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05-13-2010, 07:15 PM
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#26 | | I WANT MY 10 YEARS BACK FROM RS.net!
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how often does something like this happen? (not oil tanker leak but oil rig?)
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05-13-2010, 08:39 PM
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#27 | | Banned (ABWS)
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I hope out of all this people will finally WAKE UP and realize that our oil addicted-way-of-life is wack. Society needs to do everything it can to move towards a post-oil world by seriously investing in public transportation, renewable energies, increasing energy efficiency, increasing population density etc.
+1 for increasing the carbon tax (as long as we get an equal rebate on our income tax)
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05-13-2010, 08:40 PM
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#28 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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That's a lot of friggin' oil pouring out into the gulf. Bye bye animals =(
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05-13-2010, 09:30 PM
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#29 | | I have named my kids VIC and VLS
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there is no amount of money BP can put forward to fix this problem or even come close
today on the news they said "this spill is now 1/4 the amount of the exxon valdez"
i thought it was already worse than the Valdez like last week?..
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05-13-2010, 10:22 PM
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05-13-2010, 10:33 PM
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#31 | | Rs has made me the man i am today!
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In the newspapers and online (such as bbc news) the reports only say about 5000 barrels/day are leaking out. How can this guy be saying more than 200,000 barrels/day? If this guy is right, or at least closer to the actual number, why haven't any of the news companies picked up on it? Especially if BP told the U.S. gov't that a spill of 165,000 barrels/day wouldn't reach the shorelines. How could they possibly say that a 5000 barrel/day spill is reaching shore?
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05-13-2010, 10:50 PM
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#32 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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Poor animals that have to live through that oil.
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05-13-2010, 11:10 PM
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Originally Posted by Amuse  Poor animals that have to die from that oil. | fixed.  | |
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05-13-2010, 11:39 PM
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#34 | | resident Oil Guru
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FYI, Exxon Valdez only ranks as the 12th largest oil spill.
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05-14-2010, 10:48 AM
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#35 | | Media Officer / MOD
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05-14-2010, 10:58 AM
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#36 | | SFICC-03*
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Originally Posted by 91LS-VTak In the newspapers and online (such as bbc news) the reports only say about 5000 barrels/day are leaking out. How can this guy be saying more than 200,000 barrels/day? If this guy is right, or at least closer to the actual number, why haven't any of the news companies picked up on it? Especially if BP told the U.S. gov't that a spill of 165,000 barrels/day wouldn't reach the shorelines. How could they possibly say that a 5000 barrel/day spill is reaching shore? | 5000 a day is probably very conservative.
considering bp has hardly released any pictures of the actual leak, its just a figure that they're going by to keep the public happy.
at first they said 1000 a day.. .then it was changed to 5000.
i wouldnt be surprised if it were more like 30-40,000+ but who knows for now.
i think bp is trying to keep the # conservative because they're hoping to solve the prob before the truth has to come out.
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05-14-2010, 11:11 AM
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#37 | | 14 dolla balla aint got nothing on me!
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damn... poor animals
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05-14-2010, 11:35 AM
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#38 | | Banned (BBM)
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damn that is simply insane, the ocean is totally polluted
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05-14-2010, 02:27 PM
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#39 | | RS has made me the bitter person i am today!
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What I don't understand is that when the Exxon Valdez Tanker capsized, it was on the new 24/7 it was media overload, pictures of birds covered in oil, on a daily basis.
This oil leak might be the largest in history, yet the media is barely touching it?
What a strange shift the world has turned in the last decade.
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05-14-2010, 02:34 PM
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#40 | | Prince of the Apes
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Sad thing is, we're going to get drilled up the nuts for gas prices, even though we dont get oil from the states.
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05-14-2010, 02:37 PM
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#41 | | To me, there is the Internet and there is RS
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Originally Posted by mikemhg What I don't understand is that when the Exxon Valdez Tanker capsized, it was on the new 24/7 it was media overload, pictures of birds covered in oil, on a daily basis.
This oil leak might be the largest in history, yet the media is barely touching it?
What a strange shift the world has turned in the last decade. | Because oil has not hit the shores and covered animals as hard as like Exxon spill did. It will but it hasn't yet.
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05-14-2010, 04:13 PM
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#42 | | Revscene.net has a homepage?!
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We are all to blame for this. If you do anything which requires oil (basically everything) then you are part to blame... I say "you" loosely though because I have a car and etc as well.
And to think the world almost didn't use oil 100 years ago. Tesla. Nothing makes me more angry than something like this. WE DO NOT NEED OIL, its just rammed down our throats and apparently there is no "alternative" solution. BULLSHIT. Its going to be the end of us.
ps - Running out of oil my ass... Look how much is coming out of one well.
Sorry for ranting just pissed about this.
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05-14-2010, 04:41 PM
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#43 | | Willing to sell body for a few minutes on RS
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bye bye wild life for louisiana
well at lest they will still have there hot sauce
still in shock that is has not been plugged yet
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05-15-2010, 01:51 AM
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#44 | | My homepage has been set to RS
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you wonder how many of those oil wells have faulty cut off valves.
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05-15-2010, 03:59 AM
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#45 | | Banned (ABWS)
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so is BP still going to run after this accident? or would it be bankrupted?
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05-15-2010, 08:04 AM
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#46 | | resident Oil Guru
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Originally Posted by goo3 you wonder how many of those oil wells have faulty cut off valves. | You can be sure that after this incident, every single ring is working overtime to ensure their safety valves are 100% operational.
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05-15-2010, 08:07 AM
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#47 | | resident Oil Guru
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Originally Posted by mikemhg What I don't understand is that when the Exxon Valdez Tanker capsized, it was on the new 24/7 it was media overload, pictures of birds covered in oil, on a daily basis.
This oil leak might be the largest in history, yet the media is barely touching it?
What a strange shift the world has turned in the last decade. | People don't want to see sad images. They want to keep on driving their car. So, they'll briefly see some images of oils covered in oil.. and go "Oh that's sad.", then wait for engineers/volunteers to clean up this spill, and then down the road another spill happens and the whole thing happens again.
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05-15-2010, 08:21 AM
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#48 | | Need my Daily Fix of RS
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sadly the world cannot live without oil right now....but for the past week friends and i have been taking the transit/bike/walk to give awareness to others about the environmental issues in the gulf of Mexico.
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05-15-2010, 09:39 AM
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#49 | | reads most threads with his pants around his ankles, especially in the Forced Induction forum.
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Originally Posted by turb0fr3ak sadly the world cannot live without oil right now....but for the past week friends and i have been taking the transit/bike/walk to give awareness to others about the environmental issues in the gulf of Mexico. | good luck with the transit system in vancouver you will quit in 1 week. Is ok if you are going to work on the skytrain during rush hour but for going out it is uesless. Waiting 30mins for a bus? Skytrain having issue every week? yea those are pretty normal in our transit system.
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05-15-2010, 10:01 AM
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#50 | | I don't get it
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this is the perfect example as to why there is NO justification to offshore drilling. are we going to learn? not necessarily. fucking tragic..
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