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Three days after the Gulf oil rig explosion, the Netherlands offered to send in oil skimmers to pump oil off of the surface of the ocean. The Obama Administration turned them down because they were not 100% efficient and small amounts of oil would be pumped back into the Gulf with the excess water. EPA regulations do not allow for residue water to contain any oil. So rather than use equipment that was not 100% efficient the Obama Administration chose to let all of the oil run into the Gulf. This is not just bad policy, it is criminal.
Since the Obama Administration turned down assistance from The Netherlands at least 125 miles of Louisiana coastline has been ruined by the BP oil spill. Tar blobs began washing up on Florida’s white sand beaches near Pensacola days ago. And, crude oil has also been reported along barrier islands in Alabama and Mississippi.
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Clean-up workers pick up blobs of oil in absorbent snare on Queen Bess Island at the mouth of Barataria Bay near the Gulf of Mexico in Plaquemines Parish, La., Friday, June 4, 2010. The Examiner reported, via Free Republic |
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The U.S. Government has apparently reconsidered a Dutch offer to supply 4 oil skimmers. These are large arms that are attached to oil tankers that pump oil and water from the surface of the ocean into the tanker. Water pumped into the tanker will settle to the bottom of the tanker and is then pumped back into the ocean to make room for more oil. Each system will collect 5,000 tons of oil each day.
One ton of oil is about 7.3 barrels. 5,000 tons per day is 36,500 barrels per day. 4 skimmers have a capacity of 146,000 barrels per day. That is much greater than the high end estimate of the leak. The skimmers work best in calm water, which is the usual condition this time of year in the gulf.
These systems were developed by the Dutch as a safety system in case of oil spills from either wells or tankers. The Dutch have off shore oil development and also import oil in tankers. Their economy, just like ours, runs on oil. They understand that the production and use of oil has dangers and they wanted to be ready to cope with problems like spills. The Dutch system has been used successfully in Europe.
The Dutch offered to fly their skimmer arm systems to the Gulf 3 days after the oil spill started. The offer was apparently turned down because EPA regulations do not allow water with oil to be pumped back into the ocean. If all the oily water was retained in the tanker, the capacity of the system would be greatly diminished because most of what is pumped into the tanker is sea water.
As of June 8th, BP reported that they have collected 64,650 barrels of oil in the Gulf. That is only a fraction of the amount of oil spilled from the well. That is less than one day’s rated capacity of the Dutch oil skimmers.
Turning down the Dutch skimmers shows a total lack of leadership and overall incompetence in handling this Gulf oil disaster.
The Obama Administration turned down offers to help clean up the spill from The Netherlands and the British Government just days after the explosion. They didn’t accept the British help because they didn’t have the proper paperwork. The administration still has not given the OK to allow emergency workers to use a Maine company’s oil boom even though they were made aware of the warehouse full of containment boom back on May 21.
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Saving America
Now is the time for all of us to come to the aid of our Country !!! For the first time in any of our lives we have found ourselves in a Constitutional crisis. Since the beginning of our great Country there have been many attempts made at amending the Constitution. The framers of our founding document realized that, for its meaning to stay intact, there could never be changes made to it. It was made clear by the language in it, that there were to be no amendments made to the Constitution of the United States of America. To do so would erode its guarantees that we as a people would remain free and self determining, that regardless of social status, no one person could impose his will on another person in relation to that person's inalienable rights for the pursuit of happiness. As long as that person obeyed the laws of society, he was guaranteed certain inalienable rights. The framers knew that to change one part of it, would affect its structure as a whole. Like a Spider Web, to cut one strand would compromise the integrity of the web as a whole.
Now, as a political party, we are facing a similar crisis. The conservative ideal, the principals that unite us as a whole, are having our connecting fiber cut along the lines of ideological divides. We have extreme right wing Republicans favoring their one size fits all approach, no room for deviance from the party line, battling moderate Republicans (Rino's) who are willing to sell their soul for power and money, and who are willing to cut a deal with the Devil. Who are in turn in conflict with Independent and just barely right of center independents or centrists depending where you draw the line on being a conservative, who want an end to the business as usual. I am not saying we don’t all want an end to business as usual, all I know is neither party has helped get us out of this mess. It is almost like they are joined at the hip. There are far too many deals being cut that leave us tax payers holding the bill. There is too much Pork on both sides of the isle and it seems no one is truly looking out for us, the tax payer. There is no doubt that a Conservative’s ideals are; Pro life, less taxes, less Government is better Government, Government out of our lives, The Government has no wealth, only our wealth, Christian based faith, Pro business.
The Constitution of the United States of America is a perfect document when left unchanged, desecrated if changed, that we as a people have a right and an obligation to defend the Constitution of the United States of America against all enemies, foreign or domestic (Today’s Politicians). The list is long, but there is no mistaking our differences with Utopian and Progressive based Liberals who believe your money is their money, that the Government is wealthy. That is where we must all unite at once, we must save our ideological differences of party for another day and defeat this great Politically Correct Devil that will consume our wealth and freedoms and render us slaves to a Godless society. We can’t afford to worry about where to dig the well as our Country's framework burns. The conservative tent must be all inclusive, Just as hard core Republicans do not have the numbers to defeat the libs, neither do the moderates nor Independents alone have the numbers. We must put our differences aside and come together as Conservatives; business as usual must end now, and we need an overwhelming show of force, an unmistakable mandate and new politicians with a spine. We must unite now, or it will be forever too late !!!!
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