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  1. Christie would make a “presidential” president. We need a return to the fat presidents of time past like almost every one of then from Ulysses S Grant to Warrren Harding

  2. By etson on May 19, 2010 3:42 PM

    Plugging a hole nearly a mile deep is like pushing on a string. It might not make an accident more likely, but it surely makes fixing things once one happens more difficult by magnitudes.

  3. dibs you buying this market… I was looking to buy this morning , just didn’t have the brass balls to get in.. LOL

    I have stopped the stutter.. New mouse…

  4. Etson;

    I don’t agree with some of the points you just made.

    -We have not depleted our reserves closer to shore. Some areas have just been barred from drilling since the backlash caused by the Santa Barbara oilspill many years ago.

    -The level of engineering required for these deeper rigs, in all aspects (drilling, rigging, accident recivery) is orders of magnituse more difficult when one gets below about 2000 meters in depth.

  5. But, etson, it does make a difference in the ability to cap off the blowout when it is in much deeper water. An onshore blowout is capped in a few hours.

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