Oil Slick Stuff

Sort by newest Sort by date
JimmyJoe said:
Hummer's are the reason I won't take to the street on my bike. The hummer owners have weird philosophies. It's all me me me, my street. Bored by it. Why don't they make hummer's shell using hemp. Not that would be interesting. :D
Click to expand...

Seems you've been smoking your hemp already..can't form a single coherent sentence either huh?:suspicious:


Contrary to you and the rest of the treehugging leaflickers many misinformed beliefs..Most Hummers and their owners are street friendly and serve the public well http://ga-ie.facebook.com/note.php?note_id=90819414123

..here are a few pictures of my friends enjoying OFFRoading, no streets here and unfortunately, no leaflickers to run over either..

http://s182.photobucket.com/albums/x29/mfish6639/Anza%20Borrego%20Hummer%20Run%205-15-10/

 
Not liking 4wheeling is Un-American!!:cool::laugh:
How about 4Runners are they OK?
 
nnuut said:
Not liking 4wheeling is Un-American!!:cool::laugh:
How about 4Runners are they OK?
Click to expand...
Jeeps, Land Rovers, 4Runners are all comrades of the trail..everyone helps everyone;)

My apologies for veering off topic here Norm...

Gas prices still holding at $2.59..in spite of the dramatic decline in oil prices...Greedy bastards!!
 
Not from what someone stated previous. For he wanted to run me over with his hummer while I would be riding my bike. Doesn't sound like a kind hummer driver to me. How long do I have to follow a strain of thought for some people? I've had to do it all my life. I think I'll just start talking like those for which I've had to provide focus. Maybe, I'll just start being 'short' with people. Using this offensive strategy, then they would think before posting about simple matters such as misspellings (but thanks for letting me know). Then maybe they could put forward the effort to think about using fewer oil products, which is really the 'engulfing' topic at hand. So let me get to the point. Is there a way that we could all get past the old thought processes that we've use in previous years. Could we state something new and refreshing, perhaps something about improving the environment so that we can all benefit. If people can do that, well, NOW that would be interesting. Cheesh, the next thing you know, people on this forum will be saying is that there is such a thing as chemtrails. Well, I think since there are fewer hummer drivers around these days, maybe there is a chance for social improvement. Maybe we could occasionally use bikes or walk to get to grocery stores in the future. If I meet you along the way maybe we'll meet as friends.
 
Last edited:
Hey JimmyJoe-

Tread lightly- Buster's a Hummer driver but he's an ok guy generally. He's out in oil country, so you can't blame him too much. Gasoline in his part of the country is always 30 cents less a gallon than most of the rest of us anyway. Goes with the territory- they like to drink that stuff.

Maybe it's the fumes from the derricks that does it, but Buster is just learning that there is more to life that fast cars and 4 wheel drive. Let's be gentle, ok? He usually doesn't knock off more than a couple of two-wheeler's a year. He's generally a fun loving guy- I'll cut him a bit of slack and call it good, ok.

Thanks
 
I hear you, James. I need to be reeled in every now and then. Buster's ok, he's backed me up on occasion. If I lived out in the country I'd probably own a big sized truck. Probably have to.

Oil spill has got me talking way outside myself.
 
Attaboy.

Put the computer down, close out the pictures of the tar balls on the beach, and the 10 X 4 X 3 mile underwater oil plume, and just back away slowly. Nothing you or I can do tonight is going to save the dolphins that will perish tonight, nor the oyster beds. It is what it is.

The thing that will be different, is that when all is said and done, when all the oil washes up on the beach, when all the hundreds and hundreds of miles of beaches are fouled- we'll at least be able to look them straight in the eye, and say- Hey, isn't there a better way to do this? Isn't there an alternative?


Public awareness of alternatives is the first step. Start looking and learning about alternatives, because America will never be the same when this one is done.

Santa Barbara changed the nation in January of 1969. The result was the EPA, and a ban on off-shore in California. It's amazing to read what happened in Santa Barbara. Because you can almost read the same thing, word for word, about this one.

http://www.geog.ucsb.edu/~jeff/sb_69oilspill/69oilspill_articles2.html

Except at Santa Barbara, they were able to cap it in 11 days.

This one isn't going to get capped anytime soon. In fact, it may be months, and months, and months, before they are able to cap it.

Santa Barbara was 200,000 gallons over 11 days. That's about 5,000 barrels. In 11 days.

The Gulf blowout is far, far larger than that one. At LEAST 5,000 barrels A DAY, and now they are saying it could be ten times that amount. EVERY DAY.


This one is going to be a bad, bad, bad one for years.
 
The beginning of the end!
The Governmental response to this spill will eventually Stop off shore exploration for Oil and Gas. When the world supply drops due to this Oil SLICK the prices are going to accelerate in a manner we have never seen before. This will result in a MEGA INFLATION and cast the last straw on the USA's financial back. Brace yourself It looks like the Global Warming crowd may get their way, but sometimes to you get what you want is not what you need and will do more harm than good. Replace Oil, fine but not so fast we are NOT ready, timing is everything.:cool:

Spill Scrambles Arctic Drilling Plans
by Jim Carlton
|
The Wall Street Journal
|
Monday, May 17, 2010

Plans by Royal Dutch Shell to begin exploratory oil drilling in the Arctic Ocean this summer are drawing increased scrutiny in the wake of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?hpf=1&a_id=93405
 
Last edited:
Electric/pedal power bikes have come wayyyy down from when I was researching last year (was looking for a short-distance commuter vehicle). The one I was looking at last year was Italian and cost $8K. Discovered last week, China is making them these days for $200 for Chinese market, U.S. mfr. making for $2000 (no that is NOT a typo).

