Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill
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JD7.62;4107221; said:
I've been hearing this every 5 minutes since it happened. In fact I'm tired of hearing about it. Shame it makes me more sick to think of the damage it will do
I don’t know why this is not getting the coverage it should be getting. They have never encountered anything like this before. There has never been any spill/leak like this, they do not know how to stop…. read it again – THEY DO NOT KNOW HOW TO STOP THIS. What if they can’t stop this for months… imagine the devastation. Even if this goes on for another week or 2, that’s 4-7 million gallons of oil. The whole South East economy will be wiped-out/cleaned. This will have ripple affects for YEARS.
pURPLEcHILLIrED123;4108293; said:
Where are you getting these astronomical figures from? An oil reserve is oil that is COMMERCIALLY available. Click on the link. It's straight out of the CIA's figures. The Middle East makes up the majority of OPEC. Venezula, Ecuador, Lybia, Angola, Algeria and Nigeria are the OPEC countries that are not in the Middle East. What really matters is oil that is commercially available.
https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/rankorder/2178rank.html
The media has just in the last 24-36hrs started to pick up on this. The spill happened ten days ago!
And yes, it could take weeks or MONTHS to stop this. The economic and ecoligical impact in the region may make Katrina and Ivan look good.
Lets all hope and pray for a miracle that this thing is stopped soon!
And yes, it could take weeks or MONTHS to stop this. The economic and ecoligical impact in the region may make Katrina and Ivan look good.
Lets all hope and pray for a miracle that this thing is stopped soon!
phillydog1958;4109211; said:
That link is just for conventional oil that you get from the ground. Shale Oil is different kind of oil, but is just as good as any raw oil out there.
America has more oil, more coal (enough for 200 years of current usage), more raw material, and basically more resources then a lot of countries combine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oil_shale
http://www.fossil.energy.gov/programs/reserves/npr/Oil_Shale_Resource_Fact_Sheet.pdf
pURPLEcHILLIrED123;4109227; said:
If it's not commercially available and difficult to get to, it's not very relevant. What about the negative impact on our ecological system?
It's this type of garbage that makes me laugh when people say they shoot groundhogs because they put holes in their lawn. Thia planet is so much better off without us.
With oil prices staying around the $80-100 range/barrel… it is cost-effective to start developing this. When oil prices were at $150/barrel, the government was looking into developing this. We should be looking into developing this technology. We don’t have to use it yet, but we will soon. So let’s just have the technology on handed and continue to refine the technology.
Oil is literally the blood of the world. Without it, we can not and will be able to exist. We will be going back to the pre-industrial revolution.
Oil is literally the blood of the world. Without it, we can not and will be able to exist. We will be going back to the pre-industrial revolution.
pURPLEcHILLIrED123;4109288; said:
Come one now, you know people think the world runs on rainbows and rays of sunshine and magic fairy dust and its hard to reason with these people otherwise. Of course they will be the first to complain when their power goes out and they cant run their uber cool espresso machines.
Mods, Im sorry for sounding like an ass, but this effects me personally as well as many family members and friends that rely on the Gulf for economic survival.
