Why the Gulf Oil Spill is THE Biggie

This is from George Ure's Peoplenomics this morning, and it's too important not to share:

The Oil Mess

12 days into the oil rig 'accident' events continue to evolve and weather is slowing down efforts to contain things, we have two interesting items to report that are not in the MSM yet...OK, three then.



1. While there are many reports on the 'net that the rig disaster was an attack by a North Korean mini-sub, and other such fanciful things, we have heard that a supply ship arrived just before the explosions and it was reported to be 'manned by all new people, nobody aboard was from the 'usual supply crew'. This purported industry source continues: there were a total of 14 explosions and these could have been cutting charges. Moreover, the shut off valve below the surface (5000 feet down) on the seabed is not longer controllable. Still, lots of disinfo and speculation scampering around the netosphere. While this is bad, it gets worse.



2. A reader who is an engineer of considerable experience says watch this one evolve carefully because it is destined to continue to grow and he shares this long (but worthy explanation why:

"Heard your mention of the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico this morning, and you (and most everyone else except maybe George Noory) are totally missing the boat on how big and bad of a disaster this is.

First fact, the original estimate was about 5,000 gallons of oil a day spilling into the ocean. Now they're saying 200,000 gallons a day. That's over a million gallons of crude oil a week!

I'm engineer with 25 years of experience. I've worked on some big projects with big machines. Maybe that's why this mess is so clear to me.

First, the BP platform was drilling for what they call deep oil. They go out where the ocean is about 5,000 feet deep and drill another 30,000 feet into the crust of the earth. This it right on the edge of what human technology can do. Well, this time they hit a pocket of oil at such high pressure that it burst all of their safety valves all the way up to the drilling rig and then caused the rig to explode and sink. Take a moment to grasp the import of that. The pressure behind this oil is so high that it destroyed the maximum effort of human science to contain it.

When the rig sank it flipped over and landed on top of the drill hole some 5,000 feet under the ocean.

Now they've got a hole in the ocean floor, 5,000 feet down with a wrecked oil drilling rig sitting on top of is spewing 200,000 barrels of oil a day into the ocean. Take a moment and consider that, will you!

First they have to get the oil rig off the hole to get at it in order to try to cap it. Do you know the level of effort it will take to move that wrecked oil rig, sitting under 5,000 feet of water? That operation alone would take years and hundreds of millions to accomplish. Then, how do you cap that hole in the muddy ocean floor? There just is no way. No way.

The only piece of human technology that might address this is a nuclear bomb. I'm not kidding. If they put a nuke down there in the right spot it might seal up the hole. Nothing short of that will work.

If we can't cap that hole that oil is going to destroy the oceans of the world. It only takes one quart of motor oil to make 250,000 gallons of ocean water toxic to wildlife. Are you starting to get the magnitude of this?

We're so used to our politicians creating false crises to forward their criminal agendas that we aren't recognizing that we're staring straight into possibly the greatest disaster mankind will ever see. Imagine what happens if that oil keeps flowing until it destroys all life in the oceans of this planet. Who knows how big of a reservoir of oil is down there.

Not to mention that the oceans are critical to maintaining the proper oxygen level in the atmosphere for human life.

We're humped. Unless God steps in and fixes this. No human can. You can be sure of that.

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I Thought the Ure letter was exposed as a fraud by a few posters

-The well is located and did NOT fall on the hole
-Bp is building a dome to catch the oil and put it in tankers -side drilling to ease the pressure..
-A nuke is not an option nor is one needed..
-200,000 gallons (barrels) a day is not true

DAJ..respond..hasn't the original letter's assertions been debunked


The debunkers are straining gnats and swallowing camels.

The POINT is the depth involved and the technology available to STOP the leak ~ the oil is potentially inexhaustible ~ this is not a self-limiting spill ~ this is coming straight from the source.

At a depth of 3,500 to 5,000 feet (neither is certain at this point) the only tech we have is ROVs. They are not all powerful, even IF the wellhead is not BLOCKED by debris. Raising the sunken platform will require cutting it to manageable sizes ~ the weights, and distances involved are straining the limits if not exceeding them.

The TIME factor is critical ~ and that too, is a point addressed by the OP ~ debunk him or her all you want but the points addressed make it clear the talking heads are talking about the WRONG thing.

Do the math ~ dealing with the contamination is directly proportional to dealing with the CAUSE ~ and they have not even begun to deal with the cause.

Last Edited by DaJavoo on 05/01/2010 02:36 PM