignoring dealing with the worst disaster in a generation to make a campaign video.
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For goodness sake, isn’t it time to swallow pride and gratefully accept the offers being made by others, who are qualified and available to come and help fix this dreadful situation?
One would almost think the President either did not care about what is happening, or was too pig headed to see that offers of help – would be beneficial and are needed – otherwise the Requiem for The Gulf should be being practised right now! This will be the world’s largest funeral procession and the longest obituary in living memory. Maybe even one of the shortest Presidency’s in recent history too!
http://just-me-in-t.blogspot.com/2010/06/impound-seize-confiscate-make-use-of.html
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