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Originally Posted by deacon blues
The spill in the Gulf is tragic. But obviously the tragedy is being exploited for political gain.
Here are some numbers to put the spill into perspective: the Gulf contains 660 QUADRILLION gallons of water. If the oil spill continues unabated (which is not happening. BP is recovering some of it---but for the sake of a conservative estimate) until mid-August 100 million gallons of oil will have spilled into the Gulf. When you do the math you get the equivalent of a full bathtub with .000001 of a gallon of oil spilled into the water. In other words miniscule.
There was a Texas oil spill many years ago in the 70s that spilled more than a 100 million gallons of oil and no one ever talks about the enduring devastation to the area. It has recovered.
In 1990 Hussein spilled TEN TIMES the amount of oil into the Persian Gulf which is considerably smaller than the Gulf of Mexico and a recent study has determined that the long term impact has been virtually non-existent.
The amount of oil reaching the shore is the sad part of this tragedy because it affects businesses tha depend on a clean Gulf. Small businesses and communities built around these industries will take the big hit. BP should pay for the damages. But our Prez had within his power the ability to galvanize ships and skimmers that couldve reduced the impact.
Holland offered a fleet of skimmers. They were denied. Other nations offered ships designed to clean up spills. They were turned down. A business in Maine had ships that couldve assisted. Again denied. Why? The foreign ships and the Maine ships weren't union. This admin has turned this tragedy into a political football. This is a greater tragedy.
I posted a thread earlier that the expectations of the President to fix everything is misguided. I don't believe the Prez couldve prevented the tragedy. I don't believe the Prez should be expected to fix all of the fallout as a result. But leadership could've been exercised to do more and put the region first ahead of politics. The fact that the James Carvilles, Maureen Dowds, Keith Olbermanns, Chris Matthewses, Arianna Huffingtons of the world are criticizing this president speaks volumes of how big of a failure he has been concerning this tragedy.
Now he's going to shut down the oil rigs further damaging these economies along the Gulf coast. 125,000 jobs overnight will be lost with the stroke of a pen. Rahm Emanuel's philosophy of "never let a crisis go to waste" is being employed here. They know their window of opportunity is shrinking. Obama's approval rating has reached a new low of 42%. The November elections will most likely bring an abrupt halt to this ultra-liberal agenda.
Anyone with buyers remorse yet? Any of you Obama defenders during the elections and the last 18 months of governance willing to admit Obama is failing as a president? I don't relish his poor performance. Believe me I don't. We have people in our church out of work, our income has decreased considerably. People have cut back on giving and we're having to tighten things around here. Believe me, I wish to God Obama would do well. But it appears the Saul Alinsky school of economics is proving to be a failing approach.
Let's keep praying for BO and his advisors that they reverse course and begin to lead, to govern wisely and to turn to the Lord for help.
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Not to try to burst your collective/in-denial bubble but this is not a mere oil spill we are dealing with......this is an underwater volcano they've tapped into........pictures of the oil surfacing on the waters and the shorelines if you notice are reddish/orange/brown, not black.......and that 1970's Texas oil spill you're referring to was from a well that was about 200 feet deep as opposed to this being miles deep. I don't know where you live, sir, but there's alot of things that the media/BP/Obama is not letting the public know concerning this in my opinion pre-planned disaster and I don't know where you are getting your numbers from but conservative estimates has this at being the equivalent of the whole Exxon/Valdez disaster every 3 days. It seems funny to me how everybody is talking about the economic aspects of this not realizing that this is going to kill 10's of millions upon millions of people in the eastern half of this country......already millions of times higher levels of methane gas, benzene etc not to mention this highly toxic Corexit that they are using that's already gotten into the rain down there.......
Now those of us that are saved need not fear no matter what, but at the same time let's not be ignorant as to the magnitude of this disaster.....they've tapped into something that they may not be able to stop and this could keep gushing out for years......and lest I forget.....the possibilty of a tsunami ravaging the gulf and destroying all of Florida in a matter of minutes as a result of unprecedented levels of methane gas leaking from new cracks on the ocean floor in a 20 mile radius surrounding the blowout site.
100 million gallons by August?... at 4.25 Million per day we've surpassed that around May 13th....
And why is this thread in the political section of this forum?
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