The video Exxon oil co and The GOP DON'T want you to see. Oil flowing down residential street

[Tx4obama]

Related post: http://theimmoralminority.blogspot.com/2013/03/the-video-exxon-oil-company-and.html

[mindwalker_i]

1. It looks like the oil is giving them a slidewalk

Sorry, probably a crude joke.

[Riverman100]

10. oh you're slick

went to the well one too many times

[Lochloosa]

16. ....

[Divernan]

35. This spill was Canadian tar sands crude, nearly impossible to clean up.

http://insideclimatenews.org/news/20130330/exxon-confirms-ruptured-pipeline-ark-carried-canadian-dilbit
The 20-inch Pegasus pipeline runs 858 miles from Patoka, Ill. to Nederland, Texas. Engelmann said the line was carrying Wabasca Heavy crude from western Canada when it ruptured.

Wabasca Heavy is a type of diluted bitumen, or dilbit, from Alberta's tar sands region, according to the Canadian Crude Quality Monitoring Program, an industry source that provides data on different types of Canadian oil.

Because dilbit contains bitumen—a type of crude oil that's heavier (50 to 70 times heavier!)than most conventional crude oil—it can be harder to clean up when it spills into water. A 2010 spill in Michigan, which released a million gallons of dilbit in the Kalamazoo River and has cost pipeline operator Enbridge more than $820 million, continues to challenge scientists and regulators as they work on removing submerged oil from the riverbed.


A 2010 spill in Kalamazoo, MI, has STILL not been cleaned up, despite monumental efforts. This link is to a report one year after (2011), and explains why tar sands oil is so much more difficult, in part impossible, to clean up. These folks in Arkansas can kiss that street goodbye. No home insurer or mortgage broker will touch those properties.
http://switchboard.nrdc.org/blogs/aswift/kalamazoo_one_year_later_anato.html#.UVig9qx8gjo.facebook

[rocktivity]

41. It's too oily in the day

for these kinds of jokes.


rocktivity

[lexw]

70. :D

[CaliforniaPeggy]

2. Let's make sure everyone sees this.

Awful.

Fucking awful.

[annabanana]

3. (Worth sharing to FB & twitter), . .k&r. . n/t

[freshwest]

4. Thanks for posting. Another DUer posted pictures and I knew the fumes would be awful.

He asked people to download the pictures because the news in that area would pull them soon. Just like the BP photos, removed as if it never happened. This is good because he uploaded it and the content belongs to him. We should work to see these get national attention because the news no longer works in the public interest in any way whatsoever!

[Volaris]

5. 10 bucks says Rachel will run with it by Wednesday next week.

not to worry. THIS one isn't out in the middle of the Gulf of Mexico, where a lot of people don't live.

For-Profit is fine, as long as it ISN'T encroaching our preceptions of "The American Dream". With the posting of that video, that little, small-town, All-American-neighborhood just got Public Support to file the biggest goddamned Class-Action lawsuit in the History of America, as far as I'm concerened, and Exxon's PR people probably KNOW IT.

Even if it doesn't come to that, I bet EVERY ONE of those homowners now thinks Solar Panels and Chevy Volt's would have been a better way to go.

Exxon's going to be well and truly fucked on this one, Thanks Internet=)

[freshwest]

7. Yup, the internet will have to take care of it. I remember the days and weeks of coverage of the

EXXON Valdez spill in Alaska - it was gut wrenching and galvanized the public to demand changes.

That didn't last for long as the Koch brothers kept on working their way into the body politic and the RW got hold of the mainstream media.

This is what we have left to us.

Go internet!!

[meow2u3]

21. Maybe we should force the Koch Bros. to drink the spilled oil

[freshwest]

23. Nah, ain't gonna happen. They own the best water, too. Pollution is their 'gift' to us.

[white cloud]

8. Drill Baby, Drill

"I would like for my life to get back to normal"

K&R

[freshwest]

9. Her life was never normal... Just sayin'

She still blabbers like the rest of the reptilian shapeshifters... Or zombies, take your pick.

