Oil Rig Explodes Off Louisiana Coast in Gulf of Mexico

Oh, crap. One explosion, accident. Multiples, and ?????

And I suppose there are explosions, and then there are explosions.

This is not good at any level.

1 is an accident, 2 within months after years of quiet success.......

From what I have read so far, nobody was sure if this was just a platform or a drilling rig and nobody is sure if there was anybody onboard or not.

I am hoping for it being just a platform and I am hoping nobody was onboard.

I read that there were four boats, two planes, and seven helicopters enroute.

Fortunately they are not saying it is a BP rig or platform or at least not yet.

Has Obama announced yet that he's on top of it?

A whole 23 minutes before Obama was mentioned. I would have given it at least a half hour.

You snooze, you lose.

too bad he wasn't on top of it

I so hope this isn't more devastating news for an area that's been so hard hit already.

I blame Bush.

"Huh?"

If only we'd thrown him out over that DUI, then who would we blame?

... then who would we blame?

Reagan? Yeah, that will poll really well.

Ford? That's just silly.

Nixon? It's been done up the ying-yang.

Eisenhower? Now there's an idea. Although, just a heads-up. We may be dealing with generals again - soon. Don't say something you'll regret.

Mariner Energy reported the oil sheen. The company said in a public statement that an initial flyover of the platform did not reveal any spilled oil.
Photos from the scene showed at least five ships floating near the platform. Three of them were shooting great plumes of water onto the machinery. Light smoke could be seen drifting across the deep blue waters of the gulf.
By late afternoon, the fire on the platform was out.
WMTW

Hard to believe that these aren't intentional.

I blame Cheney and the Halliburton weather machine.

http://online.wsj.com
* U.S. NEWS
* SEPTEMBER 3, 2010

Blaze Shakes Oil Industry
Accident Intensifies Debate on Drilling in the Gulf; All Aboard Are Rescued
By LESLIE EATON, JEFFREY BALL And STEPHEN POWER

HOUMA, La.—The fire that engulfed an oil/gas platform Thursday...heightened pressure on the energy industry..battling greater regulation and a deep-water drilling ban.

...little/no oil appears to have...spilled.

But the towering column of smoke...provoked an outcry from environmental groups and politicians in Washington already skeptical of offshore drilling.

And it complicated the energy industry's effort to portray BP PLC's massive Deepwater Horizon oil spill as a fluke that shouldn't have provoked a drilling moratorium....

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870420680457546760052812838...

Yawn.

How many people were killed in US cities yesterday?