The problem with the April 20 spill is that it isn't really a spill: It‘s a gush, like an underwater oil volcano. A hot column of oil and gas is spurting into freezing, black waters nearly a mile down, where the pressure nears a ton per inch, impossible for divers to endure. Experts call it a continuous, round-the-clock calamity, unlike a leaking tanker, which might empty in hours or days.
"Everything about it is unprecedented," said geochemist Christopher Reddy, an oil-spill expert and head of the Coastal Ocean Institute at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts. "All our knowledge is based on a one-shot event…. With this, we don't know when it's going to stop."
Accidents have occurred before in which oil has gushed from damaged wells, he said. But he knew of none in water so deep.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
What Have They Done To The Earth? What Have They Done To Our Fair Sister?
Unprecedented. Never before. "Who could imagine?"
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Thank you, Dick Cheney and your sekrit energy task force.
Yet another reason that cobag should be rotting in prison.
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Another Reason To Chain Cheney Up Editor Adds:
Not just the energy task force: Looks like Halliburton's cementing job may have started it all.
"Obama's Katrina" is really Dick's second Katrina.
I hope Congress has the balls to drag him into the Capitol for some testifyin'.
Not holding my breath, though.
"Go Ahead, Hold Your Breath" Editor Advises:
You'll turn blue. (Then you could call yourself B.B.B. Blue B.!)
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