By the time I'm ready to buy, looks like they might actually be affordable. As far as replacing the Nissan P/U-not planning to, until I must.
 
JimmyJoe said:
I hear you, James. I need to be reeled in every now and then. Buster's ok, he's backed me up on occasion. If I lived out in the country I'd probably own a big sized truck. Probably have to.

Oil spill has got me talking way outside myself.
Click to expand...
Right on bro...Peace..it's all good:D:)
 
PEACE BROTHERS:)
More is NOT better:nuts:
Scientists Find That Tons Of Oil Seep Into The Gulf Of Mexico Each Year

ScienceDaily (Jan. 27, 2000) — Twice an Exxon Valdez spill worth of oil seeps into the Gulf of Mexico every year, according to a new study that will be presented January 27 at the Ocean Sciences Meeting in San Antonio, Texas.

But the oil isn't destroying habitats or wiping out ocean life. The ooze is a natural phenomena that's been going on for many thousands of years, according to Roger Mitchell, Vice President of Program Development at the Earth Satellite Corporation (EarthSat) in Rockville Md. "The wildlife have adapted and evolved and have no problem dealing with the oil," he said.
[more]
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2000/01/000127082228.htm

IMAGES of the Oil Slicks:
http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=36873
 
Last edited:
05/18/2010 - Updated 9:36 AM ET
1.gif
Crude futures rise above $72/bbl after steep losses American Petroleum Institute will report supply data at 4:30 p.m. Eastern
1.gif

By Claudia Assis, MarketWatch & Polya Lesova, MarketWatch
http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/...S&guid={5A0C9A34-4B07-48A6-A212-33B49898E715}
 
Tar floats, what is tar condensed Oil, Oil floats and Gas floats, The stuff that doesn't float must be different somehow? :confused:
Might be coming from Oil Seeps?

Coast Guard: Tar balls recovered from Key West, Florida

By the CNN Wire Staff
May 18, 2010 11:09 a.m. EDT

story.tar.balls.uscg.jpg

Some of the tar balls found Monday in Key West, Florida, are displayed by the Coast Guard.


CNN) -- The Coast Guard and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration will conduct shoreline surveys in Key West, Florida, on Tuesday after tar balls were found on a beach there, officials said.

The Coast Guard said in a statement it responded to the Florida Park Service report of 20 tar balls on the beach at Fort Zachary Taylor State Park about 5:15 p.m. Monday.
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/05/18/gulf.oil.tar.balls/index.html?hpt=
 
Last edited:
BP says more oil contained, US to probe spill
(Reuters)

18 May 2010,
HOUSTON/COCODRIE, La. - Energy giant BP said on Tuesday it was now able to siphon off about 40 percent of the oil gushing from a ruptured well in the Gulf of Mexico but has not been able to stop the leak, as President Barack Obama is to create a commission to probe the spill.
BP’s progress in capturing more oil through a tube inserted by undersea robots into the mangled “riser” pipe of the well came amid new evidence that a powerful sea current in the Gulf was pushing the crude closer to the U.S. Eastern seaboard.
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/Display...May/environment_May32.xml&section=environment
 
Last edited:
Oil rising again after a 2-week selloff

Analysts wonder if crude's climb will continue or if oil prices will slide again

Mark Williams, AP Energy Writer, On Tuesday May 18, 2010, 1:26 pm
The two-week slide in oil prices that dragged crude down to its lowest price of the year ended Tuesday.
The question now is whether this is the start of a new trend higher in what has been a volatile year for oil prices, or just a pause before prices fall again.
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Oil-r...66.html?x=0&sec=topStories&pos=1&asset=&ccode=
 
Last edited:
There it is, taking advantage of an emergency again!!!:nuts: Where does it stop?:mad: More jobs down the drain, higher costs for energy, I thought we were BROKE? Are we all idiots?:confused:


Interior Adopts New Onshore Drilling Rules
by Judy Fahys
|
The Salt Lake Tribune
|
Tuesday, May 18, 2010

Federal land agencies Monday finalized reforms for oil and gas drilling, reforms triggered by development proposals in Utah near sensitive lands close to national parks and archeological treasures.

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar and U.S. Bureau of Land Management Director Bob Abbey said the changes were needed to restore balance to onshore drilling.

http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?hpf=1&a_id=93437
 
Last edited:
Leasing government land for oil/gas development doesn't make any sense. Does the Government really want it back afterward, and be responsible for cleanup (since the companies don't own they are not responsible)?

Oil/Gas companies should have to buy land, like any other developer. Leasing prices are too low.

It's different than grazing land, you can actually do something with that later, and the tenants aren't permanent.
 
Are all of the Oil companies that drill on the Continental USA American Companies?:confused:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top