Re: Spill, baby, spill

In article <hrmome$587$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, none@xxxxxxxx
says...
Lookout wrote:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_louisiana_oil_rig_explosion;_ylt=AtlJBMyoyUKLgWa1.QMCltus0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTN1bWxyYzI1BGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNDI5L3VzX2xvdWlzaWFuYV9vaWxfcmlnX2V4cGxvc2lvbgRjY29kZQNtb3N0cG9wdWxhcgRjcG9zAzEEcG9zAzIEcHQDaG9tZV9jb2tlBHNlYwN5bl90b3Bfc3RvcnkEc2xrA2d1bGZjb2FzdG9pbA--

Gulf Coast oil spill could eclipse Exxon Valdez

This is what you teabaggers wanted? Or is it just the conservatives
that wanted this?

No one wanted the spill (except perhaps you so you could crow about it),
but everyone needs the energy that is produced.

Consider the context before you make your rash judgments:

"...the size and number of oil spills from offshore oil rigs have
declined substantially over the past three decades."

"Prior to the Horizon's destruction, the last substantial spill from an
offshore rig was in 1969."

"...since 1991, oil tankers have still spilled three times as much oil
as offshore platforms and more than twice as much as pipelines."

"Of all the sources of petroleum released into the ocean, including
natural seeps of oil, offshore platforms put less oil into the ocean
than any other."

"...less than one-one thousandth of 1 percent of the oil produced in
U.S. state or federal waters has spilled."

"...even if the oil spilled from the Horizon eventually equals the
amount spilled by the infamous Exxon Valdez -- and it has so far leaked
less than 14 percent of that -- it will still amount to multiple times
less oil than spilled in any of the largest 35 spills from oil tankers
since the 1970s."

"There is no question that the Horizon's explosion and collapse is
terrible, or that steps should be taken to see that any correctable
errors made don't happen again. ... But, from the point of view of the
economy, national security and even environmental quality, halting new
oil and gas development because of this one isolated incident would be
an even worse disaster."

http://www.aolnews.com/opinion/article/opinion-dont-let-deepwater-horizon-deep-six-offshore-drilling/19460956

Well, now you have done it.
You gave him factually correct information that refutes his viewpoint.
Now, he will say some totally inane thing or ignore you all together.

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