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A friend of mine came up with an idea using a seperator.
Everyone should go out on a boat, start sucking up the water and oil, seperate the oil into containers, and sell it. It really could be a gold mine if done right.
Before you can read this, a thousand more gallons of crude spews into the gulf!
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A friend of mine came up with an idea using a seperator.
Everyone should go out on a boat, start sucking up the water and oil, seperate the oil into containers, and sell it. It really could be a gold mine if done right.
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Oh... I can see those who have stated as such, but there are about 1000 complaints every time someone does so. Thus, no need for any additional piling on.
As for the clean up... the very fact that there is little that can be done about capping if anything ADDS to the inept decision to wait so long to get every available proven technology on site as soon as possible to get the oil out of the water.
The Dutch (among others) have proven expertise in the clean up with their arms... yet it took over a month to make the request to get them here. Had equipment such as that been on hand within the first week and up and running in the second, then they could have done a better job of removing it. Had they brought down all of the boom that was offered from the start and deployed it better, they also could have done a better job containing the spill.
Had they not decided to keep the sand berms construction with JUST American companies and instead brought in those foreign companies who could produce with greater capacity... that too would have likely helped.
That said, there is little they could have done to stop/slow the pace of the spill. Which is why it was all the more important to have cleaning and containment equipment on hand in as much mass as possible.
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But Onceler, he's not expected to invent the technology to stop the leak...nonono...Righties expect Obama to don a diving mask and snorkel, dive down OVER ONE MILE and seal the leak with his heat vision!
They expect nothing less, and if Obama gives them anything less, they'll keep calling him the names we've read over the past week.
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see toppys reply....
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Oh, and before somebody takes it too seriously, this is tongue in cheek, and a poor twist on what another poster kept posting just a few weeks ago.
Gulf Oil Spill Update: What's All This Business About the Jones Act?
Fox News' Brian Wilson made some waves yesterday with a post arguing that a 90-year-old law may be impeding the cleanup efforts in the Gulf oil spill.
The Jones Act, enacted in 1920, places restrictions on certain shipborne activities in U.S. waters to boats built in the U.S. and operated by American workers. Foreign Policy magazine noted last month that a number of nations had offered to help contain the spill by sending over skimmer ships, but US officials turned the offers down, saying thanks, but they could handle the spill on their own. It was unclear what was going on at the time, but politicians and commentators on both sides of the partisan divide are now wondering whether the Jones Act is behind the refusal.
During Katrina, Bush waived the act, writes Wilson, yet Obama has yet to do so for the Gulf crisis -- which some speculate has to do with Obama's support for labor unions, which benefit from the Jones Act in non-crisis times. The administration and the Coast Guard have responded by saying they've accepted help from a number of nations in terms of equipment, including 3,000 meters of containment boom from Canada, and two oil skimmers from Mexico. But those are all operated from U.S. ships, by American workers. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told Fox, "If there is the need for any type of waiver, that would obviously be granted. But, we've not had that problem thus far."
Fox News' Brian Wilson made some waves yesterday with a post arguing that a 90-year-old law may be impeding the cleanup efforts in the Gulf oil spill.
The Jones Act, enacted in 1920, places restrictions on certain shipborne activities in U.S. waters to boats built in the U.S. and operated by American workers. Foreign Policy magazine noted last month that a number of nations had offered to help contain the spill by sending over skimmer ships, but US officials turned the offers down, saying thanks, but they could handle the spill on their own. It was unclear what was going on at the time, but politicians and commentators on both sides of the partisan divide are now wondering whether the Jones Act is behind the refusal.
During Katrina, Bush waived the act, writes Wilson, yet Obama has yet to do so for the Gulf crisis -- which some speculate has to do with Obama's support for labor unions, which benefit from the Jones Act in non-crisis times. The administration and the Coast Guard have responded by saying they've accepted help from a number of nations in terms of equipment, including 3,000 meters of containment boom from Canada, and two oil skimmers from Mexico. But those are all operated from U.S. ships, by American workers. White House spokesman Robert Gibbs told Fox, "If there is the need for any type of waiver, that would obviously be granted. But, we've not had that problem thus far."
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and just like i said previously, onceler will fail to mention the democrats in charge and ONLY mention bush until called on it...he doesn't blame them, he only gives lip service to it when called on it
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but ass kicking kicks ass!
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Yurtsie, Yurtsie, Yurtsie - you're just like bravo. Don't you know that the same could be said of you & bringing up Bush?
I bet you'll deny that, Yurtsie! "Oh, no, I'm so super-objective - I take righties and lefties to task all of the time!"
LOL LOL LOL
Yaaaay. More "They did it too!"Board police!
Yurtsie, Yurtsie, Yurtsie - you're just like bravo. Don't you know that the same could be said of you & bringing up Bush?
I bet you'll deny that, Yurtsie! "Oh, no, I'm so super-objective - I take righties and lefties to task all of the time!"
LOL LOL LOL
I don't let my 6 year old get away with that sorry excuse.
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Really? That's your issue? Yurtsie hops on the thread, makes a bee-line for one of my first responses - one where I was asked SPECIFICALLY about the Bush/Obama, Katrina/BP comparison - and proclaims that, in the course of that topic (again, about the Bush/Obama comparison), I'm supposed to point out that "Oh, and Roy Nagin sucked too."
But that's what you hone in on. Speaks much more about you than it does me. Specifically, it tells me that you didn't like being called "Beckocles" today.
I'll have to remember that.
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Board police!
Yurtsie, Yurtsie, Yurtsie - you're just like bravo. Don't you know that the same could be said of you & bringing up Bush?
I bet you'll deny that, Yurtsie! "Oh, no, I'm so super-objective - I take righties and lefties to task all of the time!"
LOL LOL LOL
translation:
i have an obsessed crush on yurt, so much that i have to lovingly call him my favorite kinky name of yurtsie over and over and over and over....oh...and btw...yurt is actual right, so i will just deflect with my usual bullshit rather than address any substance
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Nah, I wish I was as financially successful as Beck. And while he's hyperbolic (from what I've seen) his opinions are not usually at odds with mine, sometime but not usually. I'm cool with it.
It does remind me of Herr Doktor though, he'd throw a fit when I called him that...
Just last week you were saying it was cool because as much oil seaps out of the sea floor naturally every year.