John Kerry tells us the truth: We can’t quit offshore drilling

Now we are not going to stop drilling in the Gulf tomorrow, folks. Let’s be realistic. There are 48,000 wells out there. One of them went sour. About 30 percent of our transportation fuel comes from the Gulf. You think Americans are going to suddenly stop driving to work tomorrow? Do you think people are going to stop driving the trucks to deliver the goods to the department stores? Not going to happen.
Sen. John Kerry • Pointing out the ugly truth about the oil spill, which is that, put into perspective, we really need to be offshore drilling to keep up with energy demands. Put THAT in your pipe and smoke it, crazy dreaming environmentalists. That dream of yours? It’s in a pipe. A pipe distributing oil. source

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Oh man, this whole time we’ve been trying to stop SEAWATER from gushing into our OIL. Stupid Terry was holding the diagram upside down.
A tweet by @BPGlobalPR • Which, in the span of 57 tweets, has managed to capture the imagination of 15,000 Twitter users worldwide with an often hilarious parody of one of the worst oil spills on record, and the major oil company’s inept response. We wish we could be so hilarious that @Alyssa_Milano says that our tweets are awesome. And also so that we’d respond like this: “We’ve been told @Alyssa_Milano loves our tweets. I guess that officially makes us the boss. #bpcares #bpistheboss.” A blog can dream, can’t it? source

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Rand Paul was simply making a point that every time an issue arises, the automatic response from the Democrats is not to find out what went wrong and why, but to propose more government, more regulation and more taxes.
Republican National Senatorial Committee spokesman Brian Walsh • Regarding what Rand Paul was trying to say when he criticized Obama for being “un-American in his criticism of business,” specifically with the Gulf oil spill. (Oh, and trying to save Paul’s butt.) We actually understood this the first time. We just think it’s wrong and shows a deep misunderstanding of why regulation is important, especially in the wake of this oil spill, where it’s seemingly clear that the government regulatory machine was asleep on the job. Surprising thing we just noticed: Reason Magazine’s site hasn’t even mentioned the new Rand Paul controversy, even though they’ve brought up the Civil Rights Act thing today. Dudes, the silence says more than you think. source

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5,000 number of barrels BP said it was recovering per day yesterday
2,200 number of barrels the company says it’s recovering per day today source

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10 miles the length of one of the oil plumes, which is also a mile wide
30% the decrease in oxygen in some parts of the ocean due to the oil spill source

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26 May 2010 12:27