Plans by U.S. President Barack Obama to expand oil drilling off the eastern coast of the United States are “dead on arrival” in Congress after the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, Democratic Senator Bill Nelson said on Tuesday. Nelson, of Florida, made the prediction to reporters at a new conference where he and two other anti-drilling Democratic senators also called for a huge increase in the cap on oil-company liability related to environmental disasters.
Of course, it makes no difference that the EPA has been closely working with environmental groups and the oil industry to prevent environmental catastrophes and develop plans of action in the cases of spills like this one — and that in the 40 years or so of its existence, the agency still hasn’t come up with a workable contingency plan. In short, they’ve failed miserably.
So. As long as we’re talking about a “huge” cap increase on oil company liability, howsabout we discuss a concomitant huge decrease in the amount of taxpayer money that goes to fund agencies that have proven completely incapable of fulfilling their ostensible mandates?
Yeah, that’s what I thought.
The fact that I’ve even suggested such a thing proves that I’m both anti-science and racist. And that I’m probably one of those strange anti-government creatures the President says likes to dunk his balls into the eager mouths of my fellow hicktard bitter clingers.
I should be ashamed.
(thanks to JHo)
Billy “Too Clever by Half” Nelson is the southeast’s
Jimmy CarterDingy Reid.And I hereby denounce myself for all the vicious confederate hicktard whiteyness of said observation.
demonrats starring in http://www.weeklystandard.com/articles/american-oligarchy directed by g soros, a goldman sachs production
I think it is safe to say we have the absolute worst government since at least the 1970s, on every level.
I can’t recall ever seeing so many idiots in elective (or appointed) office in my lifetime.
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Hey, why let a good crisis go to waste? How could one pass up the chance to kick energy independence/the US economy in the ribs?!
Bah.
This is going to be used as fodder to demonize the oil industry for the rest of our lifetimes. Guaranteed.
I heard on the radio that the congresscritters are trying to pass a law that will retro-actively cap damages at $10,000,000,000 instead of the current $75,000,000.
Another rim-job by the Felcher-in Chief
I am trying to just take over the company, like we did with Chevy, but they are saying something about it being foreign owned or some shit.
Fucking details, details. Can somebody get me a tee time while you guys sort this out?
See also these excerpts from the paper of record:
Probably if slipshod mostly urban leftists didn’t vote their projection onto nature of such a shabby little mythology, we’d not have such presidential broadsides on reason and perspective. Or if we had an honest president either.
How many
acressquare miles of wind farms will it take to replace these cancelled wells, and what kind of long term ecological impact will that have?It’s pretty bad when the New York Times has to call out, “Before everyone goes off half-cocked, how about some perspective, people?”
FIFY.
;^)
No other country in the whole world is so gay and weak and failshit that it won’t drill its own oil.
“bird blenders”
Dude, that is like so stolen…….
Well, since Senator Nelson won’t let us explore for oil off shore anymore, how about we explore for oil on land instead? I understand the US Geological Survey reports we have untold billions of barrels of oil out there for the taking. The Democrat morons in Washington like Nelson are always preaching to us about “reducing our dependence on foreign oil,” but that’s just liberal-code-speak for reducing our dependence on oil, period. Prediction: nobody living today will see an economically viable alternative to oil in their lifetime. We may be forced by the likes of Nelson into some alternate source of motive energy, but it won’t be because it’s more economically viable.
When he can stop the enviro-whackos from suing to keep the transmission lines from being built to transport all this supposed renewable energy, I’ll start listening.
I think that all of Senator Nelson’s constituents that drive cars should look at his opponent since Senator Nelson is apparently a fossilized half-wit. I join him and the Hollywood community in having my car crushed and walking to work.
Yes. Of course, Senator Nelson, let’s never drill again anywhere for anything ever.
Tool.
The shadenfreude will keep me warm when the administration’s moronic economic policies lead to a collapse of the economic and energy sectors.
The thought of Senator Nelson and his ilk sitting in their cold, dark mansions will bring a smile to my blue lips.
Comment by B Moe on 5/4 @ 2:24 pm #
How many acres square miles of wind farms will it take to replace these cancelled wells, and what kind of long term ecological impact will that have?
Ah, that’s a trick question, since oil is rarely used for electricity generation, and electricity not much used for transportation. Also, wind is not continuous, and tends to be lowest when power consumption is highest, and power grids only distribute and can’t store power, so wind farms need duplication with other power sources, so at best they can reduce the run time of other power sources, which are generally designed to run all the time anyway.
So, in other words, it’s a colossal waste of time and money.
