OK people time to get rid of the automobiles, furnaces, and water heaters so we will be able to go to the beaches on our horses. Before the auto the smell of horse poop in New York was almost unbearable.

They shut up only to blame environmentalists for the oil spill, despite how that makes no sense whatsoever.

If wish I could drop a truckload of that oil sludge in the lawn of Sarah Palin so she can appreciate the fact that cheap slogans and cutesy soundbites are not the way to deal with serious issues. I would then crap on her lawn for added emphasis.

We’re here:

DRILL BABY DRILL!!

Planes crash. We don’t stop flying. Your kid shits his pants, you don’t stop feding him. Get a grip people, the world runs on fossil fuels, not unicorns and windmills.
DRILL BABY DRILL!

damnit “feeding”….sorry.

It should be noted Jeffrey Smuzinick was still unavailable for comment.

I just can’t believe there’s a TV talking head named “Yellin.” It’s too perfect.

“Your kid shits his pants, you don’t stop feding him. ”

Your kids shitty pants doesn’t devastate a whole region.

Unless he has really shitty pants.

Love Libs pretending to suddenly care about the South. Or more likely the environment and the wildlife, not so much the economy and the people.

If you use oil, then shut the f*ck up about the oil drilling. Stop complaining about coal everytime there’s a mining accident. And stop complaining everytime there’s a problem at a nuclear plant somewhere in the world.

In fact, do us all a favor and just shut the f*ck up, period.

Christine – Gulf Coast

I’m here too, Michelle. Although I must admit when I heard about the oyster beds I almost signed a petition to outlaw drilling everywhere. :)

I am looking forward to learning the facts of the explosion and why the safeguards to be able to shut the flow off failed.

Oil exploration and production have been going on in the Gulf of Mexico for a 100 years with no major mishaps. I would say that is a very good record for an inherently dangerous situation and compares very favorably to damage from the transport of foreign oil to our shores.

If we are to be a modern economy that is necessarily based on carbon fuel we just have to work to maintain the highest safety standards technologically possible and do everything possible to correct the relatively scarce but inevitable accidents. I am glad that Bobby Jindahl is Governor rather than the scared rabbit ineffectual Blanco.

So, all you anti oil exploration/production folks, what is your solution? What effect will your solution have on our standard of living, economy and place in the world. What do you accept as a reasonable trade off from the inevitable declines versus what exploration/production bans?

Serious answers only, please.

I’m not completely against off-shore drilling. I do want to know why the fail-safe device that is required from BP in every other country isn’t required here.

Oh yeah, because the Founding Fathers didn’t put it in the Constitution.

Big_F-ing_Deal says:
April 30, 2010 at 6:49 pm

Do you have a citation b/c if true I would like to know that also.

The only thing that comes to my mind when I hear BP is that they make very compelling pollyanna type “green” ads.

I HATE the fact that NOTHING in this country can happen w/o it being politicized. NOTHING. Now I’m going away before my head explodes.

PS I happen to like the ocean and beaches and fish and birds too. This f*cking blows on every level.

Christine – Gulf Coast

It is completely true that as goes oil (and gas) exploration and production in the Gulf so goes the economies of South Louisiana, Texas and Mississippi.

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Grammie says:
April 30, 2010 at 6:44 pm

“Oil exploration and production have been going on in the Gulf of Mexico for a 100 years with no major mishaps.”

http://www.google.com/#hl=en&tbo=p&tbs=tl%3A1%2Ctl_num%3A100&q=Gulf+of+Mexico+oil+spill+mishap+history&aq=f&aqi=&aql=&oq=&gs_rfai=&fp=b9676b40c82c6e39

I look forward to seeing what your self serving explanation of what “major” means.

Major enough to be a longstanding with serious prolonged consequences for the area. Major enough to garner national attention for long periods of time.

Katrina was a MAJOR disaster for the Gulf Coast. Camille was a major disaster for the Miss Gulf Coast. Betsy was a big disaster for South LA and Miss. All the dozens of others were dangerous and produced damage and loss of life (such as the minor hurricane in the 50′s in Cameron Parish) but aren’t even in the same league with Katrina.

