Black Tide on Animal Planet right now

["W"]

Just because you worked the oil spill dont mean crap.....go find us some oil and show me where its on the bottom of the gulf??


Just like a show they aired a few months back

took that robot deal and went down 7000ft at the well site and said....WOW no life everything is dead and ........ But they did not go 100 miles over in the same 7000ft of water to find out that nothing lives in that 7000ft of water and it all looks the same

Funny how none of you heard or seen the oil in the gulf after Rita and Katrina.....It never affected anyone but yet we had more oil and chemicals in the gulf than this whole spill...It was just spread out farther... Plus with all the platforms that were lost...Do you know what is on a platform besides oil?????


And BP Paid more than it was worth to legit claims..


Hell we had guys in Big Lake who filed clams due to lack of business when all the other guide company had to turn people away due to over booked

Then you had guys who never paid taxes for 10 years who wanted to clam half a million dollars in lost profit but showed 7,000 the last 10 years

And all the "Im Sick" is crap.....


Yes somethings took a lick.....Stores,guides,seafood,commercial fisherman

These people were paid and could get jobs with BP....


If you work at Wal Mart you can not sue..because of BP oil spill....

["W"]

OIL IS AN NATURAL SUBSTANCE FROM THE EARTH....BOTTOM LINE

Fumes from your car is more dangers than Crude Oil

["W"]

Newser) – Everyone seems to be calling the Deepwater Horizon spill the worst environmental disaster ever, but rumors of the Gulf’s death may be greatly exaggerated, writes Michael Grunwald of TIME. While there could be long-term ramifications from the spill, the damage so far actually looks pretty modest. It’s killed less than 1% as many birds as the Exxon Valdez spill, for example, and the region’s fish and shrimp have so far tested clean. As for Louisiana’s marshes, the spill affected only about 350 acres of wetlands that were already disappearing at a rate of 15,000 acres a year thanks to oil and gas industry pipelines. One LSU professor likens the spill to “a sunburn on a cancer patient.” This is lighter crude than the Exxon spilled, experts explain, and Mississippi river currents are keeping it off the coast. “We're not seeing catastrophic impacts,” says one marine scientist. “There’s a lot of hype, but no evidence to justify it

["W"]

Love this Guy...he tells it right

Oil spill tragedy: tragically over-hyped


By John Stapleton IV
Online Editor

Give us a break already with the anti-BP oil spill diatribes. Without getting into the idiocy of blaming the owner of a rig for the operators' actions (like blaming McDonald's when you dump their coffee in your own lap), the whole outrage being generated by liberal media is unjustifiably deafening – there's oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico people, not the Great Barrier Reef.
First and foremost, let's be honest: It's not devastating an intricate marine ecosystem. The Gulf has been so saturated with oil spills over the last fifty years that most people won't even swim in it, let alone eat from it. This goes double for nature, leaving the Gulf to the scavengers. So, it's not annihilating pods of humpback whales, it's killing sea gulls, and no one likes sea gulls anyway – they're like the pigeons of the sea. This limits its lethal range to roughly…jellyfish.
What exactly is the problem with fewer seagulls and fewer jellyfish? If anything, it's making the Gulf of Mexico more appealing, which is a pretty hard thing to accomplish in and of itself. This cesspool of oceanic wasteland is about as essential to our ecosystems as your un-flushed toilet water is to making a glass of lemonade.
Remember the last time you ate ANYTHING from the Gulf of Mexico? Of course not – there's nothing (safe) to eat there because the only things that thrive in the Gulf are oil companies. Ironically, the media hangs itself with its own rope by announcing that all the Gulf's seafood will have to be tested for safety – for decades – because of this spill, the irony being that if THIS spill makes seafood unsafe, the LAST spill makes it entirely inedible, and that would kind of prove my point.
If I hear one more pusillanimous liberal tell me this is the largest oil spill ever I'm just going to run towards the nearest living thing and beat it to death with a gas pump. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration reports that Deepwater Horizon is belching a maximum of 19,000 barrels of oil per day, which puts the spill at roughly three quarters of a million gallons to date.
That's a lot of money floating around, but doesn't even come close to the LAST Gulf spill – the greatest accidental oil spill in the history of mankind – which NOAA assessed to be spewing over 30,000 barrels of oil into the Gulf every day – and not just every day, but every day for NINE MONTHS. The reason you never heard of Ixtoc I is because: A, it happened a lot closer to Mexico than Louisiana; and B, it dwarfs the Deepwater thing. Which makes the reporting media look like the bunch of sensationalist fear-mongers that they actually are.
This oil is LITERALLY more biodegradable than any of the stuff we turn it into and ESPECIALLY less harmful to the planet than the chemicals we're using to "clean it up." The media is telling people that BP has single-handedly destroyed the planet. Grow up. Much, much larger quantities of oil have been spilling into our waterways for centuries – waterways we actually eat from – and guess who's not dead yet? Us.
We live in America. We buy stuff – stuff that is largely comprised of petroleum-based products. Don't boycott BP, boycott all the companies that thrive on their petroleum. Stop wearing make up, smash your cell phone, give away your laptop, and trade your "eco-friendly" Prius in for a bicycle – with no tires.
Of course THAT won't happen, no one wants to sacrifice their OWN stuff, but you'll march around the BP station to protest the company that makes all of these products possible.
Look, as soon as someone figures out how to make a fully-functional Macbook out of leaves and hemp, let us know. Until then, stop being such a hypocrite. If you bought anything at all in the last decade that didn't grow out of the ground, you paid for BP to be here. Allowing BP to continue drilling is like choosing the lesser of two evils (if only one choice was actually evil): Would you rather have cheaper everything? Or more jellyfish?
Here's my point: if the liberals are right, and oil spills kill sea-life, then there hasn't been anything swimming in the Gulf for twenty years, so let's drill it. If the conservatives are right, then we need Gulf oil to make our economy affordable, so let's drill it.
In either case, it seems there is complete agreement that this Deepwater Horizon spill – while cataclysmically messy – will have the ecological impact of the thylacine extinction. Unless you want to pay $8 per gallon or start drilling off Santa Monica Pier, the drilling of this figurative sea of oilrigs (and recently, this literal sea of oil) needs to continue.
We can't fix the Gulf and it's not worth fixing anyway, but we need to insist that oil drilling stay limited to the Gulf. Essentially it comes down to this: since we can't stop consuming, we can at least STOP from making EVERY coast into the same mess by insisting we stick to drilling the Gulf.

