Gulf Oil Crisis Continues

6/14/2010



Crisis Fuels Cap and Trade Agenda

Welcome to a new week ladies and gentlemen. The early part of this week will be devoted mostly to the Gulf of Mexico oil leak crisis. President Obama is in the Gulf region as I type this and will also be there tomorrow before heading back to Washington in the afternoon. Tomorrow night Obama will address the nation live from the Oval Office at 8:00PM EDT and address the oil leak. What can we expect from the address tomorrow night? I hope everyone’s gag reflex is ready because I get the feeling that we are getting ready to have something else crammed down our throat just like the healthcare bill was. The Obama administration is going to use the current crisis to further their agenda. Remember what White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel has said…





I will almost guarantee you that we are going to hear Obama push his agenda for Cap and Trade and additional regulation in order to reduce our “footprint” on the environment. This situation in the Gulf has given him the perfect platform to push his environmental agenda. While it may be good for the environment it will absolutely KILL our already dead economy. Corporations are going to struggle to deal with this regulation and in the end you and I, the taxpayer, will end up footing the bill. Corporations will have to adjust to the impacts of Cap and Trade by cutting costs across the board. This will mean lost jobs, lost productivity, and a further impact to our economy. Whether or not we want it though we will be sold that this is necessary in light of the disaster in the Gulf. Make sure you tune in tomorrow night at 8:00PM EDT to find out if I’m right…Take what you hear with a grain of salt and try your best to read between the ignorance…


Signs of 2012?

Ok folks I’m always telling you to imagine the unimaginable. Bear with me because I’m getting ready to do just that and step out on the lunatic fringe a bit. There is currently a theory going around among some experts in the oil and gas industry that the leak at the well head my not be the only problem taking place 5000 feet below the Gulf’s surface. Some experts believe that the well casing itself may have been damaged as much as 1000 below the SEABED. If that is the case then oil may very well be leaking into the bedrock below the sea floor. This theory has been backed up by reports that oil has been seen leaving the seabed at least 7 miles away from the well head. There is a theory that the seabed of the Gulf may very well be fractured and that any effort to contain and stop the leak will prove futile. If the government knew that the spill could not be stopped or contained do you think that they would tell us? Probably not. What if the situation was even more dire than that? What could be worse than a non stop oil leak for years to come? Here me out because it’s going to get a bit deep here.

I’m not a geologist but I’m going to attempt to use a little bit of physics common sense here. The oil reservoir lies approximately 10,000 feet below the seabed. At this depth in the earth’s crust the temperature is approximately 400 degrees Fahrenheit. At the 5000 foot depth at the sea floor the water temp is near freezing. Currently oil is escaping from the reservoir at an extraordinarily high pressure. At the same time there is a large amount of pressure exerted from the ocean water at the well head. At some point in time the pressure on the amount of oil escaping and the pressure of the water at the well head will equalize. When that happens it is conceivable that the water pressure will overtake the pressure of the oil escaping and water will begin to filter down through the well casing. In essence the oil leak will possibly be stopped at this time and a reverse situation will occur with the cool water from the Gulf being forced down the well and back into the reservoir. What happens when near freezing water is introduced into a 400 degree environment? KABOOM! The amount of steam that would be produced would most likely result in a sizeable explosion at the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The explosion would possibly be large enough to create a substantial underwater earthquake and generate a string of tsunami’s that could wipe out the Gulf states. In addition the proximity of the Gulf region to the New Madrid fault in North America is alarming. An underwater explosion in the Gulf could possibly trigger an earthquake along the major New Madrid fault line that could in turn trigger the Yellowstone Supervolcano. In essence we could be looking at the end of the world…as we know it. In addition to all of this it should be noted that toxic rain is a distinct possibility in light of all of the oil and chemicals that are now present in the Gulf.

Is this a bit far fetched? Maybe? Maybe not? But it definitely is imagining the unimaginable…

Until tomorrow…

Stay Educated, Stay Informed, Stay Alert, Stay Safe


Sonny “Bandit” Darlington