I can smell the burning oil in the night air

[Fletch XXX]

Horrible smell, you can smell the death man brings with him.

[ShellyCrash]

I've been able to smell the oil itself for days, smells like hot plastic left out in the sun.

Shit like this is why I oppose creating new off shore wells in the gulf. This has potential to be the greatest oil spill disaster to date.

My friend was actually working on the rig next to the one that blew at the time of the accident, I should post his pics here.

[L-Pink]

I am the god of hell fire!
And I bring you..... FIRE...
Fire, I'll bring you to burn
Fire, I'll take you to learn.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by ShellyCrash

I've been able to smell the oil itself for days, smells like hot plastic left out in the sun.

Shit like this is why I oppose creating new off shore wells in the gulf. This has potential to be the greatest oil spill disaster to date.

My friend was actually working on the rig next to the one that blew at the time of the accident, I should post his pics here.

Yeah, many of us have friends in the industry...I have friends who are being helicoptered in and out setting these fires.

Nasty stuff, mankind will kill itself off soon enough.

[Fletch XXX]

My wife hadnt gone outside today and I took the baby outside way earlier today and when I came back in (wasnt even outside but maybe 10 mins) I brought the baby inside (i take her for outdoor walks quite a few times a day to get her out) and my wife asked me, "whats that smell in her clothes?" Its the burning oil,... I didnt know and wont take her outside now.

I hadnt noticed the smell yet, its way worse now though.

She wont go outside, its really fucking stinky, it will give you headache quick.

[Fletch XXX]

Shelly can you smell this burning or just the oil?

The burning smells even worse, its like burnt plastic etc... really nasty turns my stomach and making me nauseated, i can fucking smell it inside

[Joshua G]

Not get get all political & shit...

But why is the left wing going ballistic about the arizona law but not making a peep about this in the national media? Seems to me wrecking the entire ecosystem of the Gulf is much worse then sending foreign nationals back home.

[Fletch XXX]

its hitting our shores now

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/nati...ce_as_bad.html

The leading edge of a massive oil spill that turns out to be five times worse than expected - and may dwarf the Exxon Valdez disaster - began washing up on Louisiana's fragile coastline Thursday night.

"This is a spill of national significance," Homeland Security chief Janet Napolitano said at the White House, before heading to the Gulf Coast to oversee the crisis response.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal declared a state of emergency, and President Obama vowed to use "every single resource at our disposal" to help, including the military.

[ShellyCrash]

Just went outside to get a reading, it's actually not too bad right now, smells more like chemicals with only a slight sent of burning.

Must depend on the way the winds and tides are going. Monday morning seemed to be the worst. We were driving along the coast with the windows up in Ft. Myers which is a little over 2 hrs south of where we live. It was so strong we thought something must have spilled in the trunk. It didn't occur to us it was the oil until we got home and got out of the car and could really smell it.

I'm less than a mile inland from the gulf, so at the moment considering myself lucky it's not any worse for us right now.

[stickyfingerz]

Sure as fuck seems every spring there is some fuckin new reason for raising gas prices...

[cherrylula]

http://www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2...a_river_o.html

To understand the gravity of the danger facing Louisiana's coast from the oil that began washing ashore Thursday, pollution clean-up veterans offered this starting point: Forget the word "spill."

"This isn't a spill," said Kerry St. Pe, who headed Louisiana's oil spill response team for 23 years. "This isn't a storage tank or a ship with a finite amount of oil that has boundaries. This is much, much worse."

[will76]

Originally Posted by joshgirls

Not get get all political & shit...

But why is the left wing going ballistic about the arizona law but not making a peep about this in the national media? Seems to me wrecking the entire ecosystem of the Gulf is much worse then sending foreign nationals back home.

because the sea life can't vote and the mexicans can.

Originally Posted by stickyfingerz

Sure as fuck seems every spring there is some fuckin new reason for raising gas prices...

1 well down shouldn't raise prices. People thinking that prices will be raised could affect the market, which in turn could raise prices lol. there are hundreds of rigs out there, not to mention all of the oil we import.

[Spunky]

A tragedy as bad as Exxon.that shit is thick and will take a month to suck up,causing destruction along the way.the greed of oil is eventually going to kill everything

[CPimp]

This happened monday and I jsut now found out about it. Feel bad for you guys, and now I know why gas is flying up, up here in Ohio.

[BIGTYMER]

BP is going to pay up the ass on this one.

