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1) "Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it's an opportunity to do things you couldn't do before." - Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel.
2) BP becomes a founding member of the Cap and Trade Lobby
3) Obama administration approves the Horizon deep water well.
4) Somebody on the Horizon deep-water well screws up; 11 people are killed and oil commences spewing into the Gulf at a pretty good clip...estimates range from 5,000 to 1,000,000 gallons per day (who really knows).
5) The Obama administration and BP have spent the ensuing two months refusing offers of assistance and generally bumbling the operation thus creating the worst oil spill in American history with no end in sight.
6) President Obama will take to the airwaves tonight and start pushing for cap and trade.
Discuss.
7) Call Kevin Costner
Well, the hounds didn't like the speech...
MSNBC Trashes Obama's Address: Compared To Carter, "I Don't Sense Executive Command"
Matthews' tingle has turned out to be gangrene...
Fallout from the Spill
Our new Louisiana poll has a lot of data points to show how unhappy voters in the state are with Barack Obama's handling of the oil spill but one perhaps sums it up better than anything else- a majority of voters there think George W. Bush did a better job with Katrina than Obama's done dealing with the spill.
The simple fact is, if you do the math, using the BTU's we get out of oil and gas, there is nothing that can come close to replacing that without using the N word. Nuclear.
FACT CHECK: Obama inflates hopes in spill recovery
Originally Posted by CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press Writer Calvin Woodward, Associated Press Writer – 21 mins ago
WASHINGTON – In assuring Americans on Tuesday that BP won't control the compensation fund for Gulf oil spill recovery, President Barack Obama failed to mention that the government won't control it, either.
That means it's anyone's guess whether the government can, in fact, make BP pay all costs related to the spill.
Obama aimed high in his prime-time Oval Office address — perhaps higher than the facts support and history teaches — as he vowed to restore livelihoods and nature from the still-unfolding calamity in the Gulf of Mexico.
A look at some of his statements and how they compare with those facts:
OBAMA: "We will make BP pay for the damage their company has caused and we will do whatever's necessary to help the Gulf Coast and its people recover from this tragedy. ... Tomorrow, I will meet with the chairman of BP and inform him that he is to set aside whatever resources are required to compensate the workers and business owners who have been harmed as a result of his company's recklessness. And this fund will not be controlled by BP. In order to ensure that all legitimate claims are paid out in a fair and timely manner, the account must and will be administered by an independent, third party."
THE FACTS: An independent arbiter is no more bound to the government's wishes than an oil company's. In that sense, there is no certainty BP will be forced to make the Gulf economy whole again or that taxpayers are completely off the hook for any of the myriad costs associated with the spill or cleanup. The government can certainly press for that, using legislative and legal tools. But there are no guarantees.
It took 20 years to sort through liability after the Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, and in the end, punitive damages were slashed by the courts to about $500 million from $2.5 billion. Many people who had lost their livelihoods in the spill died without seeing a check.
OBAMA: "Already, I have issued a six-month moratorium on deepwater drilling. I know this creates difficulty for the people who work on these rigs, but for the sake of their safety and for the sake of the entire region, we need to know the facts before we allow deepwater drilling to continue."
THE FACTS: Obama issued a six-month moratorium on new permits for deepwater drilling but production continues from existing deepwater wells.
OBAMA: "In the coming days and weeks, these efforts should capture up to 90 percent of the oil leaking out of the well."
THE FACTS: BP and the administration contend that if all goes as planned, they should be able to contain nearly 90 percent of the worst-case oil flow. But that's a big "if." So far, little has gone as planned in the various remedies attempted to shut off or contain the flow. Possibly as many as 60,000 barrels a day are escaping. BP would need to nearly triple its recovery rate to reach the target.
So you're upset because Obama is trying to raise the hopes of the country...
very classy of you..
In all seriousness, how can you fact check the inflating hope?
Well, it appears they take statements intended to "inflate hope", made by Obama during the speech, and compare them to, you know, facts.
Hydrogen. Interestingly, the chinese pebble bed nuclear reactor is designed to produce hydrogen as a transportation fuel. It's gonna suck when China gets to scold us for not being as green as them.
We'll still be stuck listening to the liberal fantasy of wind/solar providing our energy needs.
why not just let it play out before whining about it?..
and because its china nobody will be able to buy out the design and can it. interesting to see where that goes.
Actually it's a modified german design that's been around for quite some time. China bought the design and added the hydrogen part. Just uses the excess energy from reactor to crack h20 and produce hydrogen at no added expense. The pebble bed design is described as walk away safe, it's self limiting so it can't overheat and it's gas cooled so no heavy water. We're so far behind it's not funny, but hey "nuclear" sounds scary.
Solar/wind is a fantasy. Even when they use it, the liberals pull the nimby card.
You have coal, oil, and nuke.
That's it. Get used to it.
Oh yeah, trees. We could go back to burning wood. Of course, there wouldn't be a tree standing in a few years but hey, we tried.
Actually, the original German AVR design has been found to require lots of maintenance and that in turn has pretty much killed the PBMR in South Africa, the only other place where a prototype pebble reactor was being planned/tested. At this point, it's too early to say this is actually a viable tech. While China has presented an ambitious roadmap, they're really on the early stages.
As far as hydrogen production, it's probably one of the greenest ways to crack h2o but not necessarily the most efficient.
And BTW, I'm all for more Nuclear power...
Pebble Bed reactors have been proven safe for years now, and no thermal runaway if there are problems.
Too many people get freaked out here in the USA. We are backwards in so many ways.
Jesus. We wouldn't have very much refrigeration in that scenario, would we?
Growing up in the USA, nobody ever told me to get ready for the mass starvation/migration day. I'm kindly a little behind in my preparations, and frankly admit I lack many of the necessary skills for the reversion to a primitive ac ulation style state of affairs.
7) Yonivore dons tin foil hat to drown out the yelling of black men at gas stations.
1) Project for a New American Century manifesto says: "The process of transformation [into a hegemonic military superpower/empire], even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event – like a new Pearl Harbor."
2) Intel is ignored by the WH regarding the likelihood of another attack on the WTC by Islamic radicals.
3) The WTC is destroyed.
4) We declare war on Afghanistan but allow Osama Bin Laden to escape capture despite US forces having him in their sights.
5) Using the prevalent national fear of another catastrophic terrorist attack, we shift our military focus to Iraq, where we intend to install a democracy, and stateside, where a department of Homeland Security is created following specs laid out in the PNAC Manifesto.
6) "Mission Accomplished!"
Discuss.
With Galileo.
The Iraq war is sooooo yesterday...
The dots for the Repug/neo-c*nt Iraq-for-oil are self-connecting and proven beyond any doubt, but Yoni refuses to admit it. He'd rather nip at the ankles of Magic Negro and pile up rat turds into little mounds of rat turds.
You do know they are building between one and two coal power plants per week, and have been for years.
That is locking them into those plants for the next 20-30 years.
There is no doubt that some seem to think that is feasible.
It really isn't, without some major structural changes, some of which will happen, despite the conservative fantasy that we can keep the status quo forever.
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