That is the context I used as a life long, till recently) of South La and whose family’s economic well being was always heavily dependent on the oil industry. Those were problems, not anything approaching the status of this and the Exxon Valdez for Alaska.

The Gulf and its inhabitants have benefited enormously from the oil industry, including the commercial and recreational fishing industries. Unless things have changed drastically back home the vast majority of the people are in favor of the oil industry and its benefits to the area.

What’s your response to the other questions I raised in that comment?

I just passed a car accident on my way back from town. Should we take all the cars off the road?

Why was the swat team sent out? Could it have been terrorism and not the fault of the oil company? Could it have been environmentalists?

How come al gore isn’t out there personally mopping up the oil and washing birds?

“Why was the swat team sent out? Could it have been terrorism and not the fault of the oil company? Could it have been environmentalists?”

I heard that referenced in passing and thought it was a joke.

Where were they sent OS and do you have any citations or did you hear it somewhere?

For my good friend aka Grammie! :)

“Mr. Obama said SWAT teams were being dispatched to the Gulf to investigate oil rigs and said his administration is now working to determine the cause of the disaster.”

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/04/29/national/main6444311.shtml

Christine @ 6:41 pm:
Love Libs pretending to suddenly care about the South

Christine @ 6:54 pm
I HATE the fact that NOTHING in this country can happen w/o it being politicized. NOTHING. Now I’m going away before my head explodes.

Let me roughly paraphrase: If you’re a crass partisan, then shut the f*ck up about everyone being politically sold out. Stop complaining about how everything gets turned into a partisan every time something happens. And stop complaining everytime somebody mouths off in an intellectually bankrupt way somewhere in the world.

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First, I don’t agree with your correlation of natural disasters to man made collateral pollution. How about you tell me how many gallons of oil spilled equals a major impact on the wildlife and environment and how many gallons is an acceptable amount.

Your other question implies that we all want to be a modern economy that is necessarily based on carbon fuel.
Since I don’t agree with that your questions on that point are moot.

I feel a lot better now that 10 days later Obama finally got around to dispatching a lousy 2 planes to drop chemicals in the spill. Heck-of-a-job, Brownie!

I wouldn’t be surprised if he intentionally let it get this bad in order to have an excuse to ban offshore drilling.

Nacho says:
April 30, 2010 at 8:30 pm

“First, I don’t agree with your correlation of natural disasters to man made collateral pollution.

That was not a correlation, but rather an analogy of how do we quantify by description.

“How about you tell me how many gallons of oil spilled equals a major impact on the wildlife and environment and how many gallons is an acceptable amount.”

How many gallons, no. Where and what consequences of what length and to what degree of any damage not being contained or corrected is what I meant and stand by. You gave me a list. Now, if all those were truly disasters of a huge magnitude you should be able to point to one incident that, such as the Exxon Valdiz, that was front and center in the national spotlight for a prolonged period.

“Your other question implies that we all want to be a modern economy that is necessarily based on carbon fuel.
Since I don’t agree with that your questions on that point are moot.”

So, what is the viable replacement that you have in mind if we ever reach your idea of a desirable economy and way of life to replace our carbon based one.

That is what you are advocating, correct? So flesh it out for us and perhaps provide a few predictions of how and why it would be a more desirable construct.

I’m sure you are well aware of viable options. It is not a new argument.

Let’s just say we need to do now what we should have started to do in 1974.

Olby Sucks says:
April 30, 2010 at 8:15 pm

For my good friend aka Grammie! :

Thanks to my old friend RK. :)

This is all it said:

“Mr. Obama said SWAT teams were being dispatched to the Gulf to investigate oil rigs and said his administration is now working to determine the cause of the disaster. ”

I would think that someone somewhere in the news business would have tried to find out more. The only thing I got from googling were blogs speculating about it. How strange.

If the government suspects terrorism of some sort I would think that something more than this would have gotten out.

If an oil spill could NEVER be cleaned up, then I would be for stopping drilling offshore. The spill will be cleaned up. There will be a short term impact. The oil companies will pay. Move on.
Drill Baby Drill has a long term effect on all of us, and it is GOOD.

