As the government deals with what may prove the worst oil disaster in the history of the country in the Gulf of Mexico, oceanographer and chemical engineer Rush Limbaugh has gone public with his theory that “enviornmental wackos” may be responsible and that pouring oil into the ocean is something that the ocean can handle naturally with intervention by the government. He also insisted that oil spills are natural and should not cause undo concern.
Limbaugh noted “The carbon tax bill, cap and trade, that was scheduled to be announced on Earth Day” and “hardcore environmentalist wackos” were looking for ways to oppose Obama’s plans for more nuclear power and offshore drilling: “What better way to head off more oil drilling, nuclear plants, than by blowing up a rig? I’m just, I’m just noting the timing here.” So here is a glimpse into the mind of Rush Limbaugh: environmentalists fear an oil spill on the coast so, to avoid such spills, they blow up a rig to cause a spill on the coast.
Limbaugh also encouraged the public to stop fearing oil spills and learn to embrace them as natural as the ocean water they pollute: “The ocean will take care of this on its own if it was left alone and left out there. It’s natural. It’s as natural as the ocean water is.”
Presumably, Limbaugh made these statements from Costa Rica where he promised to go if the health care bill was passed, here.
In the meantime, Bill Kristol told Fox News that the problem is that we are not drilling close enough to shore, here.
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FFLEO:
well I am learning from everyone else here making the same speculations on the opposite end of the spectrum.
As a Former Federal Law Enforcement Officer who post under his real name at numerous other websites to give himself more credibility to the subjects discussed, do not think something is not possible without first looking at the possibilities. I think thats why the president dispatched SWAT Teams to all other rigs because he aint discounting anything either.
Thanks for the comment
CEJ:
This was an accident, accidents happen. BP needs to clean it up and pay people for their loss of revenue.
I think drilling for oil is ok and that there are some risks that are worth taking. This was certainly more than was to be expected. And it will take a toll on shore birds and the gulf ecosystem, but they will survive and recover.
If you dont like drilling for oil I can certainly understand but just because I think humans have a right to make a living doesnt mean I am a troll. Those oil rigs put tens of thousands of people to work directly and indirectly. And provide for literally hundreds of thousands of people either through direct family ties or by supporting the families of the men and women who work in the local economy supporting the oil industry and their families as well. You shut down oil and gas production and you will have a real disaster and one that doesnt involve birds, fish and shrimp.
Pardon me if I think humans are more important than pelicans and have a greater right to life and prosperity than a red snapper or a shrimp.
“If, after the failure of such accusations as “Capitalism leads you to the poorhouse” and “Capitalism leads you to war,” the New Left is left with nothing better than: “Capitalism defiles the beauty of your countryside,” one may justifiably conclude that, as an intellectual power, the collectivist movement is through.”
“The Left: Old and New,”
Return of the Primitive: The Anti-Industrial Revolution, 170
I would say give it until November, 2010 🙂
Oh for godz sake Rush, every try to get on or anywhere near an offshore oil rig!
joe
Truly Byron, your hard won credibility seems to be in full retreat. What’s up with that? Hanging around with bdatroll must be rubbing off on you. We expect contradictory and nonsensical assertions from him.
Byron,
You claim to be an engineer. No engineer or educated person I know would speculate wildly in the manner that you are now.
Bdaman,
You are a pathetic scam master. Most everything you post is tainted with some form of conspiracy, fraud, or fringe thought/theory.
Byron,
How soon would you be willing to eat shrimp from the Gulf? Seeping spread out over undersea structures throughout the world is entirely different from 5K+ barrels of oil being spewed out of one wellhead every day. This is not a little thing that will be cleaned up and all better in a couple of years. I’m guessing that we probably wont know what the full impact of this spill is for a couple of years and the effects will last decades at a minimum.
Byron,
“Commercial fishing probably decimates populations of shrimp and fish more than this spill will.”