[Plucketeer]

67. Maybe these home owners would sell their properties to her.

Imagine buying lands that you KNOW are heavy with crude!

[NYC_SKP]

6. Interesting that they seem to have taped this in a vehicle that runs on petroleum.

That part always makes me LOL.

Prius driver here, 140,000 miles, there wasn't an electric vehicle to be had when I bought it in 2007.

There are now, however!

[cliffordu]

11. The way you drive I'm surprised you aren't on a fucking bicycle.

[NYC_SKP]

13. I sold my fucking bicycle.

It kept breaking out of the yard and fucking the neighbors' bicycles!

Fucker!

[cliffordu]

31. Well....

YOU SHOULDA HAD YOUR BICYCLE FIXED, GODDAMMIT.

They ARE like horses, ya know.....

[intheflow]

18. I thought it was interesting that he thought his house was okay on the other side of the street.

Because dirt isn't porous or anything, there's no way a major oil spill flowing down your street could affect your property values or anything.

[NYC_SKP]

20. Right? LOL. I think they worried about who would clean it up.

Oil on asphalt, which is made from OIL, is actually a pain in the ass.

[pretzel4gore]

43. henry ford built electric cars!

chk out 'who killed the electric car' documentary etc....it mentions that several companies were building electric cars way back when. Indeed, the electric forklift has been a staple of industry for decades. Unfortunately, the oil industry needed a market, and ... well you get the pic! Btw, in 1890's one could travel from New yerk city to florida on CITY TRANSIT TRAINS! and they were all private enterprise!
If we knew the truth about what the moneypigs have done to create easy profits (from oil found in public grounds!) there'd be a goddam revolution. Oh wait. THERE was a revolution! In 1796! and again in 1917! but we crushed them working fellers, yes we did!

[NYC_SKP]

44. I've got the DVD, excellent documentary. Also have "revenge of electric car" but havent' watched it

Rudolf Diesel's design was meant for biofuel, peanut or other oils, IIRC, but turned out to work on petroleum fuel.

Diesel!

[truth2power]

46. With all due respect, SKP, that's a fallacious argument...

Some of us don't have a choice. I would LOVE to have a Prius, but it's way beyond my income.

I couldn't even afford the payments.

Furthermore, if there were any real impetus to develop a public transportation system in this country, I would certainly use it wherever possible.

[NYC_SKP]

48. Oh, you're right.

I was just in a snarky mood.

I think most of us do the best we can with what we have.

[truth2power]

49. No problem. I just feel so helpless most of the time...

I don't know what's going to become of us.

[NYC_SKP]

50. People don't know the half of it (our petroleum infrastructure at risk of failure):

There are over 43,000 miles of pipeline under water, in the Gulf alone.

And 50,686 individual bore holes or wells, in the Gulf alone.

Some of this infrastructure is over 60 years old.

[CrispyQ]

58. Psychopaths, hiding behind corporate entities, making billions by raping & pillaging our planet.

When I think what that area must have been like 200 years ago, my heart aches. What is it about being the dominate species & stewardship that we don't understand?

[Smilo]

64. Wow you missed the point

this is about failure to maintain pipelines and loss of oil. Why is this oil going under someone's division? Why did this pipeline fail?

Stop being smug about what you drive - we should be pulling together demanding better maintenance, etc. of these types of pipelines.

[fredzachmane]

12. Irony

Guy taping oil spill (using camera made with oil products) while driving car (fueled by oil product) then uploads it to youtube (using computer, cables, etc made with oil products)

[rdharma]

15. How would YOU tape this spill, fredzachmane?

Or would you rather that the environmental mess was just quietly ignored?

Oh, BTW..... welcome! I see you're new here.

[Trajan]

29. Just to make your tableau complete ....

I've made you a cocktail of 30 wt motor oil, with a gasoline shot and some tar balls as a garnish ...

