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Pipe Line Failure Shows Our Crumbling Infastructure

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Pipe Line Failure Shows Our Crumbling Infastructure

Another Failure of Bush and his Policies

from JoeUser Forums




The pipe line failure in Alaska is a good example of the crumbling infrastructure in this country. Water and sewer systems, dams, bridges, the electric grids, pipe lines are all in desperate need of replacing. Bush gave Iraq $20 Billion to help rebuilding the infrastructure in Iraq but has ignored the very same needs in America.


We grant tax cuts to people that do not need the money and start wars that do not need to be fought both of which use the resources we need to rebuild the essential structures of this country. As we all pay even more for oil because of this infrastructure failure, we should demand that we end tax cuts we can not afford, stop wars that sap our resources and begin dealing with the essential issues facing our country!
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Reply #26 from JoeUser Forums Top
I will add one more thing.

I do agree its nuts to send money to another country before making sure our citizens needs are met at home. Especially a country filled with a significant number of people who hate us.
Reply #27 from JoeUser Forums Top
The extent of the need to rebuild and in some cases replace the aging infrastructure is vast. I have read estimates that put the cost at over a TRILLION dollars. The rate at which the infrastructure is being rebuilt is far less then needed. The Electric Grid was shown this summer in the heat to be in trouble. Two years ago we had the failure of a portion of that grid but very little has happened to solve the problem. When we had the heavy rains there were several areas where dams were in danger. The age and condition of water and sewer system in our major cities is such that they could fail causing a catastrophe.

As I have pointed out we are misdirecting the resources of this country to areas that take the needed effort from where the real problems are and apply our resources to areas that do not come close to the real need. The Iraq War and the tax cuts are two that have diverted trillions of dollars that would have been far better spent. Today Bush said we are still in danger from terrorism. The truth is that we ARE doing much more to protect our country both on our own and in cooperation with other countries. However, the root cause of the terrorism, the sheer number of people willing to perpetrate this violence has increased and our policies in Iraq and in the Middle-East has caused the increase in those that would do us harm. We by our policies are making the task of protecting America MUCH harder because we are adding to the number of people that HATE us BECAUSE of our policies. Iraq and the wars in Lebanon and Gaza have not reduced the threat. They have increased the threat and made protecting us and other western countries MUCH harder.

Iraq is falling into all out civil war and the NEW enemies that will be created when the people of Lebanon see what Israel has done to that country will balloon. The REASONS why there terrorist groups are supported by the Islamic peoples are growing. The hate for America and Israel in the Moslem world in the past month has made our task to protect ourselves MUCH HARDER! We started in a BIG Hole with the Moslem world and we are digging the hole deeper as fast as possible!
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Reply #28 from JoeUser Forums Top
BP is a client of ours. I know that what happened up north is not representative of their policies. BP is the most responsible party we deal with


not much of a recommendation for your other clients then.

March 17, 2005: BP agrees to an $81-million settlement to resolve charges that it illegally released toxic gases from its Carson refinery for nearly a decade.

March 23, 2005: An explosion at a BP oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, kills 15 and injures 170. The company later agrees to pay $21.4 million for safety violations linked to the blast.

Dec. 19, 2005: An Alaska state agency sues BP and Exxon Mobil, claiming that the companies restricted the nation's supply of natural gas to boost prices. A federal judge dismisses the suit in June 2006.

March 2006: About 270,000 gallons of crude oil spill from a corroded BP pipeline near Prudhoe Bay in northern Alaska.

April 6: A BP natural gas line on Alaska's North Slope ruptures.

April 25: The Occupational Safety and Health Administration fines BP $2.4 million for safety problems at its Toledo, Ohio, plant.

June 28: Federal investigators accuse BP of secretly cornering the U.S. propane market in the winter of 2004 to illegally manipulate prices, driving up heating costs for rural consumers.

July 18: BP announces it will close 12 oil wells on Alaska's North Slope as a precaution after whistle-blowers allege that more than 50 were leaking.

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Reply #29 from JoeUser Forums Top
When I lived there some yahoo went around shooting holes in it..causing the oil to spew out.

That was Bush.
Reply #30 from JoeUser Forums Top
I do agree its nuts to send money to another country before making sure our citizens needs are met at home. Especially a country filled with a significant number of people who hate us.
---Tova

Yeah, but we do this all the time. Every time an earthquake rattles some pissant little mountain village outside of BumFuck, Egypt (where the people have likely lived for centuries, yet somehow without learning how to build their structures to withstand such things), we send money, food, medical supplies, whatever. And STILL they want to bitch about us; burn our flag, keen and wail about how unjust and evil we are. Oh, but they'll take our food, medicines and supplies. And don't forget the money.
At least in Iraq, WE had the honor of being the earthquake.
Reply #32 from JoeUser Forums Top
If this pipeline is such a bad thing how come I noticed gas prices go from $3.09 to $2.85? Now that is strange.
Reply #33 from JoeUser Forums Top
If this pipeline is such a bad thing how come I noticed gas prices go from $3.09 to $2.85? Now that is strange.
---CharlesC

Good question. It was $2.79 at Kwik King over in Steubenville, OH yesterday. If this trend continues, the damn pipeline can explode into a billion little bits, for all I care!