Dangerous Fossil Fuel Explosion, Fire Force 1,000 From Their Homes, Releases Toxic...

[NNadir]

Cloud of Dangerous Fossil Fuel Waste into the Atmosphere.

San Juan, Puerto Rico (CNN) -- Hundreds of firefighters battled a blaze at a Puerto Rico oil storage facility Sunday that forced 1,000 residents from their homes.

Jose Figueroa Sancha, chief of police in Puerto Rico, told CNN that authorities expect to have the fire, now in its third day, contained by 6 p.m. In all, 350 firefighters were working to quash the flames, with about 1,000 police officers helping with security and traffic flow around the area, Sancha said.

One oil tank remained on fire Sunday morning.

Five tanks were burning Saturday night. An additional 12 tanks were smoking, but posed no danger. Four had burned themselves out and collapsed.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/americas/10/25/puerto.rico.explosion/index.html">CNN: Uncontrolled Fire.

I wonder if all the anti-oil activists here, myself excepted, will be obsessively referring to this accident for the next 25 years. Doya think? Nah...

[Warpy]

1. Interesting

From the article: "A spray-painted message on the tunnels, less than three miles apart, said: "Boom, fire, RIP, Gulf, Soul, ACNF." Caribbean Petroleum owns the Gulf Oil brand, but Rodriguez said he did not know what or who ACNF is.

"Investigators are not discounting any possibilities, said Orlando Felix, an ATF agent in Puerto Rico."

Anything involving multiple storage tanks had to have been human caused. Lightning might have caused one tank to go up, maybe tanks on either side as it burned, but the fire department could have protected adjacent tanks.

Various counts I've seen have been nine to eleven tanks involved immediately. They'd better find these folks fast, this is a fairly sophisticated attack.

[NV Whino]

2. Gee, I dunno

We're still tlalking about the Exxon Valdez. Whaddaya think?

[joshcryer]

3. I probably will. I saw it as it was happening via webcams and chatting with my friends there.

The fire has been going on for days.

[HamdenRice]

4. No pro-nuke fundy has ever give a damn about fossil fuel fires

Not one, ever in the history of pro-nuke fundy frothing at the mouth. The reason? Because nukular power is run by exactly the same cabal of nuke/coal power corporations. Therefore every single supporter of nukular power is also a supporter of dirty, carbon-based, global warming causing fossil fuel power. Every single one.

I note with contempt that all over the world, pro-nuke/pro-coal fundies are celebrating that this fire has broken out in PR precisely because a fuel fire means greater demand for replacement fuel, which means for profit for the pro-nuke/pro-coal corporate cabal, and more opportunities for insane nuke/coal propaganda by pro-nuke/pro-coal fundies.

[NNadir]

5. Not very original, are you Hammy, boy? You can't think for yourself, and can't even have a writing

style of your own.

In fact, fundie boy, speaking only for myself, I can refer to a program for phasing out dangerous fossil fuels that I wrote years ago:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2007/6/17/19109/0486">The Utility of Light: Getting Real with the Existing Energy Infrastructure.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2006/11/24/195214/27">Banning Oil: Dimethyl ether, Hydrogen, Nuclear Power and Motor Fuel for Cars and Trucks.


On the other hand, Hammy boy, or sock puppet or whatever it is you are - I couldn't care less - your claim that pro-nuclear activists accept your indifference to dangerous fossil fuels is one or more of the following: Ignorance, misrepresentation, character assassination, making stuff up, or any of a series of logical fallacies in which the anti-nuke cults routinely engage because they can't think, can't reason, can't do science, can't read science, can't do math and can't calculate.

http://www.nizkor.org/features/fallacies/">Dumb Fundie Anti-Nuke School of Witless Rhetoric.

Nuclear energy need not be perfect to be vastly superior to all the stuff that all the anti-nukes and their sock-puppets couldn't care less about. It nearly needs to be vastly superior to all the stuff you don't care about, and, happily it is.

The fact is, fundie boy, I can refer to hundreds of writings on the internet about dangerous fossil fuel disasters and um, you can't.

Have a nice oblivious fundamentalist day.