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nnuut said:
Oil Spill's Vanishing Act!!:D
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http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/us/2010/08/06/mattingly.grand.isle.cnn?hpt=T2
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What people want to do is: compare this with the Valdez spill...and you can't do that..the water in the Gulf is 100 times more viable and resilient than the Bearing sea, due largely in part to the warm temps and the higher microbe population..in fact, in one article I read today, it was suggested that since the Gulf has a lot of oil seepage normally..the waters are teaming with these oil eating microbes because of that..sort of a natural immunity..
 
Buster said:
What people want to do is: compare this with the Valdez spill...and you can't do that..the water in the Gulf is 100 times more viable and resilient than the Bearing sea, due largely in part to the warm temps and the higher microbe population..in fact, in one article I read today, it was suggested that since the Gulf has a lot of oil seepage normally..the waters are teaming with these oil eating microbes because of that..sort of a natural immunity..
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This is obviously a vast right wing conspiracy and the bushies are hiding that oil somewhere:worried:

Seriously, I would like to see some on the ground up close news of the areas where oil was present and wildlife was impacted. We did see some pretty sickening footage and I would like to see those areas now. Gonna have to look in to some of the old reports.
 
It definitely has hurt the Gulf BIG TIME, but it will heal. Hopefully they have learned something from this disaster, if there is a next time the efforts to stop a leak may take much less time than this one.
 
08/09/2010 - Updated 9:44 AM ET
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Crude rises 1% on eve of key Fed meeting
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By Nick Godt, MarketWatch

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures rose Monday with the energy market focused on an important Federal Reserve Board policy meeting as speculation mounted that the central bank might again take action to boost a sputtering U.S. economy. [more]
http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/...-43D0-BCD6-6EC49320D549}&loc=interstitialskip
 
08/09/2010 - Updated 3:09 PM ET
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Crude rises 1%; natural gas hits two-month low
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By Claudia Assis, MarketWatch & Nick Godt, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures rose Monday, tracking U.S. equities and shaking off Friday's weakness, but trading was decidedly rockier for natural gas, which tanked 3.5% and hit a two-month low. [more]
http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/...S&guid={1B130A03-3988-43D0-BCD6-6EC49320D549}

Posting this a little late today, The wife had her purse stolen in WalMark parking lot!! I've been cancelling credit cards etc. all afternoon! Damnit!!:nuts:
 
http://www.nhc.noaa.gov/gtwo_atl.shtml
US Government: Storm Delays Relief Well 2-3 Days
BP is delaying for two or three days its plan to completely kill a broken well in the Gulf of Mexico using a relief well due to the threat of a tropical cyclone forming in the area, the federal response commander said Tuesday.
The company was ready to start the "bottom kill" operation Thursday or Friday but the threat of the storm delayed the process for a few days, said Thad Allen, the top federal oil spill response official in a conference call. The window to permanently plug the broken well is now from Sunday to Tuesday, he said. [more]
http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=97226&hmpn=1
 
08/11/2010 - Updated 3:11 PM ET
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Crude oil, gasoline futures close at multiweek lowsLarge inventories build for gasoline, distillates push prices further down
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By Claudia Assis, MarketWatch & Nick Godt, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures fell to a two-week low on Wednesday, hit by more signs of weakening in the U.S. economy, sliding U.S. stocks, and a government report showing large increases in gasoline and distillates inventories.


http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/usatoday-com/html-story.asp?markets=COMMODITIES&guid=%7B549E6DF8%2D47F0%2D4F79%2D9685%2D2E79BC6C4B65%7D
 
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It's simply Violates the Laws of physics that something goes UP faster than it goes Down but in the case of Gas/Oil prices it is true!!:mad: oilrig1.gif
 
08/12/2010 - Updated 9:10 AM ET
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Crude futures slump more than 2% on economic worries
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By Polya Lesova, MarketWatch & Nick Godt, MarketWatch

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures fell sharply Thursday, falling more than 2% to trade near $76 a barrel, as global economic worries again overshadowed energy trading and as the dollar strengthened. [more]
http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/...S&guid={1BF1A4F9-977A-4EBF-9511-0B5888A38BC5}
 
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08/12/2010 - Updated 12:32 PM ET
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Crude futures slump on economic worries
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By Claudia Assis, MarketWatch & Nick Godt, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude-oil futures fell for a third straight session Thursday, dropping 1.5% to trade below $77 a barrel as global economic worries overshadowed energy trading and as the dollar strengthened. [more]
http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/...S&guid={1BF1A4F9-977A-4EBF-9511-0B5888A38BC5}
 
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08/13/2010 - Updated 9:54 AM ET
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Crude oil futures see-saws, loses 6% on the week
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By Claudia Assis, MarketWatch & Nick Godt, MarketWatch

SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Crude oil futures struggled to post gains Friday, still far from recouping some of the week's steep losses as the latest batch of U.S. economic data on retail sales and consumer prices did little to stem concerns about growth and energy demand.

http://markets.usatoday.com/custom/...-4972-9F05-766202E484E1}&loc=interstitialskip
 
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Science, engineering teams assessing BP well

By the CNN Wire Staff
August 13, 2010 1:28 p.m. EDT

(CNN) -- The anticipated bottom kill on the once-gushing Gulf of Mexico oil well may not have to be done, BP said Friday. But the company said that is a low probability.
Scientists and BP engineers were looking at pressure tests conducted Thursday and were to announce their decision Friday.
The relief well that would be used for the bottom kill is likely to be completed in any case, BP told CNN Friday. But cement and other materials forced into the well during the "static kill" procedure could have gotten into a core area of the well, making the bottom kill unnecessary, it said.
The pressure tests and further investigation -- through continuation of drilling the relief well -- should tell scientists and engineers for sure, BP said. [more]
http://www.cnn.com/2010/US/08/13/gulf.oil.disaster/index.html?hpt=T1
 
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