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From: brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com [mailto:brin-l-boun...@mccmedia.com] On
Behalf Of Jo Anne
Sent: Monday, June 14, 2010 7:36 PM
To: Killer Bs (David Brin et al) Discussion
Subject: Re: BP update
>Dan -- Thanks for the reference and the analysis. I find myself *so
>an
Dan -- Thanks for the reference and the analysis. I find myself *so angry*
about the situation, but then end up just feeling impotent. It was good to
hear your opinion, especially about the safety omissions.
Amities,
Jo Anne
evens...@hevanet.com
>US usage is around 20 M bbl/day, world production around 80 M bbl/day.
>If this thing gets loose in the sea, BPs disaster would seem like
>nothing. Better to hope it can't be done.
I raised that question with Gautam, who is a former member of Brin-L and
happens to be a published author in the
I have a subtantial part of the List Archives from Day 1 till roughly 6
years ago (back when any day with less than 100 messages was considered a
"slow day" ) still available off-line, thanks to my attempt years ago
to set up the Great Brin-L Archive. I estimate that archive to be 90-95%
complete.
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 11:00 AM, "Dan Minette" wrote:
> Earlier I had reported that the events in the Gulf were unprecedented, a
> "black swan". Since then, folks in the oil patch are still incredulous, but
> are increasingly upset with BP breaking the rules of the game.
snip (excellent mater
We're now almost 2 months into this disaster. I was wondering what folks
are currently thinking about this event. I'm especially curious whether Dan
M still thinks this is a black swan event or something more mundane. Is BP
really that unlucky in that everything they tried didn't work? Or wer