McCain: Oil Rigs ‘Very Successfully’ Survived the Impact of Hurricanes

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2008/07/18/mccain-rigs/

Yesterday, Nancy Pfotenhauer, Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) senior policy adviser, claimed that she had been “misinformed” when she falsely stated that Hurricanes Katrina and Rita “did not spill a drop of oil.” Today, McCain made another “misinformed” argument, claiming that oil rigs in the Gulf of Mexico “have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes”:

Q: I’ve been listening to your comments around renewable resources – solar, tide, and wind – you’ve talked a lot about that, but you keep peppering your comments with offshore drilling. But I’m not sure what you think the impact on our environment is based on that.

A: Keep the microphone. I’m aware that off the coast of Louisiana and Texas there are oil rigs, as we well know, and those rigs have survived, very successfully, the impacts of hurricanes – hurricane Katrina as far as Louisiana is concerned.

McCain is wrong. According to press reports, Hurricanes Katrina and Rita “tore through the Gulf of Mexico’s offshore oil and gas fields, toppling production platforms, setting rigs adrift and rupturing pipelines.” The U.S. Minerals Management Service reported that the hurricanes totally destroyed 113 offshore oil platforms.

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photos at the link

Enough with the blatant lies, McShame.

And remember this? Cheney was so concerned about starting a pipeline up again in face of shortages that he pulled power crews off their recovery work to restore power to the pipeline? One particular pipeline?

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/151759.php

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Shortly after Hurricane Katrina roared through South Mississippi knocking out electricity and communication systems, the White House ordered power restored to a pipeline that sends fuel to the Northeast.

That order - to restart two power substations in Collins that serve Colonial Pipeline Co. - delayed efforts by at least 24 hours to restore power to two rural hospitals and a number of water systems in the Pine Belt.

At the time, gasoline was in short supply across the country because of Katrina. Prices increased dramatically and lines formed at pumps across the South.

"I considered it a presidential directive to get those pipelines operating," said Jim Compton, general manager of the South Mississippi Electric Power Association - which distributes power that rural electric cooperatives sell to consumers and businesses.

Later Compton is quoted as saying: "We were led to believe a national emergency was created when the pipelines were shut down."

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So don't tell me no lies about oil rigs, pipelines, and hurricanes.

[Ian David]

1. McCain's a fucking liar

REMINDER: Katrina oil spills may be among worst on record (113 offshore platforms destroyed)
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[Marblehead]

2. liar

someone has to call him on this, yea right:shrug:

[gratuitous]

3. Yeah, not a drop was spilled, McThuselah

That's why gas prices soared in the aftermath of Katrina and Rita. Because all those rigs came through unscathed. Ri-i-i-ight.

Of course, neither the perfumed courtiers of the press nor the pampered elites in Congress pump their own gas, so none of them have any personal recollection of the first time they pumped a $35 tank of gas. Or a $50 tank. Or a $100 tank. Someone else plugs in a credit card for them, someone else covers the expense, and they never see a basic fact of life that 80% or more of us deal with every week.

[HysteryDiagnosis]

4. He doesn't use a computer, can the man read even??

http://www.mms.gov/ooc/press/2006/press0501.htm

Table 1 – Pipelines Damaged by Hurricane Katrina

Table 2 – Pipelines Damaged by Hurricane Rita

Table 3 – Platforms Destroyed by Hurricane Katrina

[hootinholler]

5. Didn't that trollop take his keys away?

I think we should refer to Ms McCain as trollop from now on.

-Hoot

[11 Bravo]

7. I beg to differ.

If "cunt" is good enough for her husband, it should be good enough for us.

[hootinholler]

8. Ah, but we can ask him how's the trollop and it will get air time.

Double plus is it will piss him off no end.

Triple plus if he strokes out on the stump.

-Hoot

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

6. Just like the Ninth Ward did

McSame lies again, no MSM reporting of it. Nothing to see here, move on.

[RNdaSilva]

9. McCain, and/or his staff, assumes...

That a segment of the electorate are computer illiterate, can't read and/or hear, don't keep up with the news or are, in general, illiterate.

Assumes?

That is McCain's base.