People like to pretend that gasoline is the only oil extract we use. The fact is, everything in the oil gets used, and cars were originally made to run on gasoline because at the time they didn’t have a good use for that particular fraction they separated from the oil. I admit there are ways to crack the larger molecules to obtain more octane, but if we somehow magically eliminated gasoline-powered cars, we would still need the oil to make other things.
I just want to meet the six guys from the Sierra Club that keep sueing the government to stop us from drilling anywhere. Alaska’s off-limits, Colorado’s off-limits, Montana’s off-limits, the Coast’s off-limits, and now the Gulf is off-limits.
I swear that a condition of bringing one of these lawsuits should be that you have to turn your lights off, give up your laptop, have your air conditioning and heating systems removed from your house, and walk everywhere you go.
The lawsuits keeping the other 300,998,643 legal residents of the United States from getting their own oil would drop to a number statistically indistinguishable from zero.
Overnight.
The integral fast breeder reactor burns nuclear waste for energy.
http://www.nationalcenter.org/NuclearFastReactorsSA1205.pdf
Anyone know of a good quick way to promote a new conspiracy theory?
I’d like to spread the rumor that the explosion was deliberately caused by environmentalist whackos who knew that the best thing for their cause was an environmental disaster.
Hey, did you guys hear that the explosion was actually caused by environmental whackos?
Czech C-4 was what I heard, placed by an EarthFirster who’d infiltrated a work detail on the rig. And he remote detonated it after being rotated off. Kablooey.
Yep, that’s exactly what I heard, sdferr.
It’s not proof, mind you, but an amateur videographer caught Al Gore laughing maniacally moments before the spill.
The left wants to dismiss the footage as “he was really happy because he was about to eat a nice double cheeseburger with bleu cheese,” but that’s a bit of a reach, if you ask me.
A triple? Okay. Maybe.
But as it stands, I ain’t buying the excuse.
That’s a stupid theory. Everyone knows that Palin is the source of all evil.
You guys seriously need to check out Olberman for the truth. And the bonus would be that if you two tuned in, it would instantly double the size of his audience.
Ah, that’s a trick question, since oil is rarely used for electricity generation, and electricity not much used for transportation.
Electric cars are the wave of the future, Merovign, heard in on NPR.
That and electric moving sidewalks.
The irony being that it wasn’t a “drilling expansion” in the first place. If anything, it was a contraction, designed to drill for Cap & Trade Energy tax votes, not oil. Never oil. It was a complete sham–but it has muzzled Obama from blaming Bush, for once in his very public childhood.
OT – http://www.mostawesomestthingever.com/
When your choice is between Photosynthesis and a Lamborghini you know you have to do some serious soul searching.
I heard that Al Gore was only able to afford the payments on that new house of his because he shorted BP… before the explosion.
OT: Caught another good documentary recently that people might like, The Third Jihad. Here‘s a writeup and you can watch a much abridged version here.
Another OT: Ernie Harwell has passed away at 92.
When your choice is between Photosynthesis and a Lamborghini you know you have to do some serious soul searching.
*Which* Lamborghini?
The way I see it, the more CO2 I create the more plants we can grow. Win-win I say.
That and electric moving sidewalks.
You’re welcome. Now where’s that cabana boy with my drink?
Do we get to adjust that, bdam, to compensate for the communities and environment that wouldn’t exist without them?
so the demonrats fix detroit?
Since you can’t point to even one such community or environment, we can resume drilling tomorrow.
And I’m thinking that one quick answer to those 6 guys from the Sierra Club is that the discovery documents, including their identities, are public records….. and Google Earth shows down to the house level.
so the demonrats “fix” public education?
I heard that Al Gore moved his giant-ass houseboat to the gulf just a few weeks before the expolsion, and it was not seen in port for several days before and after the accident.
so the demonrats “fix” cra et al and dodd, and frank, and shuster, and rangel?
meya/RD/bdam’s mendoucheity continues apace.
“So. As long as we’re talking about a “huge” cap increase on oil company liability, howsabout we discuss a concomitant huge decrease in the amount of taxpayer money that goes to fund agencies that have proven completely incapable of fulfilling their ostensible mandates?”
Hear Hear. Exhibit A is Yucca Mountain. 20 years and $20 billion dollars and the Government can’t even implement a hole in the ground. Insert rectal cavity joke here. Of course, the failure to implement is that political powers, forces, and groups didnt WANT it to succeed, so we have not a driven engineering solution, but a charade dressed up as engineering.
A charade, which if is WAS engineering, might – you know – help us have a reliable energy source that wouldnt kill birds or put mercury in the air or sea.
“Anyone know of a good quick way to promote a new conspiracy theory?”
