Seventeen days after I posted this , Mathew Simmons is back on Bloomberg News with this update. Highlights: 1. He bumped up his earlier estimate of the amount of oil gushing into the Gulf from 70k barrels per day to 120k. (He’s been consistently ahead of the “official” estimates from Day One). And that unless the well is fused shut …
Dr. Seuss reaches out from the grave for his take on the BP‘s Oilmaggedon, as captured by this mention of his book, The Lorax, by the School Library Journal: Celebrate the Lorax Project Student Earth Day 03/09/2009 Long before saving the Earth became a global concern, Dr. Seuss spoke about this issue through his book The Lorax (Random, 1971), which …
Mississippi’s Boss Hog Haley Bourbor is giving BP CEO Tony Hayward a run for his money for most asinine comment about the catastrophe both of them helped unleash on the Gulf of Mexico. Upon viewing the first traces of oil from the Macando well blowout to hit the Mississippi coast at Petit Bois Island Wednesday, Barbour remarked: “By God’s grace, …
Matt Simmons’ interview on Bloomberg News Forty days and forty nights– that’s how long the rupture of BP’s Macondo Well has been spilling its oily guts into the Gulf of Mexico at a rate of nearly a million gallons per day. That is, if you accept the twice revised estimates of BP and the US government that initially pegged the …
A Dire Straits message for President Obama Is President Obama suffering from Stockholm Syndrome brought on by the D.C. culture of Regulatory Capture corruption he inherited? Regulatory capture occurs when a state regulatory agency created to act in the public interest instead acts in favor of the commercial or special interests that dominate in the industry or sector it is …
Palin lying through her teeth about oil company campaign contributions I just love the smell of hypocrisy in the morning. Bob Cesca nails it: […] A major corporation, not unlike General Motors or Bank of America or WellPoint, failed to properly outfit one of its deep-water oil drilling platforms with the proper failsafe mechanisms and a chain reaction of death …
