vulcanhammer
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13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - Lessons From the Daily... · 0 replies · +1 points
Well, it seems that according to the Daily Kos, Research 2000 polling is as good as garbage. I guess 538 is going to have to adjust their rating of them. All the while Rasmussen keeps its sterling reputation and quality methods.
13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - Lessons From the Daily... · 0 replies · 0 points
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13 years ago @ All That Is Necessary... - Some Contrarian Though... · 0 replies · +1 points
"I don't think American oil is quite as plentiful as you suggest..."
Our reserves of natural gas are ENORMOUS and we have to drill to get to some of it. Drill, baby, drill.
BTW, where's FEMA been lately?
13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - What the Tea Party Mov... · 0 replies · +1 points
13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - "Drill, Baby, Dri... · 0 replies · +1 points
All the acoustic switch does is set off the blowout preventer remotely—that’s it. The most important piece of equipment is the blowout preventer. And for some reason, it hasn’t been activated even after attempts by subs have tried to do so manually. So having the acoustic switch may not have mattered. The decision not to mandate the use of acoustic switches was not done by the White House but by U.S. regulators because of reliability concerns. The U.K., which has a lot of off-shore oil rigs in the North Sea does not mandate the use of acoustic switches. We simply don’t know what happened to cause this accident. It is possible that it was something that engineers could not have foreseen and that any “fail safe” equipment could not have handled. It’s all unknown right now.
So yeah, blame Bush and adjust your tin foil hat. It’s all his fault.
13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - "Drill, Baby, Dri... · 1 reply · 0 points
Hundreds of thousands (maybe millions around the world) have died in automobile and airplane accidents (How many have died from falling bombs from airplanes?) nearly a hundred years and yet society has reasonable deemed the benefits of these advances far greater than their inherit risks. You, John, are one of those radical air heads that believes that you can get something for nothing while typing away at a machine made mostly by petroleum. Does that sound logical or even rational? Wake up. I’m sorry to break it you but your environmental utopia without oil is a sham pushed upon you by your public school teachers.
13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - "Drill, Baby, Dri... · 2 replies · 0 points
At least we seem to agree that the Toyota incident and the subsequent anger by customers was not due to “weak regulatory standards.”
13 years ago @ Red State Progressive - "Drill, Baby, Dri... · 7 replies · +1 points
Oil is utilized in some form in every stage of production for a constellation of goods. How are you going to make medical devices, medicine, fertilizer, parts for vehicles, etc. without petroleum? Our economy would come to a standstill without it.
There are almost 4,000 oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico that have been operating for years without an accident of this magnitude. This event is a clear outlier in an industry that has done a remarkable job with safety.
The next time an 18 wheeler pulls up with the food and goods that you need that makes your life comfortable and possible--thank oil.
13 years ago @ All That Is Necessary... - New Jersey Is "A Faile... · 0 replies · +1 points