Breaking: Another oil rig explodes in the Gulf

[Jwalker]

Wow holy crap, If your a CEO of an oil company don't you have an incentive to make sure your rig doesn't blow up I mean weren't the ships sailing in alaska careful a month after exxon valdez.

[xhepera]

Robert Gibbs immediately stated there were no live wells on that rig. Not true. There's around seven.

The White House tried to downplay the whole situation.

Interesting. . .the only immediate statement I saw from Gibbs was as follows:

Q There’s an oil-production platform in the Gulf that’s on fire. Does it present any of the same problems of the BP rig? It’s obviously not under a moratorium. Do you know anything more about the accident?

MR. GIBBS: Well, let me just say -- here’s what I know before we came out here. This is a -- I’m told this is a production platform about 100 miles off the coast. I am told the depth of water is about 340 feet. So this is not a -- this is not a deepwater facility.

As I understand it, the well was not in active production. I will in some ways reiterate what I think the Coast Guard has said in a statement that they’ve released, and that is that they responded to the preliminary reports of a fire onboard an oil platform in the Gulf. The initial report that we got were that 13 persons -- 13 people were on the platform. They are accounted for; one is injured and is on his way out of that area.

Two Coast Guard cutters, multiple Coast Guard aircraft were en route. One Coast Guard helicopter was on the scene. We will continue to gather information as we respond. We obviously have response assets ready for deployment should we receive reports of pollution in the water.

I see no mention of "wells," which is appropriate since the structure is a production platform. It wouldn't contain wells. Its purpose is to collect oil and gas from *remote* wells. In any case, the claim of "lots of misinformation coming from the Obama Regime" doesn't appear to be borne out here.

[xhepera]

Maybe we should start a pool to take guesses on who will be the first to blame this on Bush.

Are there people really that stupid and ignorant? Yeah,okay, nevermind. . .of course there are. Just as stupid and ignorant as those who would lay it at the feet of Obama. My bad

[MGX]

The I35W bridge in Minnesota failure was due to insufficient sized gusset plates and construction materials loading. It had been declared structurally deficient for about 10 years before failure.

[myuserid]

Are there people really that stupid and ignorant? Yeah,okay, nevermind. . .of course there are. Just as stupid and ignorant as those who would lay it at the feet of Obama. My bad

I didn't lay it at the feet of Obama.

But he's so fond of blaming all his troubles on Bush, I suppose it's only a matter of time.

Of course, that's only if we can get him in from vacation or off the golf course long enough to hear what he thinks about it.

[Bigblue1]

I didn't lay it at the feet of Obama.

But he's so fond of blaming all his troubles on Bush, I suppose it's only a matter of time.

Of course, that's only if we can get him in from vacation or off the golf course long enough to hear what he thinks about it.

All of the Left said the same thing about Bush and his Ranch. Wake up people you are being gamed.........

[snusgetter]

... Of course, that's only if we can get him in from vacation or off the golf course long enough to hear what he thinks about it.

I remember the same being said of President 'I Like Ike' Eisenhower way back when!!