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May not sound hard to put a 6-inch tube into a 20-inch pipe but try doing it using robots 5,000 feet below the surface with the pipe spewing oil. it's a tall order and they may be tall tales. independent experts today suggest this spill could be five to ten times larger than we've been led to believe. in fact it could be equal to three or four exxon valdez or an exxon valdez spill every four days. the truth is we don't have any way of knowing. the coast guard doesn't either. one of the questions we're asking on line is whether you believe these government estimates and these british petroleum ...

Means when they say safe. when they keep assuring us that offshore drilling in deep water is so safe now. the big blowout preventer that didn't work in 2001, a transocean report showed there could be as many as 260 failure possibilities in that piece of equipment. that's supposed to be the failsafe if all else fails, remember, and it's got 260 different possible fail points. the blowout preventer's hydraulic system did fail, meaning it was physically incapable of doing its job, which was crimping off the pipe spewing oil. it also has a deadman switch if other systems fail. that deadman switch ...

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