{"id":4582,"date":"2010-05-17T21:29:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:29:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.candlelightstories.com\/?p=4582"},"modified":"2010-05-17T21:31:17","modified_gmt":"2010-05-18T04:31:17","slug":"bp-and-u-s-are-hiding-something-in-gulf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/candlelightstories.com\/Blog\/2010\/05\/17\/bp-and-u-s-are-hiding-something-in-gulf\/","title":{"rendered":"BP and U.S. are Hiding Something in Gulf"},"content":{"rendered":"
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That’s a 21-inch pipe blowing oil and gas into the Gulf of Mexico. It’s 5,000 feet underwater and it’s a doomsday hole. There’s something very strange about the information coming out of the Gulf oil spill. It’s minimal. Some scientists who have technology for precisely measuring the rate of flow from the pipe are being turned away from the spill area by BP and the United States government. BP didn’t even want the video to get released because they didn’t want anyone to know how much oil was leaking. They are still saying that knowing how much oil is coming out is irrelevant. Really? Some experts are trying to warn people that over 75 million gallons of oil have already poured into the Gulf waters. 75 million. That’s almost seven times the Exxon Valdez spill already.<\/p>\n

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What happens when you spill all that oil into an ocean? Everything dies. It’s a blanket of black poisonous death.<\/p>\n

For the next few decades at least, if you order seafood at a restaurant that may have been caught in the Gulf of Mexico, you are either very brave or very stupid. The first thing I’m going to ask about seafood at the market or a restaurant is, ‘Where does this come from?’ You better believe it. The oil spill is loaded with poisons like benzene. The Gulf is turning into a puddle of death. Thanks to a multi-national corporation, British Petroleum. In fact, BP is telling workers hired to help with cleanup and containment not to worry about the foul petroleum odors, headaches, and nausea they are suffering out on the water. BP wants them to think it’s all perfectly ok<\/a>. It’s not. Even the cleanup chemicals and oil dispersants contain hazardous chemicals<\/a>. I would not set foot anywhere near the Gulf spill without breathing gear. Remember what the U.S. EPA did right after the September 11 World Trade Center attacks? They told all the rescue workers at ground zero that the air was safe to breath. Those workers are now dropping dead. There are smart heroes and there are dumb heroes.<\/p>\n

If you think Mr. Obama is just a little bit more forthright than Mr. Bush was, you better think again and think fast if you are down there on the Gulf.\u00a0 Invite our President on down to spend a week on a fishing boat dropping oil booms in front of that slick.\u00a0 He’ll tell you he has dinner plans.<\/p>\n

But there’s something more than this that is being hidden by BP and the U.S.\u00a0 I think it might have to do with the other 4,000 or so rigs in the Gulf.\u00a0 Perhaps they know that BP got away with drilling without any real engineering that would prevent a disaster underwater.\u00a0 Do you really think there was a ‘blowout preventer’ down there?\u00a0 Do you really think that any of the other oil rigs have these ‘preventers?’\u00a0 What if several wells have catastrophic failures?\u00a0 What if there are many wells that are just time bombs out of sight out of mind?<\/p>\n

Where is the U.S. military?\u00a0 Why are they not down there verifying what this British Petroleum company is telling us?\u00a0 Are they unable to?\u00a0 Why would that be?\u00a0 Why would a president of the United States believe what he was being told by an oil company?\u00a0 Don’t these companies lie?\u00a0 Don’t they commit crimes?\u00a0 We hear strange comments from U.S. government sources about supper-duper secret gatherings of the world’s best scientists and engineers working on this spill problem.\u00a0 Sounds like a script from a fifties science fiction film.\u00a0 Doesn’t sound real.\u00a0 Let’s see this committee of scientists, Mr. Obama.\u00a0 Produce them for us.\u00a0 We’re all wondering which scientists you are talking about.\u00a0 Is Captain Kirk involved too?<\/p>\n

The United States and BP were totally unprepared for every part of this disaster.\u00a0 They had no plans, no knowledge of what actions to take, no backups, no skills, no equipment, and possibly no ‘blowout preventers’ at all.\u00a0 Nothing.\u00a0 This is scary.\u00a0 But these things never work just in a single area.\u00a0 Let’s expand this sheer incompetence and total lack of preparedness into another area altogether.\u00a0 The nuclear area.<\/p>\n

It is my guess, based on my observation of the reaction to the Gulf spill, that we are just as incapable of preventing a massive launch of nuclear weapons as we are at preventing a massive oil spill.\u00a0 I would be willing to bet that a nuclear accident beyond anyone’s ability to control is just a hair’s breadth away.\u00a0 Because the ‘launch preventer’ will undoubtedly and inexplicably fail.\u00a0 What BP and the U.S. government don’t want you to know is just how close to the bleeding edge of incompetence everything really is.\u00a0 Companies like BP aren’t interested in being safe.\u00a0 They are interested in being rich<\/a>.<\/p>\n

BP will pay Obama his allowance and he’ll go home happy.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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