[theking]

I heard an "expert in containment" interviewed this morning that claimed the rig should have been allowed to burn as it would still be burning off much of the oil that is now being pumped into the ocean. He also said that it was the firefighting boats that so heavily flooded the rig that caused it to sink. Maybe truth...maybe not...but both points do have some logic when one thinks about it.

He also stated that atempting to burn the oil at sea would have little affect and attempts to skim would have little affect. He went on to say that an attempt to seal it with underwater vehicles would fail. He stated that the only viable way to seal it off would be to put in place another rig and slant drill into the shaft of the destroyed rig and pump material into it to seal it off. He said this would take a minimum of three months or longer.
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[will76]

Originally Posted by Spunky

A tragedy as bad as Exxon.that shit is thick and will take a month to suck up,causing destruction along the way.the greed of oil is eventually going to kill everything

I wish we would get off of oil as well. But how can someone who uses products made from oil a thousand times a day say "the greed of oil". Until you boycott everything made from oil how can you bitch about something that your life would be turned up side down with out. As much as we want to get off of it, we are a long ways from that becoming a reality... greed of oil lol.

[Caligari]

BP is guilty of Eco-Terrorism, the CEO should be tried in a court of law and executed.

If that happened I guarantee you these fucking douchebag oil companies would get their shit together quickly and no longer be the negligent cocksuckers they are now.

Yes oil is a necessity, but not like this.

We are talking about-
a)10 dead workers
b)1 destroyed oil rig that is gushing incredible amounts of oil into the ocean
c)1000's of marine life killed
d)loss of jobs and livelihood for local fishermen and related companies
e)probable health hazard to local population
f)certain huge ripple effect throughout the US, probably the world

[GlobalCorp]

Originally Posted by Caligari

c)1000's of marine life killed

Not just 1000's, but hundreds and hundreds of thousands.

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by GlobalCorp

Not just 1000's, but hundreds and hundreds of thousands.

you are correct, i should have added a few more 0's to that.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by theking

He said this would take a minimum of three months or longer.

If you "spill" some water in your home there is a known amount to clean up. If a water pipe bursts and runs for 3 months your house is trashed. It needs major reconstruction.

How the fuck do you reconstruct the Gulf?

Drilling should only be allowed if you are capable of immediately dealing with a worst case scenario.


.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by L-Pink

Drilling should only be allowed if you are capable of immediately dealing with a worst case scenario.


.

Many rigs have remote shut off, but ya know, those cost money, and well, BP can afford 500k a day for the rig, but shut offs cost too much. The rig that blew did not have a shut off.

[JA$ON]

[Kirby]

5000 barrels of oil are spilling into the Gulf of Mexico...if I can catch & resell only 10 a day I'm golden.

At about $85 bucks a barrel it's a good deal.

PLUS I can bill the govt. for the cleanup and deduct the depreciation and fuel I use on the boat on my taxes.

And when it reaches the beach I'll go to home depot and buy some trash cans so I can pick it up with them and haul it home in my F150.

[v4 media]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Many rigs have remote shut off, but ya know, those cost money, and well, BP can afford 500k a day for the rig, but shut offs cost too much. The rig that blew did not have a shut off.

Not really BP's fault.. the government should make it compulsory. Any business will aim to save $$ if they can. But the oil companies have got a lot of lobbyists, the marine life none.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by v4 media

Not really BP's fault..

No one can say that for sure until investigation is complete.

[Fletch XXX]

Not to mention, if they didnt think they were to be held liable for it, they wouldnt be coming out with press releases today saying the following:

http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE63T2VX20100430

BP Plc will clean up an oil spill from one of its wells in the Gulf of Mexico and compensate those affected, its chief executive said, accepting that the disaster could hit plans to open new areas off the U.S. coast to drilling.

"We are taking full responsibility for the spill and we will clean it up and where people can present legitimate claims for damages we will honor them. We are going to be very, very aggressive in all of that," Tony Hayward told Reuters in an interview on Friday.

[Amputate Your Head]

That sucks man.
It brings back memories of Iraq for me, when the horizon was on fire, the sky was black and raining oil. The smell is pretty awful.

Hope they get it under control.