Drink up, purveyor of the all encompassing petroleum life of which we must never dissent ....

[hatrack]

37. Wow, nice catch! Oh, the hypocrisy!

Meaning that if you don't live in a cave and make fire by rubbing two sticks together, you can't comment on energy or environmental policy, or, maybe on a river of oil running down the street in your neighborhood?

I'll be sure to keep that in mind.

[lame54]

38. yes, they were made with oil...

not spilled oil

[IADEMO2004]

14. Pushing pipeline is keystone to Terry's D.C. career.

I shit you not headline front page of today's Omaha World Herald. Nebraska Congressman Lee Terry(R) water boy for Keystone XL.

Story about his work pushing the pipeline. Sorry the story is print only. I checked for a link and haven't found one. I had just watched this video this morning and then walked to the mailbox to get the Sunday paper and saw the story. Poor sad Republican happy little story washed away in a flood of crude oil.

Hope they win the battle keeping it out of the lake.

[UnrepentantLiberal]

17. It's the new normal.

Hey, BP trashed the gulf coast with no consequences. What's a little oil in a neighborhood?

[jerseyjack]

19. Not to worry. Oil running down the catch basin is a federal crime if

the water ends up in a body of water. We can be sure the E.P.A. is on it.

[RufusTFirefly]

27. Oh yeah. Hordes of EPA agents are massing at the Arkansas border even as we speak.

Meanwhile, the President is slipping into his comfortable shoes.

[Dryvinwhileblind]

61. Nothing to see here, folks, move along now...

...wait, hold it, SECURITY?!

[AnotherMcIntosh]

30. Except for marijuana laws, does the Federal govt enforce the laws anymore?

[truth2power]

47. I think about that a lot. Seems like the only laws the Feds are willing to enforce

are those related to MJ.

Pathetic, isn't it?

[NBachers]

22. Good to see the crews there, mobilized to do the cleanup in emergency mode

[James48]

24. Where is that Sham-Wow guy when you need him?

Sham=Wow! Cleans up messes in a jiffy!

[RufusTFirefly]

25. Boo hoo. Freedom isn't free, Morans!

It takes energy to be the greatest Nation that history has ever known.

As the great Buck Turgidson once put it, "I'm not saying we're not going to get our hair mussed," but as the great Madeleine Albright once said, "we think the price is worth it."

Sorry Arkansas. Get over it. Look forward. We need our oil and everyone has to share in the sacrifice.

U-S-A! U-S-A!


(Do I really need to add this? )

[zentrum]

26. Isn't this really dangerous....

...in terms of fire too? Some teen with a lit cigarette, or a spark from an electric lawnmower?

[Hassin Bin Sober]

28. Black gold! Texas tea!

[bpollen]

32. To be frank...

Holy ship! That is fargin' outrageous!

But, that being said, I think that I would rather see housing developments get hit with oil spills than farmland (Yeah, Keystone!) Most of what we eat is not produced in housing subdivisions.

[Make7]

33. It's hard for a stuggling industry to enact effective safety measures.

Perhaps the government would be willing to give them some subsidies...

[AndyA]

34. Let's rush to get that Keystone Pipeline approved now. No environmental danger, right?

With all the oil company mishaps lately, it seems to me the oil companies are a lot *less* responsible than so many seem to think they are. (Including President Obama, who said the environmental dangers of Keystone are exaggerated, as well as the benefits of the pipeline.)

[ReRe]

36. My question...

K&R

... Is HazMat cleaning this up?

[sinkingfeeling]

39. Can't you just wait for the XL to rupture?

[raouldukelives]

40. It's even more heinous with the banner ad encouraging me to "Invest in oil!"

Yeah, no thanks. I'd rather not be sharing in the ownership of this.

