the gulf awfulness will grow - read the following and get sick

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100501/ap_on_bi_ge/us_gulf_oil_spill;_ylt=AuCIzqeIYluMT1chHDeoz1Os0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNkcGxpcjNqBGFzc2V0A2FwLzIwMTAwNTAxL3VzX2d1bGZfb2lsX3NwaWxsBGNjb2RlA21vc3Rwb3B1bGFyBGNwb3MDMQRwb3MDMQRwdANob21lX2Nva2UEc2VjA3luX3RvcF9zdG9yeQRzbGsDb2lsc3BpbGw-


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The Deepwater Horizon well is at the end of one branch of the Gulf Stream, the famed warm-water current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Atlantic. Several experts said that if the oil enters the stream, it would flow around the southern tip of Florida and up the eastern seaboard.

"It will be on the East Coast of Florida in almost no time," Graber said. "I don't think we can prevent that. It's more of a question of when rather than if."

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As bad as the oil spill looks on the surface, it may be only half the problem, said University of California Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea, who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety.

"There's an equal amount that could be subsurface too," said Bea. And that oil below the surface "is damn near impossible to track."

Louisiana State University professor Ed Overton, who heads a federal chemical hazard assessment team for oil spills, worries about a total collapse of the pipe inserted into the well. If that happens, there would be no warning and the resulting gusher could be even more devastating because regulating flow would then be impossible.

"When these things go, they go KABOOM," he said. "If this thing does collapse, we've got a big, big blow."
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and CNN keeps telling us about the stupid car in NYC

and Wash. Journal talked about the Nov. elections

[liberal N proud]

1. Goodbye to the beautiful emerald waters of the gulf coast

Goodbye to the beautiful white sand beaches.

Goodbye to the abundant wildlife along the gulf coast

[malaise]

2. When has CNN not defended

BIG OIL and corporations?

[MadMaddie]

6. Candy Crowly was interviewing Salazar and Napolitono

and her line of questioning was geared toward blaming the government for not reacting soon enough. It was obvious what she was doing.

[tularetom]

8. Sometimes the ugly on the surface really does reflect the ugly inside

Corwley is the personification of that.

[HockeyMom]

3. Local news reports in Florida

Are totally downplaying this. In Naples the story was relegated to the back sections of the national news. This is what you get in a republican controlled area.

[NotThisTime]

4. They'll notice when the oil is on the beach in Naples then...

[MadMaddie]

9. then they will blame President Obama and not BP!

[whyverne]

5. I can hear the teabaggers crying already.

"You guys are going to use this accident for political purposes!"

F**ing A we are.

This hideous mess is going to be the conservatives monument to the corporatocracy, to get government out of everything and to profits over people.

You own it now. You "real Americans". It's all yours. And it will be around for years.

[BeFree]

7. Write On..!!

They have made their bed with the 'drill baby drill', bs.

And now we have Gushing Oilwell Pollution in the Gulf.

Paybacks are hell.

[MadMaddie]

10. Amen!

[workinclasszero]

11. DRILL BABY DRILL!!

Uh...

Nevermind.............

[underseasurveyor]

12. I've heard that it could be more like 25k barrels a day spewing out

and not the more reported and repeated 5k barrels.

I'm just so sick over this and so pissed off. SO freaking pissed off at the carelessness and cavalier attitude of big oil but more over I'm super pissed at any idiot that thinks that drilling more is the answer to anything. So fucking mad:mad:

[whyverne]

13. They don't know. There's no way to measure it.

It's a WAG (wild ass guess).