~Associated Press
A “black box” can reveal why an airplane crashed or how fast a car was going in the instant before an accident. Yet there are no records of a critical safety test supposedly performed during the fateful hours before the Deepwater Horizon oil rig exploded in the Gulf of Mexico.
They went down with the rig.
While some data were being transmitted to shore for safekeeping right up until the April 20 blast, officials from Transocean, the rig owner, told Congress that the last seven hours of its data are missing and that all written logs were lost in the explosion.
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That's because every year about this time, there's always a refinery problem, an oil tanker accident or some other bullshit cause for jacking the gas prices. It might just be political theatre for public consumption, but Obama's making all kinds of noises like he's not going to put up with it.
ReplyDeleteWhile I'm not ruling out the obscure possibility of "Earth First"/some other eco-terrorist hit, most my money's riding on a corporate inside job.
did you watch 20-20 or 60 minutes always oonfuse them...on tv tonight..had a guy that was on the rig and telling allllll sorts of good stuff.
ReplyDeleteTed - So many things turn out to be fake, it's got me punchy. I'm like, yeah that's your cover story, but what really happened?
ReplyDeleteYDG - I missed it, as usual.