Posts with the tag oil spill

New Orleans oil spill causes McCain to cancel event highlighting how safe drilling is

Mikeystyle — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:43:46 EDT

From JedReport:

Wed Jul 23

You can't make this stuff up

Update: He's not going, blaming the weather. Yeah, right. Smells like an oil spill to me.

So McCain is going to NOLA tomorrow to do an event to tout off-shore oil drilling, flying out to a rig on a helicopter, trying to be all Jack Bauer the oil man. His agenda: demonstrate how easy, safe, and important more offshore drilling is.

But there's a problem: today, on the eve of this stunt, there was a huge oil spill in NOLA:

The Coast Guard closed 29 miles of the Mississippi River at New Orleans after a 600-foot tanker and a barge loaded with fuel oil collided Wednesday, breaking the barge in half.

Nobody was injured, but more than 419,000 gallons of heavy, almost tar-like fuel oil spilled from the barge, forming a slick 12 miles long, said Lt. Cdr. Cheri Ben-Iesau, a Coast Guard spokeswoman.

I mean seriously -- could things possibly be going more wrong for this guy? I'd say he was the unluckiest guy in the world, but the truth of the matter is that you make your own luck.

http://www.jedreport.com/2008/07/you-cant-make-t.html

McCain Cancels Jindal Visit Because of Oil Spill

Bruce Moses — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 20:07:58 EDT

John McCain was planning to visit Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal today in New Orleans but canceled due to the weather. This struck me as odd since Hurricane Dolly is moving inland in South Texas, hundreds of miles away, and is having absolutely no effect in Louisiana. Then I read about an enormous oil spill that occurred on the Mississippi River this morning, closing more than 30 miles of river down to the mouth for cleanup. What a gaffe! These two have been pushing to open our coasts up to new offshore drilling and have been insisting how significant oil spills never happen!

Please read this important Huffington Post article by Karen Dalton-Beninato, it was largely missed by the MSN today. http://www.huffingtonpost.com/karen-daltonbeninato/oil-of-delay-mccain-cance_b_114620.html

His Boy Enron update: Exxon Mobil Fights to further Lower Valdez Spill Damages Settlement 20 Years Later

Leo — Thu, 06 Mar 2008 21:15:40 EST

His Boy Enron update: (originally Posted on MySpace Feb 28th)

Exxon Mobil yesterday continued it's fight to lower the $2.5B award, (which accompanied their conviction), for the Valdez oil spill- 'members that-back-20-years what might warrant-a-penalty?'

The current award equals about three weeks of Exxon's current net profits.

Exxon Mobil: "You mean we might have to pay $5B every time we have a spill that destroys 1100 miles of beautiful coastline along with all the fish/fishing industry...EVERYTIME!??! That's expensive man!"

Checkit: I can't believe Exxon doesn't realize what a great deal this is! Prince William Sound was 1,100 miles of contaminated coastline. Almost a perfect 1000 mile cost benchmark which we'll estimate a worst-case scenario of $5B. Including interest.

$5B per each cataclysmic oil-spill-event!? Hell! Give me half-a-dozen!

It only equivocates to 66.6% of ONE years-current-net-profits! Exxon Mobil still pockets $16.8B!!! And liberals say that self-regulation doesn't work!

Horse-feathers!