Large Oil Skimmer Being Tested in Gulf

[Fulltimer]

It finally arrived after being retrofitted to skim and seperate oil.

http://www.emailthis.clickability.co...ToID=777469539

The vessel is estimated to be able to skim 21 million gallons of oil a day, at least 250 times the amount that modified fishing vessels currently conducting skimming operations have been able to contain, according to TMT.

Just how fast does this ship go?

The way I caculate it a ship like this can only skim a path as wide as its beam. Just like a lawn mower it will have to go back and forth to skim oil from the water.

When they claim it can skim 21 million gallons of oil a day it would have to be moving at just about the speed of sound to accomplish that feat. It would be processing many times that amount of seawater.

If it does work the way they promise BP should hire it and I will go down to watch it outrun those go-fast boats the drug smugglers are using.


don

[Billy_Rightwing]

Oh isn't that wonderful, after 73 days Obama says we can get help now with out worrying about the unions.

[Fulltimer]

Oh isn't that wonderful, after 73 days Obama says we can get help now with out worrying about the unions.

More BS from you Billy.

Why do you continue to spout such nonsense? The one thing I can always count on is you to mindlessly post the false GOP talking points.

In fact and verified by Fact check.org Obama hasn't blocked any ships or foreign nations and the Jones act hasn't been an issue at all one way or another.

http://www.factcheck.org/2010/06/oil...the-jones-act/

In reality, the Jones Act has yet to be an issue in the response efforts. The Deepwater Horizon response team reported in a June 15 press release that there are 15 foreign flagged ships currently participating in the oil spill cleanup. None of them needed a waiver because the Jones Act does not apply. The Jones Act is a trade and commerce law that was enacted in 1920 as part of a larger Marine Merchant Act. It requires all trade delivered between U.S. ports to be carried in U.S. flagged vessels constructed in the United States and owned by American citizens. The law states its purpose is to develop a merchant marine for national defense and commerce.

Why was the Jones Act waived as part of the Hurricane Katrina response, and why hasn’t it been waived now? Katrina inflicted massive infrastructure damage, which restricted the availability of key resources. According to the Deepwater Horizon response team: "A Jones Act waiver was granted during Hurricane Katrina due to the significant disruption in the production and transportation of petroleum and/or refined petroleum products in the region during that emergency and the impact this had on national defense." The Deepwater Horizon spill has yet to affect infrastructure or oil and gas availability; the damage is environmental, and foreign vessels are approved for delivering resources and conducting offshore skimming. Although the Jones Act is currently not applicable, the federal government has taken steps to expedite the waiver process should the oil spill response require a Jones Act waiver for trade and commerce.

Also, contrary to reports such as the one on "Fox & Friends," international assistance has been accepted. To date, 25 countries and four international organizations have offered support in the form of skimming vessels, containment and fire boom, technical assistance and response solutions, among others. A chart provided by the State Department shows that as of June 23 offers from six foreign countries or entities had been accepted. Fifty more offers were under consideration — including multiple offers from a single country or entity. One offer had been declined: France offered a chemical dispersant that is not approved for use in the United States

So Billy all those republicans claiming the Jones Act or Obama is hampering the clean up by not waiving the Jones Act are simply lying pieces of crap attempting to advance their political agenda using the misery afflicted on millions of Gulf Coast victims of a horrible disaster as a vehicle for their lies.


don

[chew 'n' spit]

One thing I can say, one of the worse disasters in my lifetime is occurring in the Gulf and it seems to be a hands off approach by authorities, sans the photo ops on the beach..............and political non sense................diatribe and public baiting.

[TxMusky]

Why do you continue to spout such nonsense? The one thing I can always count on is you to mindlessly post the false

LMAO boy if that isnt a huge case of pot/kettle.

[Fulltimer]

Putting a 'slant' on a story or only reporting parts of the event are misrepresentations.

Complete and total lies seem to be the normal method of the GOP and its supporters.

The problem is while the truth is reasoned and rational the lies shout it down.

Oh well, stupid shines like a lighthouse.

don

[mgrist]

The problem is while the truth is reasoned and rational the lies shout it down.

Hasn't that always been the case? Hell newspapers would be out of business were it not for that and bail outs.hehehehehehehehe