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MM EDIT: this is for everyone who doesnt check the Post it, it post topic :) strubes already posted it there, but it was deserving of its own topic :)
 
yeah, grindspine stole it from my facebook and i stole it from strubes :lol


tetris one? i havent seen it, can you post it?
 
http://art.penny-arcade.com/photos/888884039_umVwa-L.jpg

Language warning. here's the Tetris solution.
 
Haha when I saw this thread I was like.."heyyyy wait a minute"...but it's nice that credit was given. :lol

Love all the comics this thing's gotten. As bad as it is, it's nice to be able to have a laugh. :)
 
On a more serious note, I listened to a radio show last week, and the guest that was on the show worked for BP since like the 70s, wrote a book about all this stuff, and has a finger on the pulse of what is going on. He stated why the valve broke, and it was an accident. Normal oil field, when drilled into, have a pressure about 1,000-1,500psi. The one in the Gulf was rated around 7,000psi. There is no metal on the planet that could withstand that kind of sudden pressure spike. He also listed the "other elements" that are leaching into the ocean, and how the federal government is thinking of closing up the crack (yes, it's not just a hole now, it's a big freaking crack in the mantle now) with a nuclear bomb. It's like fixing a leaky sink by burning down a house. I'll find the link and post it from youtube.
 
Yeah, the government just released an updated estimate saying that it was probably at least 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day that were leaking since day one. Which is way off their first estimate of 5,000 a day.
 
mastermario said:
Yeah, the government just released an updated estimate saying that it was probably at least 35,000 to 60,000 barrels per day that were leaking since day one. Which is way off their first estimate of 5,000 a day.
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Yeah the guy on the radio show said 4 million gallons. That's a crazy amount.
 
mariorulezman said:
well...why havent gas prices gone up that much??

actually theyve gone down.
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Give it time once they get the leaked stopped and the bulk of the oil cleaned so this is no longer front page news then acouple months after that they'll start recouping there loses by hosing us at the pump.
 
mariorulezman said:
well...why havent gas prices gone up that much??

actually theyve gone down.
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Because the 80% salt water in the new fuel is causing prices to go down. :lol

Actually, an oil field found in Russia is one reason why fuel prices haven't shot up. Supposedly it's bigger than all the fields in Saudi Arabia combined. The one in the gulf, if they get that under control, may be bigger than the one in Russia. There's also talk of an Alaska oil field being the biggest oil concentration on the planet. As long as Obama doesn't try to manipulate the oil industry and attempt to nationalize it, we'll be okay on prices.
 
mariorulezman said:
well...why havent gas prices gone up that much??

actually theyve gone down.
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Because this is just a single oil platform that was lost. It may be enough to cause an environmental catastrophe, but the amount of oil that is leaking into the gulf isn't enough to significantly effect oil or gas prices. It's a drop in the pan when you consider how much oil is produced worldwide.
 
Homicidal Cherry53 said:
Because this is just a single oil platform that was lost. It may be enough to cause an environmental catastrophe, but the amount of oil that is leaking into the gulf isn't enough to significantly effect oil or gas prices. It's a drop in the pan when you consider how much oil is produced worldwide.
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http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_presidents_oil_reserves_li.html

^ Article of interest. If this article is true, then the U.S has the ability to become 100% independent of foreign oil.
 
Dart said:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2010/06/the_presidents_oil_reserves_li.html

^ Article of interest. If this article is true, then the U.S has the ability to become 100% independent of foreign oil.
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The article is somewhat misleading. I went and read the original Kiplinger's article and it isn't just government policy that is the problem. Extracting from shales is only feasible (i.e. profitable, and given that oil companies are in the private sector, the bottom line cannot be ignored) under certain economic conditions and we lack the technology to reach some of the other oil reserves. The government is preventing some oil reserves from being tapped, but Uncle Sam is definitely not the only thing standing between us and an unlimited supply of oil.
 
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