What’s nacho getting at, back to horse & buggy days?

Yeah, Cactus, you really got me. I was RESPONDING to Rick Sanchez and his gal pal giggling about a horrible disaster and somehow bringing Sarah Palin into it. I did not launch an unprovoked personal or political attack. Despicable people have been politicizing this disaster all week. So f*ck off and come up w/ an original thought.

Christine says:
April 30, 2010 at 9:31 pm
“Yeah, Cactus, you really got me. I was RESPONDING to Rick Sanchez and his gal pal giggling about a horrible disaster and somehow bringing Sarah Palin into it. I did not launch an unprovoked personal or political attack. Despicable people have been politicizing this disaster all week. So f*ck off and come up w/ an original thought.”

As a South Louisiana resident, I thank Christine for her straight talk. This should not be a political issue. People died, our economy will suffer no matter what and now holier than thou pundits may very well influence our lives simply to strengthen their ideological position.

this sites writers must have been recruited from the Huff Post!

Note it isnt B{alin who is now putting our coastline in danger, its obama himself who is the biggest threat to our shores and coasts.

Obama – who received massive amounts of money during the 2008 campaign from oil company executives (including two of his top bundlers – even though his campaign ran a completely disingenuous and misleading ad that said that they didnt take money from oil companies – which of course is illegal anyway) has gone against decades long Democratic policy and is now pushing to open offshore drilling off of much of our coastline including my home state Delaware. This is an outrage and from a phone call I had with one of his top staffers, I know that Biden, who has done much to oppose offshore drilling for decades, is very disappointed in this.

This is just another instance of Obama paying back his big contributors – just like he did with big banks, big pharm and big insurance. Obots are still so caught up in Obamas race and his suppossed “racist” enemies and a “racist” population to even see that this fellow is a wolf in our midst – selling away our greatest gifts in order to secure his own personal political survival. (think big oil execs will be giving to Obama 2012 huh?)

Nacho says:
April 30, 2010 at 9:03 pm

I’m sure you are well aware of viable options. It is not a new argument.

Let’s just say we need to do now what we should have started to do in 1974.

What are you for?

Is it an effort to replace carbon energy with such things as nuclear? You do know that that won’t fly b/c the green movement has blocked nuclear for decades.

Are you saying we switch to ethanol powered vehicles? That won’t work b/c we can’t maintain our food supply that way and besides it takes carbon based energy and lots of water to produce that and it creates a lot of air pollution.

Is it solar power and windmills. That can never replace carbon and can only be a part time solution.

So, what are you saying and what do you expect your solutions to produce in the way of an economy and standard of living for us. Carter’s 1974 energy policy did seem to be a real disaster to me so you probbably don’t mean that route.

Share your ideas with us. You might inspire some readers to join you!

Colby must not watch much CNN (seems not too many people do these days). To write this sentence:

Rarely does a viewer see on-air talent for the self-proclaimed agnostic CNN openly offer opinions about such topics, but both Sanchez and Yellin appeared to delight in pointing out how foolish the “drill baby drill” chanters now appear in hindsight

and then not put a tag after it is laughable.

Yellin and Sanchez give their opinions on air all the time, to pretend they don’t is one of the reasons CNN has no viewers. They claim “straight journalism” while they give opinions all the time.

Rogue-Comic~

Good luck to you. I went from being really pissed about the comments I’ve seen on Twitter, and here, about the oil spill, to being horrified by what’s to come. The results of this spill are going to be really ugly. From the environmental and wildlife carnage to the economic impact on the fishing and tourism industries etc. Not to mention the dead – RIP. And Louisiana is the last place that needs another disaster to recover from. This is depressing. Again, good luck :)

If the government suspects terrorism of some sort I would think that something more than this would have gotten out.

by Grammie

Grammie, we’re talking about an administration that refuses to use the word “terrorist.” An administration that is hiding important info from people that are investigating the ft. hood massacre. They want us to think terrorism doesn’t exist unless they’re white or Republican!

It’s shrill people like these why CNN is last.

In fact, do us all a favor and just shut the f*ck up, period.

Just like a consevative to try to deny those they disagree with their first amendment rights.

