Wow.... the amount of overhype on this thread is pathetic.

This leak is nothing like Deepwater Horizon. It sucks, yes, but is nothing near as bad as BP's mess.

I would go as far as to say that this wouldn't even be covered nationally if BP's spill hadn't taken place. The only conspiracy I can see is the one most of you have been duped with already, that government regulation is in any way a fix to a problem.

If I hear any more of this "if you disagree with me, your an agent" I am going to go ballistic. I find it sad that there seems to be an attitude that wants the spill to be worse in order to validate ones own limited world view.

In the immortal words of George Carlin, "The planet isn't going anywhere, we are!" The Earth has dealt with crazier stuff in its history. Humanity is hardly even noticeable compared to what it has been through. We have a long way to go if we expect to somehow be a threat to it.

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The real story is something that may never be told.

The real story is that BP's spill and this spill are going to be used to increase the power of government in the area of natural resources, and this will incidentally benefit groups like BP.

Its like the financial regulation that they have passed and will pass. It has nothing to do with the problem and is just there to settle the masses and stifle competition and transparency.

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I'm with those not buying this one. Obama just made another speech pushing Cap and Trade which is dead. He keeps trying to use the Gulf Spill to pass it and the spill is totally unrelated. How stupid does he think people are? Well, I guess many are that stupid

I smell one giant RAT here. This is to damn convenient considering his speech hit the news this morning. He is throwing the Right a bone in the form of eliminating Capital Gains taxes and giving tax breaks to small business to attempt to revive Cap and Trade. Cap and Trade will equal a 15% tax under disguise from the estimates I've seen and you can add 25% to your utility bills (and dead elderly people every winter). How many jobs you suppose that will kill? I'm betting 12% unemployment if it ever passes which thank god it won't. Sure will make all his buddies into overnight billionaires though.

Another spill is perfect and the fact it hit when it did is practically proof it happened under his orders. They only had to bribe a handful of people to pull this off. I think that is exactly what he has done, or should I say whoever he will blame if it gets out of the bag. He of course never does anything.

Originally posted by Just Wondering
this happens all the time in the gulf, you people are just hearing about it because of the BP incident, had it not been for the BP incident you would never have been the wiser nor would you have given a damm about some tug boat hitting an oil well in Louisiana.
go back to your normal lives of watching sports, reality tv and fighting over politics, the gulf was fine before you came along and will be fine long after you lose interest.
damm hippies.

Exactly...And the fact that this well is in only a few feet of water means it will be closed up very quickly, just like they have in the past. It's not a mile down like the "Deep Water Horizon" well.

It may be true that this adds "insult to injury", but other than that it wouldn't be a big deal as an isolated incident.

I wonder how many oil wells have been hit by tug boats in the past, and started leaking??

Yep, this has the whiff of corruption to me too. The story doesn't add up and the motive is clearly there. Suspect, very suspect.

Lies, lies and more lies. This could posssibly be the leak that Matt Simmons has been referring to. These false statements are only feeding our anger that we are feeling here on the coast. It is time to really start fighting back, but how?

Shouldn't a pipe 6 feet below the surface have a buoy or something to mark its position?

That does not look like oil leaking to me. That looks like some type of gas spewing out. Methane maybe?

Originally posted by Just Wondering
this happens all the time in the gulf, you people are just hearing about it because of the BP incident, had it not been for the BP incident you would never have been the wiser nor would you have given a damm about some tug boat hitting an oil well in Louisiana.
go back to your normal lives of watching sports, reality tv and fighting over politics, the gulf was fine before you came along and will be fine long after you lose interest.
damm hippies.

Just wanted to let you know I am not a "damn hippie" (oh, and it's spelled DAMN not DAMM.....second of all....I live in Louisiana and this does not happen "all the time". There are countless people here who have lost income and are losing their homes and everything, so how the hell can they just go back to their normal lives? I'm sure the women who lost their husbands and boyfriends in the explosion would LOVE to have their loved one back and go back to their "normal lives".....so in the future, you should think about that before saying something so callous and calling people names.

So... how long do you think before this mess gets cleaned? I give it a couple of weeks.

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