Gulf oil spill

[bassin_bug]

From all that has been said, who among us has considered what affect the chemicals being used, to push the oil below the surface, will have on the safety of eating seafood? Unless they ban the harvesting of all species from the entire Gulf there is a risk of us consuming chemical polluted seafood. How many decades will it take just for the oil to come off the rocks. Valdez Oil is still soaked into the rocks and sand from years ago.

I believe the Gulf will be declared a "dead zone" for a very long time.

Someone mention the rising gas prices. In my neighborhood it was $2.90 last night, haven't heard what it is today.

[DJD]

Read this morning that the damage could be ten times worse based upon BP exec's. I guess we will be owning an oil company before long.... Barry Petrol

[HURRICANEBOB]

Fish oil is good for you.

Maybe it was just time to change their oil. ?!?!?

I do agree, there's places onshore we could drill that would be safer, but the eco freaks got those blocked, and nobody wants to buy a house in a subdivision down wind from an oil refinery. Don't believe that? Do you live in Valley Station?

[HURRICANEBOB]

The rig was owned by Transocean Ltd. and operated by BP. Cameron International Corp , the supplier of the well head equipment which has been blamed for the accident. Halliburton Energy Services was contracted to provide rig maintenance, safety administration, environmental control. So BP is quick to say they will pay for the clean up. They will then turn around and sue for the damages back from the other companies that had hands on time with teh rig to get their money back.

Oil and other smelly round things roll down hill.

[DJD]

Is that the same Halliburton that we have come to know and love?

[GeoFisher]

Is that the same Halliburton that we have come to know and love?

Yea, I heard **** Cheney deliberately detonated some explosives under the rig just to create some hardship for the Obama Administration..........just because things are going so GREAT for the Obamunists.

Later,

Geo

[bassin_bug]

Environmentally speaking...this is a very VERY sad time.

It's also a VERY sad time for the families of the 12 workers who were lost and now the Gulf is their eternal grave. Nobody in the news business even mentions them and I have never even read the list of names. Working offshore is how most of the people in my home community make their living. Several years ago a hurricane flipped a rig and killed my first cousin and it took two weeks to find and recover his body from under a load of pipe. Another time I lost a friend when a pipe got loose and knocked him off the platform. He had just graduated high school and that was his first job. I know lots of sad stories like that but the oil companies, like the coal mines, seem to have taken the attitude that it's just the price of doing business. jmo

[Big Gills]

Thats a very good point Bugs cuz I had no idea that anyone lost their life in this incident. I heard there was an explosion but the news never mentioned that anyone died. It has been only about the oil spill and the threat to those states that border the Gulf. Yes the oil companies will always hide that sort of news. Its all about the almighty dollar to them.