[Wide Open]

Originally Posted by "W"

OIL IS AN NATURAL SUBSTANCE FROM THE EARTH....BOTTOM LINE

Fumes from your car is more dangers than Crude Oil

Damnit boy u sure get worked up huh!

[eman]

Originally Posted by "W"

I know this...He was down in Grand Isle a week ago when the winds were calm..He texted me several days with 75-100 trout by 9am-10am....

In the good years most of the guides i know are cleaning their limits of 100 fish when we get back to the dock w/ our 75 trout at 9 am.
grand isle is not like big lake . a limit of fish is fairly easy for anyone who knows how to fish. If you know 3 spots to fish on any wind a limit is easy.
Live bait makes it even easier. A limit doesn't impress anyone at the cleaning tables but a limit of 2-3 lb trout is something.
Most of the guides down there take 4 guys out and catch a quick limit of
12 -14" trout and the sports are happy . I will take the word of guides who lives on the island and fishes G.I. every day over one who lives over on the east side and fishes it ocassionally.

[booyagasha]

w' come to this side and attend a town hall meeting. and tell these people what you telling us..I DARE YOU..the .west side is way more friendly bob than the east side..i can promise you that

[Wide Open]

I dont have the equipment nor the funds to search the ocean floor, for oil , but if you wish to see oil for yourself head to N. Barataria or the beaches of Barataria, its still there. Good luck on this one no more time for it. Im out for the evening!

["W"]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

w' come to this side and attend a town hall meeting. and tell these people what you telling us..I DARE YOU...west side is way more friendly bob this the east side..i can promise you that

NO....I seen them on you tube and it sounded like the biggest welfare run since Katrina...

There is one guy one here.....he post often who is from your side....He attended 3 meetings.....

and in a hand basket this was his reply

Dude..I cant go to anymore....Its like Katrina all over again but instead of government its BP fault....Half never worked and dont carry there own insurance and now they all sick but live 40 miles inland
its is a sicking to see our people fight for money they never had or need..but just to get it because it free.......
all of the commercial fisherman wanted 3 times what they made or showed last year! Wanted to throw up ...
Sad that trash will come out of the waters for free money instead of waking up getting on a boat and working for you money.....



He will read this and he can chime in....I have seen them on youtube and Im not a welfare person so I dont need to attend

["W"]

Originally Posted by booyagasha

you're not trying to bite the hand thatfeeds you, but also remember this...closed mouths don't get fed, and in the case of bp, nobody got fed.

One more thing...Your right dont bite the hand that feed you
So every

Crabber
Oyster man
Shrimper
Fisherman
Needs to get on his knees at night and than God for "us oil people"

Which with out "US" oil people they would not have a job to make money for
Who gives them gas and diesel for boats? What do they put in their trucks to get back and forth to work? How is their catches moved for sale?

With out "US Oil People" there would be no Seafood unless you caught it from the road ditch by walking their

And How come the So Called Seafood Hunters want to bash BP but yet I fly over them all the time to witness them dumping there bilge in to the same waters they turn around and catch in.....
(anyone who flys in the Gulf has witness this 100 times)


SO BEFORE YOU SAY....Dont bite the Hand that Feeds you..... Remember Oil feeds all of us!! So with out OIL the rest is irrelevant

[Jordan]

Jeremy, what do you put in your truck to go back and forth fishing ??? Air ??? Sugar ???

