Jul 12 2010

Good and bad news on the oil front.

(Promoted for futbol analysis… – promoted by buhdydharma )

Good news for BP, it was our yearly allotment of seafloor spew. The freak out occurred for two reasons.

1) It was a light year if this was our gift from the Gulf, not even enough to clump together to make tarballs.

2) Ships from the contaminated oil-slicked waters have been making port calls in Texas without first having their hulls cleaned. This is against the rules, but a little low on the priority list right now. Why, with that gusher of oil doing its best impression of Spindletop, but a mile under water.

On point two, I think we can rest assured that is how oil is getting on the upper Texas coast, because I know those skimmers have been porting in Galveston. This also goes a long way in explaining how oil was able to swim upstream. Rick Perry has agreed to allow BP to dump their Gulf waste into salt cave and injection wells. I don’t see how this could go wrong.

Especially being so close to aquifers. The rumor is, Rick Perry plans to use to sludge as hair gel, which is why he needed so much.

Anyhoo, the concern is now that since we got such little oil, the BP Spill might be sucking away pressure from the entire oil fields under the Gulf of Mexico. There are a lot of dead dinosaurs under there, they all got smacked by an asteroid.

This whole fiasco was a total Kid Icarus moment for global corporations, where their hubris in their technological reach lead to a great disaster. As high as Icarus flew, BP has gone down into the watery deeps of the Gulf of Mexico, both beyond reason.

And speaking of beyond reason, I cannot celebrate for España, because that was some of the ugliest futbol pretending to be the beautiful game.

 

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  1. but the conceded ugliness aside, I still think that Xavi is a genius.  And Iker Casillas deserves a nice, warm round of applause.  

    • Edger on July 12, 2010 at 04:44
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    RawStory

    Shrimpers who were exposed to a mixture of oil and Corexit dispersant in the Gulf of Mexico suffered severe symptoms such as muscle spasms, heart palpitations, headaches that last for weeks and bleeding from the rectum, according to a marine toxicologist who issued the warning Friday on a cable news network

    …

    The company responsible for producing the various Corexit formulas is Nalco, Co., which was created by former members of the boards of directors at BP and Exxon. Their product is essentially by the oil industry, for the oil industry. That’s why, even in the face of an alternative like Dispersit which is half as toxic as Corexit, Nalco’s product is still in much greater supply.

    …

    “It ruptures red blood cells, causes internal bleeding and liver and kidney damage,” Dr. Shaw said. “This stuff is so toxic — combined, it’s not the oil alone, it’s not the dispersant — the dispersed oil that still contains this stuff, it’s very, very toxic and it goes right through skin.”

    The claims would seem to echo a fellow toxicologist who described the effects of Corexit as the disruption of oil bilipid layers, which he called “the very basis of life.”

    “Each of us is made out of cells,” Dr. Chris Pincetich explained in a recent interview. “Those cells are nothing more than an oil layer surrounding our proteins and RNA and all the other molecules talking to each other. You put in a chemical that disrupts that basic biological structure and you are putting yourself at risk from umpteen effects.”

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    Sunday, July 11, 2010  Gulf of Mexico. photo NRL Monterey

    Certainly if those ships tried hard enough, they could go around it.  Besides, it looks so pretty and silvery when the sun hits it just so, translucent, like milk.

    On June 23, NOAA stopped issuing daily oil trajectory forecasts because the loop current changed and the Florida keys  were no longer at risk of getting oiled.

    http://www.travelagentcentral….



    NOAA is not certain how long the separation will last. The agency plans to resume production of offshore spill trajectory maps if needed.  

    http://oceanservice.noaa.gov/f…

    The circular swirl in the middle that isn’t going anywhere but acting as the center of this carousel ride, they named it after Benjamin Franklin.

    The winds are currently traveling in a clockwise direction around the Gulf, as are the water currents.  

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