[Crowman1979]

42. Wish we could bus in some Teabaggers and show them their glorious free-market system at work.

[BlueToTheBone]

51. Well, they actually live in that neighborhood.

And of course, since it's happening to them, we can assume they'll be screaming for help.

[Glaisne]

45. How do you like

your tar sands oil now tea baggers!! Maybe we should call you oil baggers!!

[ZRT2209]

52. How DARE this neighborhood steal this corporation's product??!!! It's an outrage!

[Paul E Ester]

53. Great video. thanks...nt

[valerief]

54. Soon, I guess we'll be seeing a crop of newstories saying how petroleum is good for your lawn. nt

[limpyhobbler]

55. kick

[WillyT]

56. K & R !!!

[CrispyQ]

57. Big oil has power without responsibility. Maybe now people will start to wake up?

This is not some rural area with a few houses spread out here & there. This is a neighborhood that a huge number of Americans actually relate to. Will they wake up & realize "It can happen to you."

[Initech]

59. Oil is the real root of all evil.

Evil men own it. Evil men control it. It destroys cities and whole ecosystems. We fight our wars because the people who control it need more.

[Cleita]

60. Those residents need to make a class action suit against Exxon ASAP.

People need to do that across the nation. We have ghost town south of where I live here where there was such a leak forty years ago. God knows how many more there are. It's time to nationalize all the oil in this country. It's a national resource that is sometimes going to foreign producers and definitely to a few Wall Street speculators. It should be owned by the people and the profits used for the people. The people can also regulate it so those spills and pollution become fewer and rare.

[Kurovski]

62. the place is now a toxic dump.

people who stay will find many, many health problems. Extremely toxic crap.


Fuck Exxon. what the fuck can we fucking do here? I mean, is there ANYONE who can pay politically for all this ongoing destruction? Isn't every single politician owned by oil?

[AdHocSolver]

63. Remember the good old days when all we had to worry about was...

...Leaded gasoline, lead paint, DDT, secondary cigarette smoke, CFC's, and asbestos lined brakes.

Modern industry -- bringing new excitement into your life.

[humbled_opinion]

65. What will it take to end the madness...

Rant On:

You know the environmental movement was kickstarted in the 1970's when the countries awareness level was raised during the Cayahoga river fire... Rivers burning made for great publicity in favor of environmental issues...... It is way past time that the national consciousness be reawakened to environmental concerns... If images from the Exxon Valdez Oil disaster the BP oil mega disaster and now rivers of oil flooding neighborhoods won't do it, that I don't know what will....

Will it take a great sinkhole collapse, of an entire community thousands dead, where fracking causes such unstable earth that it swallows up whole towns?

Will it take a lake or river exploding from the build up of natural gas polluting the water?

Will it take the Island nation of the Maldives to disappear forever into the ocean because of sea level rise due to ice cap melt? Or a mega Hurricane produced from the overheated earth?

Sadly the earth has been warning us for quite sometime that something is about to give....but you know now that I am on this tangent, what really irks me is the fact that so called conservatives at least those in the middleclass, should be natural supporters of environmental issues, they clamour on about the debt and leaving a nation of debt to our children and theirs but what about the earth leaving a dead or dying planet seems like it should trump the debt IMHO....

ENOUGH!...

Rant Off...

[rhett o rick]

66. Most likely massive civi l dis obedience. nm

[grahamhgreen]

68. Kick. Thnx Tx

[lexw]

69. Posted on FB. This is awful!

[barbtries]

71. i just checked MSNBC.

not a word about this could i find.

[Tx4obama]

72. The new Chris Hayes show on MSNBC covered the oil spill as the opening segment (8pm ET)

And here's a link on MSNBC re the spill: http://tv.msnbc.com/2013/04/01/is-the-arkansas-pipeline-spill-a-glimpse-into-our-oil-soaked-future/

[soldierant]

73. Benzene - Isn't that like

having a dry cleaning plant explode in your living room? Oh wait - I think it used to be used in spot removal and dry cleaning but was found to be too dangerous?