Really Byron, really?
Not that it matters, but I find your ongoing defense of the indefensible to be truly troll-like; quite amazing even for you.
Gyges:
so what is your point? I have posted an abstract that says there is oil seepage from underwater structures in various areas of the world. The oceans take care of this seepage through what ever natural process it uses.
Will there be local ecological problems, I would imagine so given the quantity of oil released. Will that decimate shore birds and the shrimp industry and gulf fisheries? Probably not. Even if we didn’t do anything they would still recover because oil is a natural product and if that abstract is to be believed oil has been leaking for quite awhile and we still have fish, shrimp and shore birds.
Commercial fishing probably decimates populations of shrimp and fish more than this spill will.
First, the syphilitic pustular should come back as a dung beetle. Rolling turds around is what he does so he would only have to learn to do it with his legs instead of his tongue.
Second, several large oil companies (Dutch Petroleum for one) install those remote shut offs even when not required because it helps them during maint. and gives them another line of defense when the inevitable happens.
Third, new estimates indicate that the 5k BBL/day guesstimate is very low. Satellite photos of the slick show growth that indicates much more, perhaps enough to out perform the Exxon Valdez twice a week.
US Orders Blackout Over North Korean Torpedoing Of Gulf Of Mexico Oil Rig
A grim report circulating in the Kremlin today written by Russia’s Northern Fleet is reporting that the United States has ordered a complete media blackout over North Korea’s torpedoing of the giant Deepwater Horizon oil platform owned by the World’s largest offshore drilling contractor Transocean that was built and financed by South Korea’s Hyundai Heavy Industries Co. Ltd., that has caused great loss of life, untold billions in economic damage to the South Korean economy, and an environmental catastrophe to the United States.
Most important to understand about this latest attack by North Korea against its South Korean enemy is that under the existing “laws of war” it was a permissible action as they remain in a state of war against each other due to South Korea’s refusal to sign the 1953 Armistice ending the Korean War.
To the attack itself, these reports continue, the North Korean “cargo vessel” Dai Hong Dan believed to be staffed by 17th Sniper Corps “suicide” troops left Cuba’s Empresa Terminales Mambisas de La Habana (Port of Havana) on April 18th whereupon it “severely deviated” from its intended course for Venezuela’s Puerto Cabello bringing it to within 209 kilometers (130 miles) of the Deepwater Horizon oil platform which was located 80 kilometers (50 miles) off the coast of the US State of Louisiana where it launched an SSC Sang-o Class Mini Submarine (Yugo class) estimated to have an operational range of 321 kilometers (200 miles).
On the night of April 20th the North Korean Mini Submarine manned by these “suicidal” 17th Sniper Corps soldiers attacked the Deepwater Horizon with what are believed to be 2 incendiary torpedoes causing a massive explosion and resulting in 11 workers on this giant oil rig being killed outright. Barely 48 hours later, on April 22nd , this North Korean Mini Submarine committed its final atrocity by exploding itself directly beneath the Deepwater Horizon causing this $1 Billion oil rig to sink beneath the seas and marking 2010’s celebration of Earth Day with one of the largest environmental catastrophes our World has ever seen.
To the reason for North Korea attacking the Deepwater Horizon, these reports say, was to present US President Obama with an “impossible dilemma” prior to the opening of the United Nations Review Conference of the Parties to the Treat on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) set to begin May 3rd in New York.
This “impossible dilemma” facing Obama is indeed real as the decision he is faced with is either to allow the continuation of this massive oil leak catastrophe to continue for months, or immediately stop it by the only known and proven means possible, the detonation of a thermonuclear device.
Russian Navy atomic experts in these reports state that should Obama choose the “nuclear option” the most viable weapon at his disposal is the United States B83 (Mk-83) strategic thermonuclear bomb having a variable yield (Low Kiloton Range to 1,200 Kilotons) which with its 12 foot length and 18 inch diameter, and weighing just over 2,400 pounds, is readily able to be deployed and detonated by a remote controlled mini-sub.
