Brian's Morning Newsletter

Friday, September 3rd 2010

BP is warning Congress that if lawmakers pass legislation that bars the company from getting new offshore drilling permits, it may not have the money to pay for all the damages caused by its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.

Good Morning
This is our future people. We're letting it happen.

I write about the need for Americans taking responsibility for the consequences of our actions and the oil companies continue to blast holes in the planet. Maybe I shouldn't care, perhaps thousands of scientists have everything wrong, but I can't help, but think that the question is so basic even the simple-minded can follow: The reactor melt-down at Three Mile Island, is insignificant in comparison to what the oil companies are doing to the environment, even if one only looks at the superficial affect, as in spills and disregard for inhabitants.  Still we talk about the dangers of nuclear power and let the oil companies have their way with the planet. It is sickening.

Let's look at what BP is saying in the above statement. How does that headline make you feel? Should America give poor ol' misunderstood BP another chance? We refuse to accept the fact that oil is bad, so why not? I can hardly get the flaming liberals on-board with renewable energy, and the republicans… well I named this BMN after what they are concerned about while this country crumbles financially and without conscience.

People who I have great admiration for intellectually still can't come to terms with the difference between drilling a hole in Bernal Mesa for 50 admittedly very large footings for Mega turbines and drilling a hole in the bottom of the ocean where extreme water pressure has kept toxic clouds of high pressure methane out of our atmosphere.

Question the science. Hey it is much easier than taking a stand against an obvious wrong. So Steve says', the methane bubble didn't end the world like I predicted, we can breathe easy. First of all, "I" didn't predict that.  It was Mathew Simmons, yes the same guy the republicans doubted about Peak Oil, which I assume employ this element of doubt, to give them Carte Blanche to continue unimpeded in wasting resources.

Argue, argue, argue, it is just like I said, Palin and Beck are time-wasting idiots, and so are all the arguers. We don't have time to debate. It doesn't matter if megawatt wind turbines have a large carbon footprint, my goodness, of course they do, unless we can make people understand about the cost to the environment with continued oil and gas exploration and we slow down our consumption to a sustainable level, we really ought to dig a thousand holes in Bernal Mesa, just so people can see what wasteful self-righteous environmentally-unaware idiots we have become.

This morning besides the ludicrous headliner about how BP won't be able to pay for the damage it did, unless we let them try again in the Gulf, there is an even more sinister headline," Brazil oil firm Petrobras plans $65 bln stock sale."  Tell me you can't read anything between the lines in this article, and I will leave you to your blissful oil company induced blissful state.   The state run oil company is selling billions of shares, people! You better get in on that investment. Jesus, I hope not. Please tell me you care about our planet, I really need to hear it more often. 

Oh yeah there is plenty of oil left, we can drill and spill forever and never worry no more

I posted Lee's letter on the website  http://outfitnm.com/2010/09/02/bmn-more-good-wind-info Steve posted his here: http://outfitnm.com/2010/08/31/bmn-civilization

I don't know if anyone read the articles in Wind Energy I posted this week, but if it is of any consolation, those Mega-Watt wind farms that T.Boone Pickens built over Texas-way, have problems with power transmission, so they are paying to have power taken away. I don't know if this means you can drive your plug-in electric car over to one of the wind turbines and charge your batteries for free, but yeah maybe, right?
There really could be some benefits to the locals having a huge wind farm nearby. I mean if they can't get the power out, there it is, it's yours.
Y'all have a great weekend, while pretty please try thinking more green and sustainable

Where did all the money go?
Heidi Vogt writes, “The average Nigerian still survives on less than $2 a day, despite the country’s $20 billion rise in oil exports to the United States over the past five years.”

As if the lack of contribution from the oil money towards increasing living standards of Nigerians wasn’t enough, there is the environmental damage -

Flaring & Oil Spills
Flaring, the burning of natural gas (or “associated gas”) so as to increase crude oil production, is highly harmful to the Nigerian people and the world. Flaring releases numberous harmful gases. Flaring also happens close to where the Nigerian people live and work. Photo A above shows a Nigerian woman shifting away her tapioca produce.

Vogt writes, “When the Nigerian government told oil companies to stop flaring gas from drilling in local communities, many simply paid fines instead.”

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Brian Rodgers