[Amputate Your Head]

They said on the local news last night that it will likely eclipse the Exxon-Valdez spill in severity.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by Amputate Your Head

They said on the local news last night that it will likely eclipse the Exxon-Valdez spill in severity.

thats the word, and the thing that has me upset is, its nowhere near finished pumping oil and its already turning our coast black, whats this area going to look like in 2 months when its still pumping oil?

we live right on the bayou down here, the waterways run right past some of my family homes, its going to be sad for a long time.

here is where family is

http://ch33rs.com/pics/JeanLafitte-2007/

[Fletch XXX]

here is a pic of the park I take my wife and kid to, its right on the waterway.



there will be oil there

[Fletch XXX]

Steven Segals house

http://ch33rs.com/pics/JeanLafitte-2007/image37.htm

LOL his entire front yard is water

[seeandsee]

you watch too many dexter

[Fletch XXX]

better view of Rosethorn Park, I love taking my little girl there, you think I wanna take her if the shore is black with oil? She aint even old enough to notice the ducks, but i want the water blue and there to be ducks not black with death



http://ch33rs.com/pics/JeanLafitte-2007/image49.htm

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by seeandsee

you watch too many dexter

dont even know what that is, dont assume thing.

[L-Pink]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Steven Segals house

I had the worst meal of my life at his Chicago restaurant.


.

[_Richard_]

that's the smell of cancer!

[Jman]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

better view of Rosethorn Park, I love taking my little girl there, you think I wanna take her if the shore is black with oil? She aint even old enough to notice the ducks, but i want the water blue and there to be ducks not black with death



http://ch33rs.com/pics/JeanLafitte-2007/image49.htm

Is there any gators in those waters?

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by Jean-Francois

Is there any gators in those waters?

Of course, this is the swamp. ;) Technically though, gators wont be right there, they like more marshy areas like swampy ponds, shallow water, this is a deep waterway, tons of tug boats pushing barges going up and down, people skiing, jet skis etdc, that scared the gators away long ago, they dont come around the park.

[TheDA]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Many rigs have remote shut off, but ya know, those cost money, and well, BP can afford 500k a day for the rig, but shut offs cost too much. The rig that blew did not have a shut off.

I thought it had a shut-off but it failed?

[Fletch XXX]

I know I read it didnt yesterday, I gotta look it up, ive read so many articles that seem contradictory, I read one that said the crew "failed to hit" it LOL

[Tom_PM]

Yeah I saw also that the emergency shut-off valve (whatever name they call it in oil speak) had failed and it should have clamped it shut as soon as the incident occured. They sent down a robot sub to try to make it activate but it failed to do so.

It's unthinkable that anyone would be allowed to drill on the sea floor without redundant emergency shut off's. But there ya go. Hard to predict the unknown I guess.

[Caligari]

Drilling Process Attracts Scrutiny in Rig Explosion
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000...564769072.html

somebody mentioned Halliburton earlier and they might be at the core of this.

[cherrylula]

Originally Posted by joshgirls

Not get get all political & shit...

But why is the left wing going ballistic about the arizona law but not making a peep about this in the national media? Seems to me wrecking the entire ecosystem of the Gulf is much worse then sending foreign nationals back home.

oh because it's just AMERICANS doing hard jobs. No illegals died in the explosion.

[cherrylula]

Originally Posted by Spunky

A tragedy as bad as Exxon.that shit is thick and will take a month to suck up,causing destruction along the way.the greed of oil is eventually going to kill everything

way more than a month...

[Dirty Lord]

oh man, sucky situation

[Caligari]

Originally Posted by joshgirls

Not get get all political & shit...

But why is the left wing going ballistic about the arizona law but not making a peep about this in the national media? Seems to me wrecking the entire ecosystem of the Gulf is much worse then sending foreign nationals back home.

eh,what are you talking about, this shit is all over the news and people are going balistic.

[Fletch XXX]

Originally Posted by PR_Tom

Yeah I saw also that the emergency shut-off valve (whatever name they call it in oil speak) had failed and it should have clamped it shut as soon as the incident occured. They sent down a robot sub to try to make it activate but it failed to do so.

It's unthinkable that anyone would be allowed to drill on the sea floor without redundant emergency shut off's. But there ya go. Hard to predict the unknown I guess.

Ok, I have read that BPs claims of back up valves are too expensive.

Early investigations have revealed that BP did not bother to install -- and that U.S. regulations do not require -- a backup device to provide another layer of protection in case the "fail-safe" shutoff valve failed (which is exactly what happened). Brazil requires such a device, and oil companies like Shell install it routinely even in the U.S. BP didn't because, at $500,000, it was "too expensive."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-p..._b_558473.html

[TheDA]

Originally Posted by Fletch XXX

Ok, I have read that BPs claims of back up valves are too expensive.




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/carl-p..._b_558473.html

OK maybe I got mixed up with the level of device that failed.

[Fletch XXX]

same here me too, ive read conflicting reports.