Tuesday, July 28, 2015

I am sure I don't have to tell Hillary Clinton how to run her campaign. I love the new video, by the way.

Hillary Clinton should not feel obligated to answer questions about Republican priorities. The facts are plain, the Keystone XL to oil export and the like are obsolete economic priorities.

The Republican rhetoric only reflects how out of touch they are with the real world. We are seeing movements in mergers of oil field suppliers and a continued fluctuations in oil prices.

There is seismic activity at fracking sites, the land of the USA is in peril. The USA continues to be at the top of the list for greenhouse gas emissions and methane is rising now because the fracking industry doesn't care what happens to the emissions of methane. They won't spend money on industrial infrastructure and chronically pollute the troposphere.

I don't care if CEOs come out and state it is stupid to allow emissions of methane because they are losing money, the facts are the CEOs don't care. I would think the tragedy in the Gulf of Mexico would be enough to portray the standards of the petroleum industry. They don't care about human life, so what makes anyone think they care about the environment? 

Currently Dutch Royal Shell is attempting to place oil platforms in the North Pacific thousands of miles from their headquarters without any feasible support close enough to rescue employees from these platforms. Yesterday, one of their icebreakers had a hole ripped out of it's outer shell. This ship is vital to the production personnel on these platforms. Now, that the Icebreaker is in for repair there is no support for the attempts to drill along the Aleutian Islands that are foreign owned. 

The entire idea of drilling in the Pacific is wayward. The Pacific Ocean is vast and has a far larger surface area than the Atlantic Ocean. As well, the deepest trenches on Earth are in the Pacific Ocean. What does that mean? That means the Pacific is far more turbulent and unpredictable than the Atlantic. The wave motion might be characterized as a difference between a bath tub and an Olympic sized swimming pool and that doesn't account for the earthquakes and volcanic eruptions within "The Ring of Fire." 

We know the devastation of a Ring of Fire earthquake from the Japan episode.

The entire petroleum industry is obsolete. The technologies are as old as the land they drill. They say fracking is state of the art. Really? That doesn't speak well of the industry and it's R&D. 

Let's just put it this way, the industry's greed has shot itself in the foot and they don't care if it's bleeding methane. The balance sheets won't permit for the cost of health care insurance.