1. Work for MSNBC. 2. Blame patriotic Americans.
meya/RD/bdam’s mendoucheity continues apace. Brava, bitch.
Nope, just noting your ongoing psychiatric problems, your abject dishonesty, and your anti-social behavior. That is on you. That is all. Now, fuck off, bitch.
Earth first!
We’ll drill the other planets later.
Well, if offshore drilling is out, we have no choice but to drill ANWR.
It’s ON-shore drilling, and if the crude spills all over the place, the caribou will be grateful because it will kill all the bugs.
In other news, Nashville is under water.
Whatthefuckingfuck? Are you guys serious? And how many men died on that rig??? 11?
OK, nevermind. There’s nothing about an Earth First! connection I could find anywhere… except at Democratic Underground, of all places.
It’s from comment #24, Spiny.
Oh. I read the whole thread and still managed to miss that.
I’ll leave now. I’ve embarrassed myself enough…
No biggie, Spiny. I don’t think that’d even rank in the top 1,000 of my wacky misreads on this blog.
Naw, you guys are wrong: Big Windmills are the answer; and when they stick sixty Bird Blenders in the bay off of the Kennedy Kompound, and the cumulative effect of all of that localized removal of Energy from the Wind causes a hurricane to strip Hyannisport, by golly, the REST of us will learn OUR lesson….
Spiny – Think about it this way, even at your very worst, you are worlds smarter than meya/RD/bdam
The windmills will make Martha’s Vineyard tip over and capsize.
Damn!
There WAS a contingency plan worked out by the oil industry, the oil services industry, environmental groups, insurers, DOE and EPA. It was put in force in 1994 during the Clinton Administration.
Unfortunately, Obama did nothing to implement it in the early days. Now, the proper contingent equipment and personal had never been funded, so it would have taken a few days to get the stuff there, BUT if they had acted immediately, the thing would have been substantially restricted by burning.
In fairness, Obama was busy with political speeches and berating bankers, and he also had just got a new full-length mirror which needed breaking in, so maybe he just didn’t have time to get it right.
The fishing season in Prudoe Bay is awesome, bdam.
I suppose you are walking to your agrarian job from your candle lit log hovel?
So O! can’t get the bureaucracy to act any quicker than Bush even when they’re on his side? Surprise, surprise.
Oh, and bdam, the fishing there might not be good for a couple years; of course those couple of years have to be compared with all the years that fishing improves around oil rigs because they act as artificial reefs.
“Seven fat years to prepare for seven lean years.” Amazing how well the Bible works as a guide to prudent behavior, no?
I’m sure it’ll be folded into your next electical bill, bdam.
Maybe we should look to bdam’s heroes for the answer.
Ok, then. Pay at the pump. Pay your utility bill.
One of these days you’re going to have a point, and then actually make it. Maybe. Hope springs eternal.
No.
Nope. I invented/suggested. You fell for it.
meya/RD/bdam/alltheothernames has to be a truly disturbed thingie. How many times does someone have to get turned away at the door, and told they are not welcome, before they start to understand?
Oh. But you said:
You are doing this whole point-making thing wrong.
They’re on a mission from Gaia, JD.
Where exactly are you getting your gas that you don’t have to pay for it?
BMoe – Mental midgets cannot be expected to make sense.
O!
Me next! Me next!
meya/RD/bdam is just pulling shit from its ass again. I suppose that Prudhoe Bay’s externalities were a net negative?
Standard leftist failure to grasp economic realities:
Bad idea. If it wants a longer lasting supply it should go between its ears.
The area between its ears it totally devoid of matter, McGehee.
What’s wholly missing anywhere I can find is any sense that accidents are things what our little country can handle and learn from and move on from without being too terribly phased. It seems a lot of people who should know better are holding their breath. The BP and Transocean stocks seem to have found the floor though. Maybe some of that reflects a can-do attitude.
Okay, bdam is getting too comfortable shitting here.
I’m going to nuke its comments. From orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
Apparently having John Podesta as your lobbyist can pay dividends.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/story/2010/05/04/ST2010050405322.html?sid=ST2010050405322
Fucking aliens blew it up!
I bet they were illegal, as well.
Yeah, it’s amazing how O! can be the top pig at the BP trough in 2008 and his Interior Department can give their Gulf drilling operations a blanket exemption from inspections in 2009.
Most ethical Administration EVAH!
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So, we know know that Barcky was the leading recipient of BP campaign largesse in the last 20 years (aren’t they a foreign corporation? LOL) and that his Administration gave them expemptions from inspections less than a year prior to this. And the MSM is reporting this where?
FWIW, MSNBC had a congresscritter on last night on Crissy’s show, and they were blaming this on the Cheney/Bush regime. Overtly.