Should Obama choose the “nuclear option” it appears that he would be supported by the International Court of Justice who on July 8, 1996 issued an advisory opinion on the use of nuclear weapons stating that they could not conclude definitively on these weapons use in “extreme circumstances” or “self defense”.
On the other hand, if Obama chooses the “nuclear option” it would leave the UN’s nuclear conference in shambles with every Nation in the World having oil rigs off their coasts demanding an equal right to atomic weapons to protect their environment from catastrophes too, including Iran.
To whatever decision Obama makes it remains a fact that with each passing hour this environmental catastrophe grows worse. And even though Obama has ordered military SWAT teams to protect other oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico from any further attack, and further ordered that all drilling in the Gulf of Mexico be immediately stopped, this massive oil spill has already reached the shores of America and with high waves and more bad weather forecast the likelihood of it being stopped from destroying thousands of miles of US coastland and wildlife appears unstoppable.
And not just to the environmental catastrophe that is unfolding the only devastation to be wrecked upon the United States and South Korea by this North Korean attack as the economic liabilities associated with this disaster are estimated by these Russian reports to be between $500 Billion to $1.5 Trillion, and which only a declaration of this disaster being an “act of war” would free some the World’s largest corporations from bankruptcy.
Important to note too in all of these events was that this was the second attack by North Korea on its South Korean enemy, and US ally, in a month as we had reported on in our March 28th report titled “Obama Orders ‘Immediate Stand-down’ After Deadly North Korean Attack” and which to date neither the Americans or South Korea have retaliated for and giving one senior North Korean party leader the courage to openly state that the North Korean military took “gratifying revenge” on South Korea.
And for those believing that things couldn’t get worse, they couldn’t be more mistaken as new reports coming from Japanese military sources are stating that North Korea is preparing for new launches of its 1,300 kilometer (807 miles) intermediate range ballistic “Rodong” missile which Russian Space Forces experts state is able to “deploy and detonate” an atomic electromagnetic pulse (EMP) device, and which if detonated high in the atmosphere could effectively destroy the American economy for years, if not decades, to come.
http://www.eutimes.net/…/us-orders-blackout-over-north-korean-torpedoing-of-gulf-of-mexico-oil-rig/
Byron…how long does concrete take to set up underwater?
They use a slurry of hydraulic cement or mellose that can start to get hard in a matter of minutes.
Maaarrghk!
Rush return as a seagull? I’d prefer he be reincarnated as an earthworm–soft, pink, spineless and wriggling around in and subsisting on dirt. You know, a slightly higher life form that’s akin to his present being.
Rush, the magic seagull lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called ……
CM:
quite right should read 10^6, sorry about that and good catch. it shows up on the web site so I guess the format did not copy when I pasted.
Byron,
I wonder how big of a percentage of yearly volcanic activity the recent eruption in Iceland makes up.
Or, to give another (hypothetical) example: Every year, the majority of antelope deaths in Africa are due to ‘natural’ causes (predators, diseases, etc.) One moderately sized herd is hit by hunters on safari, that kills the majority of males in the herd. While in the whole of Africa the antelope population might be fine, and the whipping out of this particular herd is only a small percentage of total antelope deaths, it has a real and severe effect on the local ecological system.
Byron…how long does concrete take to set up underwater?
And what is the ‘seepage’ rate of Deepwater Horizon…now? Do manmade wells have ‘acceptable’ seepage?
Rush, who??
Byron.
Those figures 0.2 x 106 to 6.0 x 106 you give for natural hydrocarbon seepage does the “106” you mean 10 raised to the power 6 by any chance?
If you do not have superscripts available you can use computing input number format eg 0.2 E+6 or 0.2 * 10E+6instead.
Although Halliburton and BP got some ‘splainin’ to do.
Again.