The Gulf Oil Spill: a perspective

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Yes, many are acting as if it's the worst thing in the world. It's not even the worst thing in the Gulf.

He esimated higher because folks are unsure, and he knew morons like you would criticize the 5,000/day estimates.
 
Wow, do you have academic tourettes where you just through fragments of arguments out there to make yourself appear pseudo-intellectual?
 
Not the first time I have seen this graph. Appears to be credible using the criteria they have outlined.
 
If McCain was in office, the criticism against Big Oil and drilling would be the exact same from the left, and Rush would be saying the exact same thing about the size of the spill.

His thoughts about how bad it is for the Pres would only depend on how McCain handled himself during the disaster, and that you cannot predict.
 
In what sense, that the oil spill isn't that bad? That's his opinion. It's very easy for him to make a relativistic statement like that. It isn't that bad for his fat ass... what about the people directly affected?

He definitely wants to rub in that it's bad for Obama, which shows that Rush doesn't give a fuck about the gulf coast, and is only concerned with being the demagogue that he is. In a moral sense, he is very wrong.
 
The main difference is that the 1979 spill was far bigger and covered far more coastline.

While this spill is bad, perspective means realizing that it's much much smaller than previous spills that only did temporary damage and were cleaned up, just as this one will be.



Instead though, drama queens want to make this one out to be "the worst" and "end of the world" and will destroy all it touches forever!!!!
 
The joys of moving stock from one company to another when there is an event like this.
 
It's pretty damn far up on the list.

So he made another at best estimate... which is no better than the 5,000 a day estimate, because it does not give even close to an accurate estimate. It's a fucking guess.
 
I don't know, why don't you go ask all the Democrat sackriders who are now all over his ass for "doing nothing".

The people that are bitching the loudest are from the left that supported him.
Maureen Dowd did a good job, John Stewart did too, Carville, the list is long and growing.
So if you have a problem with people bitching, you need to start with your own party and his supporters first.
 
No. NO. NO.

1)the earth does not "clean itself" as a rule. for some things, yes. but for soil contaminants? no. esp. not petroleum contaminated soils. hey, why would there be superfund sites if the earth cleaned itself?

2) you can still find oil in Alaska -- simply dig a few inches.

also, see here:

http://news.oneindia.in/2010/04/15/exxonvaldez-spill-still-affecting-alaskan-wildlife.html

3) this creates problems for the marshlands because rather than an empty beach without any vegetation, you are dealing with grasses and stuff that are needed for the ecosystem to stay alive. all kinds of species will be burying eggs in contaminated soil if the oil in the marshes linger.

the difference between here and Alaska is.....you don't eat food that comes from the beach in Alaska. there were lots of yummy treats from Louisiana.
 
Interestingly it took about 5 yrs for the beaches in TX to become completely clean.
 
Rush might want to update that...even at the low estimate of 15,000 barrels per day you're talking 32 million gallons.

Though that estimate is probably wrong because the leak looks worse and they're collecting 15,000 barrels/day as it continues to leak.
The rate started at 5,000 went to 10,000, then 15,000....all of those seem wrong now. Conservative estimates keep going up last I saw was ~25,000 barrels/day....but that's even hard to believe with how much it keeps doubling and tripling the original estimates as well as other potential leak points.

The high end estimate is up to 250,000 barrels per day....which would be the largest bar on the graph to if you calculated it to date.

Let's say a realistic amount is somewhere between 25,000 and 50,000 barrels per day. Through the 50 days we've seen so far...that would be between 52.5 and 105 million gallons...that would mean it's inching closer to the largest rig spill ever.
 
In a relative sense...relative to other spills in the past that the people affected directly by the spills have lived through.

He cares. If you actually listened to the context (since you obviously care about context even if I don't understand yours) of his statements, you'll see that he truly cares, particularly since he lives on the Atlantic coast and the threat of oil seeing those beaches is increasing by the day.
 
gtfoh..limbaugh blamed everyone BUT the federal government for katrina. And as far as BP is concerned early on he blamed the explosion on leftist ecoterrorism.. you know and I know that if a republican president was in office limbaugh would be playing this down big time
 
5,000/day is at best...15,000 is closer to at worst. How can more oil be another at best when it's 3x worse than the current at best?
 
The data appears to be accurate ... so yes, I guess you have to now admit that rushlimbaugh.com is a credible source.
 
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