Warning: My Political Note for the Day

More from the right-wing LA Times on the President's speech. "There's a pipe spewing a gazillion gobs of oil into the gulf, so let's build more windmills."

By the way, has anyone done the carbon-spewing calculations on this fact: BP is flaring 30 million cubic feet of natural gas daily from the source of the leak, adding up to about 450 million cubic feet of natural gas since the containment effort started 15 days ago. That's enough gas to heat about 450,000 homes for four days.

Something tells me it would have taken a hundred years of Big Stone II to spew this much carbon. Oh, well. 

By the way, this story gets more interesting as the facts come out. The blow-out resulted from high methane gas pressure. It is the pressure of methane gas that pushes oil up a pipe. Oil companies put in blow-out protectors and valves to help prevent such blow-outs. Blow-outs were common in the early oil industry.  This particular gulf well contained about 40 percent methane, compared with about 5 percent found in typical oil deposits. This helps me understand much about the etiology of the problem.