Exactly how and why the rig blew without any notice.....rumor mill

For the 8000 fcking time, the SWAT team was not sent to the gulf. Read a little, learn a little. It was industry experts from the government, not the police people with pretty guns and clothes.

Also, the companies are not going to discuss causes at all as this will all be hashed out later by lawyers fighting over the billions of dollars.
You can hear the interview by the guy on the rig and read other stories and it is quite evident they took a kick from a huge amount of pressure that they weren't expecting.

i dont believe it........but ask someone in the know and people are scared right now what could come out of this.....

Rumors are rumors, and timing is everything. What I find interesting is that OB had just announced more leases for exploration/production would be allowed in the Gulf. This is not a popular move in Florida beach-land which depends on pristine white-sand beaches and gorgeous sunsets for much of its tourist-weighted income.

That an explosion of this magnitude would occur at this time, with the accompanying spill, seems almost a thing out of a Clancy novel.

Conspiracy or coincidence, I'll bet there will soon be a bunch of "thriller" novels or made-for-tv stories that follow this story line, or a similar one based in other, more land-locked sands where there are more camels than tourists.

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it wasnt a conspiracy.

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Read with comprehension. I didn't say it was a conspiracy. I said rumors are rumors, and timing is everything -- and it is interesting to consider the background noise (like Obama's not universally popular approval of new oil exploration in the Gulf of Mexico and given some hostile interests in the Middle East) that this timing could lead to something unexpected. And then I said with some literary effort, it could become a Clancy-like thriller or a tv movie thing.

I just find the timing interesting. I am not ruling conspiracy in or out. Simply noting the interesting timing...