Sure as hell aint love !!!

["W"]

Originally Posted by Jordan

Jeremy, what do you put in your truck to go back and forth fishing ??? Air ??? Sugar ???

Sure as hell aint love !!!

GAS and lots of it.....But I dont ***** when it hits the water!!! Because I can live with a few dead seagulls and pelicans.....

I love Gas...Because I hate to walk.....

[Jordan]

Originally Posted by "W"

GAS and lots of it.....But I dont ***** when it hits the water!!! Because I can live with a few dead seagulls and pelicans.....

I love Gas...Because I hate to walk.....

the things i wanna say.

[Micah]

Originally Posted by Jordan

the things i wanna say.

Anything about the oil spill is supposed to be in the premium section anyways.....go ahead and say it....

[Jordan]

Originally Posted by Marsh Boy

Anything about the oil spill is supposed to be in the premium section anyways.....go ahead and say it....

i dont feel like going to banned camp....... stop stirring the pot homie !!!!!

[Ray]

I didn't start this thread in the Premium section cause I wanted everyone to see the show. It is about Louisiana. This is predominantly a Louisiana forum.

My biggest gripe about the show is all the people saying they got sick from the smell of the oil slick on Grand Isle.
I have worked in 100% pure crude over half my life and never got any sickness over it. I smell it, I have been covered in it, I have tasted it(not on purpose), I have had it get on cuts and even in my eyes and it never made me sick. How can a sheen or slick miles away make people sick???
How come people who work in refineries, barges, tanker ships, ect., don't get these same sicknesses?

[Gerald]

Originally Posted by Ray

I didn't start this thread in the Premium section cause I wanted everyone to see the show. It is about Louisiana. This is predominantly a Louisiana forum.

My biggest gripe about the show is all the people saying they got sick from the smell of the oil slick on Grand Isle.
I have worked in 100% pure crude over half my life and never got any sickness over it. I smell it, I have been covered in it, I have tasted it(not on purpose), I have had it get on cuts and even in my eyes and it never made me sick. How can a sheen or slick miles away make people sick???
How come people who work in refineries, barges, tanker ships, ect., don't get these same sicknesses?

If you ever get some crude oil that has any hydrogen sulfide in it....that stuff is BAD. I was out in the refiener checking for which heat exchanger had a leaking tube [Cooling Tower water was getting messed up]. I found one sample point the had just a little "gas" come out when I opened up the line. Got a whiff of H2SO4....then nothing. I went on to check several more exchangers. Then I went back to check the suspected exchanger.....but smelled nothing this time.

Well.....my nose was "killed" when I got the first whiff. In the next 30 minutes, I had the worst headache ever and felt really bad. I felt very bad for the next 6 or 8 hours.

[Duck Butter]

Originally Posted by "W"

Love this Guy...he tells it right

What exactly is the problem with fewer seagulls and fewer jellyfish? If anything, it's making the Gulf of Mexico more appealing, which is a pretty hard thing to accomplish in and of itself. This cesspool of oceanic wasteland is about as essential to our ecosystems as your un-flushed toilet water is to making a glass of lemonade.
Remember the last time you ate ANYTHING from the Gulf of Mexico? Of course not – there's nothing (safe) to eat there because the only things the same mess by insisting we stick to drilling the Gulf.

You can't be serious? This guy is a quack. Comparing the GOM to a cesspool, and is NON-ESSENTIAL to our ecosystems!

The GOM and our marshes are one of the most productive ecosystems in the world!

["W"]

Originally Posted by Duck Butter

You can't be serious? This guy is a quack. Comparing the GOM to a cesspool, and is NON-ESSENTIAL to our ecosystems!

The GOM and our marshes are one of the most productive ecosystems in the world!

He is being sarcastic

[Ray]

Originally Posted by Gerald

If you ever get some crude oil that has any hydrogen sulfide in it....that stuff is BAD. I was out in the refiener checking for which heat exchanger had a leaking tube [Cooling Tower water was getting messed up]. I found one sample point the had just a little "gas" come out when I opened up the line. Got a whiff of H2SO4....then nothing. I went on to check several more exchangers. Then I went back to check the suspected exchanger.....but smelled nothing this time.

Well.....my nose was "killed" when I got the first whiff. In the next 30 minutes, I had the worst headache ever and felt really bad. I felt very bad for the next 6 or 8 hours.

We have H2S where I work due to water flood injection. it kills your sense of smell, then you don't know you are smelling any longer. You think you are in the clear since you no longer smell it.
Those vessels should have been drained, purged and tested before anyone went in, or even cracked a manway.