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Originally Posted by blindNsect
Truthfully, the only reason Katrina is a big deal is because Dems made it so.
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By implying that the death associated with Hurricane Katrina are "no big deal" you have posted what has to be just about the most idiotic thing I've ever seen on this board. 3,000 people in New York and Washington, SD.C. are killed by the 9/11 surprise attacks and the country looses it's collective mind. 4,000 people are killed as a direct result of the destruction brought on by a hurricane that was predicted decades ago and track for over a week before it hit...and you seriously think that the impact of this is nothing more than political hype whipped up by the Democratic party?
I've gone into a great amount of detail with this subject
in the past on another board, so I won't bore everyone with what I had to say then. However, even a small amount of reading on that hurricane, including the long-term economic and ecological impact, should have been enough to cause you to refrain from such a display of ignorance.
Sorry for the flame, folks, but that level of idiocy really chaps my hide.
Turning back to the topic at hand, it would seem BP's original estimates on the rate of oil flow from the ruptured pipeline were, to put it mildly, ridiculously low. A few days ago, I ran across this article from CBS news:
1 Month Later, Numbers Just Get Worse for Gulf
Here's a excerpt from the article:
"....But one of the persistent storylines is the huge discrepancy between BP's estimate of the amount of oil flowing into the Gulf and those of independent scientists. Since the April 20 explosion, BP officials placed the flow rate at 5,000 barrels a day, or 210,000 gallons - a figure accepted by the government and widely reported as accurate. Those estimates put the total amount of oil spilt into the Gulf at around 6 million gallons.
However, after BP succumbed to pressure to release video footage of the blown-out well, those numbers have fallen under intense scrutiny. Steve Wereley, a mechanical engineer at Purdue University in Indiana, told The Associated Press that he is sticking with his estimate that 3.9 million gallons a day is spewing from two leaks.
"I don't see any scenario where (BP's) numbers would be accurate," he said at a congressional hearing Wednesday.
His estimate of the amount leaked to date, which he calls conservative and says has a margin of error of plus or minus 20 percent, is 126 million gallons - or more than 11 times the total leaked from the Exxon Valdez disaster in 1989..."
That's right; after four weeks experts (and no, this guy from Purdue isn't the only one) estimate this disaster is already 11 times worse than the Exxon Valdez oil spill...and we're looking at a minimum of 4-6 more weeks before they can cap this thing.
Saying that this spill is "big", or comparing it to those slurry accidents doesn't do justice to the level of pollution this region of the country is facing. This thing already dwarfs any other oil-related incident in human history, and we aren't even halfway done with it.
- Heretic