Rachel Maddow: 'Beyond Petroleum My ASS'

[tomm2thumbs]

Run time: 07:01 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VGXfGpHnGvc   Posted on YouTube: June 04, 2010 By YouTube Member: StartLoving3 Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: June 04, 2010 By DU Member: tomm2thumbs Views on DU: 2230

 

This only reinforces the fact that everything humanly possible is NOT being done - not by a long shot.

Great investment in drilling, but bamboo poles for response. Speaks volumes.

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Other clips from this show:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxkscmtBrks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMmolGiRFa0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KlBLFHnfTRQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZenXwD_viQs

[EJSTES2005]

1. Why cant they spike the boom into place ?

Almost like a tent spike. Obv they would need strong rings and shollow water but atleast it would not get to the shore ?

[Tansy_Gold]

2. I know NOTHING about booms, but common sense tells me.. . .

1. A spike has to to be driving into something solid enough to hold it. Water is not solid. And I'm not being facetious. These booms float on the water.

2. Spiking them into the underlying seabed would have to be done in very very very shallow water, at which point the oil is too close to shore already.

3. Booms have to be able to float on the surface, which is where much of the oil is going to be also. If they're spiked to the seabed, they can't float on the surface. Because of tides the depth of the water where they'd be spiked would change constantly, so if spiked, there would have to a mechanism to change the length of the spike.


Or I could be wrong.



TG

[EJSTES2005]

4. Thanks

But I just cant seem to understand why there is not a way to keep them from floating right onto the shore.....

[Devil_Fish]

3. tide. Check out this vid on proper booming:

http://demopedia.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=385x466903

[EJSTES2005]

6. WOW!!! That was the most informative clip I have yet to find on this fucking mess yet

Thank you very much for sharing.

[EnviroBat]

16. That was so informative. I'm more pissed off now than ever.

I want to see people in fucking prison right now. I want to see this God Damn administration grow some balls and take fucking charge of this disaster. It becomes more clear every day that corporations and government are out to rob and kill us.

[Kalun D]

5. Booming is a Bandaid

any kind of wind or surf and the oil goes right past it even if it's maintained properly. The dispersants make the booms even less effective because they keep the oil from surfacing.

[EJSTES2005]

8. Well that "fucking"sucks

Guess the next question is....when the fuck will BP bring in some of their 24 supertankers to suck this shit up like they did in the Persian Gulf in 1993 ?????

[Kalun D]

11. That's a Good Question

The rumor I heard on progressive talk is that the tankers are full of oil and they don't want to unload them because there's a surplus of oil right now and it would drive prices down.

[Devil_Fish]

17. I totally belive that. can't drive the price of oil down to save our planet. Nope. N/T

[elzenmahn]

7. RM is one of the few media sources...

...that isn't trying to downplay this disaster or whitewash it.

This is Pulitzer-worthy reporting, IMHO. K&R.

[Devil_Fish]

9. where is the video that comes after this one? N/T

[Tx4obama]

10. The booms are a joke. What they should be doing is ...

using the a HUGE whiffle ball / milk jug type project
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CTrlpQFe74

And also put 100's of the Costner machines at the Gulf.

p.s. Rachel should have on a safety life-jacket on!

[activa8tr]

13. Only Rachel? What about the Tulane expert guy?

Maybe they are in 2 feet of water, and it's hot and humid in LA this time of year.

[Devil_Fish]

18. A fall in to that muck and your dead any way. no life vest needed. N/T

[Aslanspal]

12. She is really our modern day Edward R. Morrow

She really is almost the only one who speaks truth to us and to power.

[activa8tr]

14. Agreed n/t

[time_has_come]

15. It made me cringe to see her walking on the oil-soaked marsh

that is a big no-no, I've heard.