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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Knighty Tin who wrote (122492)5/7/2010 9:45:34 AM
From: Knighty Tin3 Recommendations  Read Replies (3) of 132070
 
I hope this dome thing works in the Gulf, but, if you wrote about something like that for a Sci Fi mag, they would reject your story as ridiculous. So, you trap the oil. What happens when the dome gets full of oil and it has nowhere to go? Why does it only trap 80% of the oil? You suck the oil through a straw and store it where? Only the first to words in the preceding sentence seem to make sense. Still, I hope I'm wrong.

Meanwhile, Governor Jindl of Louisiana seems to be waffling from his concept that states' rights mean the Fed leaves them alone to take care of their problems the way they want. He is asking for unprecedented monies from the Feds. States' rights only work during prosperous times when there are no problems. In other times it's "Send in the Marines! Now!"

The slick seems very slow in making its way to land. That's a good thing, but it seemed in a major hurry before.

The Congress wants to raise BP's liability to $10 billion. Say, what? Why is there any limit? If there is any reason for a company to go belly up, destroying the environment by ignoring safety regulations (with Dick Cheney's blessing) sounds like a reason.

Every politician in LA is in big oil's pocket. Ditto for Texas, though the slick doesn't seem to be heading this way.
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