Reply #6: Has anybody yet come up with a satisfactory explanation for the initial explosion [View All]

[Peace Patriot]

on the BP rig? That seems to have become lost in the oil slick. Whenever I think a corpo-fascist 'news' article is going to discuss it, they veer off into the various shenanigans of "top kill" and "relief pipes" that BP dangles before us, and get all technical about those, but WHY this oil rig EXPLODED and fell into the sea has NOT been well accounted for. I saw something about methane (was it methane?) in the pipe and this seems to be written off to malfeasance, cost cutting, arguments among managers/execs, etc. WHY did this rig explode? Have the given explanations been sufficiently examined? Are they plausible? Are they TRUE (i.e., is that what happened)?

I myself started to ask the question, "Who benefits?", a couple of days ago. Sabotage has to have a beneficiary. Simply trashing a significant part of the planet to make environmentalists despair and give up is a bit vague as a motivation--although I've seen more than one corpo-fascist writer/operative asserting that the Gulf spill is the fault of California environmentalists who have prevented oil drilling in SHALLOW waters off the California coast, thus "forcing" BP and others to drill in deep waters elsewhere. But that seems more like opportunism than a plausible motive for sabotage. This (Goldman Sachs selling off BP stock before the disaster) is the first evidence I've seen that a plausible motive might have existed. It's certainly worth some thought and investigation.

And, again, how come this rig EXPLODED? How come EVERY safety precaution FAILED? Are people just GUESSING as to why? Is sabotage a possible explanation? Can it be ruled in or out? What actually happened and why? (And whose word do we have for that?)