Hey, isn’t that what Hitler did? LOL

How is telling someone to “shut the f*ck up” denying them their first admentment rights? You do know the difference between the government and an individual, don’t you?

And no, Hitler, before he was the government said, “shut the f*ck up!” And then destroyed your property, beat you up and/or killed you. After he was the government he did the same.

Do you see the difference between saying “shut the f*ck up” and doing the rest that Hitler did?

Are you now going to type that its racism?

The oil spill is a tragedy and in a perfect world only clean fuels would be used. But until that perfect world happens, we unfortunately still need the oil. Accidents are going to happen with any type of fuel recovery. The best we can do for now is keep them to a minimum.

Deregulation. Profit over precaution. Plain and simple.

“The oil well spewing crude into the Gulf of Mexico didn’t have a remote-control shut-off switch used in two other major oil-producing nations as last-resort protection against underwater spills.

Transocean Ltd., which owned and operated the Deepwater Horizon and the shut-off valve, declined to comment on why a remote-control device wasn’t installed on the rig or to speculate on whether such a device might have stopped the spill. A BP spokesman said the company wouldn’t speculate on whether a remote control would have made a difference.”

Wall Street Journal
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704423504575212031417936798.html

This is shameful.

–Cobra

http://www.stopbigmedia.com/

Gordonblower writes:

“The spill will be cleaned up. There will be a short term impact. The oil companies will pay. Move on.”

Maybe you don’t get this. This isn’t an oil tanker like the Valdez with a “finite” amount of oil onboard. This is a hole in the ocean floor at a depth of 5000 ft, with no CLUE how much oil is down there. Your saying it’s gonna be cleaned up is wishful thinking, because that’s not the quotes coming out of the mouths of the experts on the scene.

I have a bad feeling that this will devastate more than just Louisiana.

–Cobra

DRILL BABY DRILL. There, I said it because I’m enough of a pragmatist to know that sometimes shit happens.

There is oil pouring out of the ocean floor in the South Pacific and it has been doing so for many years. There is no wishful thinking. The oil WILL be stopped. I have no doubt. The world will not end because of some oil coming out of the ocean floor.
Worry about something important. Obama CAN destroy our way of life with his left-wing agenda. He can do more damage than any oil spill.

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gordonbloyershow says:
May 1, 2010 at 11:18 pm

“Worry about something important.”

Where is Kenny Bania on this one?

Kenny is living in exile.

Stephanie Miller on Oil Spill: ‘Another Example that God is a Democrat’

Read more: http://newsbusters.org/blogs/tim-graham/2010/05/02/stephanie-miller-oil-spill-another-example-god-democrat#ixzz0mmyFZpcp

EVERY source of energy has it’s drawbacks, nuclear, water dams, wood fire, wind, coal, etc. Oil drilling is no different. Technology has to provide safeguards against catastrophe. We can’t go back to the caveman days, no nation could withstand that.
The poor people of Africa NEED a new form of energy too, there aren’t enough buffalo chips to burn for heat anymore Eskimos can’t find enough to eat even with the help of gas burning snowmobiles cause environmentalists won’t let them eat whale anymore.

Hello?

A corporation cuts corners to save money on oil exploration, and now entire INDUSTRIES in Fishing, Tourism are threatened by their negligence.

Why do posters here seem to hold Oil Companies with higher esteem than others?

–Cobra

Why do posters here seem to hold Oil Companies with higher esteem than others?

–Cobra

That’s just lefty interpretation, because we don’t think they are the absolute devil like your side does.

Some of you folks are seriously damaged. The oil accident is potentially devastating, but some one said “shit happens”? That’s awfully cavalier.

Once the cause is determined, then additional safety regimes have to be put in place, if any new off-shore drilling is to take place at all, and the existing wells have to be inspected and any safety issues have to be addressed—the same with coal.

While we need the carbon based energy at the moment, we do have to move towards cleaner sources. Let’s put proper safety features in place to reduce accidents, which will almost certainly happen, as there is no perfect world and let’s also put enough teeth in them to hold the energy companies to account.

“Drill baby drill” is utterly stupid and insipid.